> James Heartfield wrote:
>> It wasn't that bad a choice of words, and a reasonable political
>> point. Uncle Tom to the corporations that run the system, he said.
>> It might sound like race-baiting, if you are of a mind to read it
>> that way, but I don't think it was.
>
> Are you joking or clueless?
> Perhaps as a Brit you don't realize that calling Obama an Uncle Tom
> is hugely ugly?
> Maybe it has different social baggage in the UK?
> Not as bad a ni**er but not too far off either.
And it overshadows Ralph's bizarre contrast of Uncle Tom with Uncle Sam. I thought Uncle Sam was an imperialist. When did he become such a good guy?
Doug