Is Uncle Tom A Racial Slur?

It’ll take some air out of the room, to be sure.

It is used in a derogatory fashion to demean someone in a racial manner.

Go ask a black person and report back to us.

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Is Uncle Tom A Racial Slur?

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It depends on the context.

If a liberal uses it to describe an African American that does not support the democratic party, then not it is not.

If a nonliberal uses it (even if that person is referring to his uncle whose name is Tom), then yes it is a racial slur.

I think at its heart it's more just an insult similar to "sell-out."

There's really nothing inherently racial about its underlying meaning, but of course it originated from slavery in the US, so it is racially loaded.

You could call Jews who didn't actively oppose Hitler something similar, and it has nothing to do with semites qua semites.

And of course this, but my expectations of humanity are significantly lower:

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Perhaps, if you are culturally illiterate. If you read the novel and were objective the comparison should be a compliment. Uncle Tom is essentially an allegorical Christ in the book.

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Holy shite, this board.

I'm torn. Since it is almost exclusively used by blacks against other blacks, it seems more a direct character assassination than strictly "racial" to me. However, as the race of the recipient is, more or less, a requirement, I can see why someone would consider it racial.

There is no question it is a slur.

You can't talk about "Uncle Toms"; that's black on black stuff......rules man