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Does ‘anti-racism’ also mean slurring black conservatives?

30 April 2021

6:18 AM

30 April 2021

6:18 AM

The latest target for online mobs is South Carolina’s Republican senator Tim Scott. His ‘crime’ is apparently being a black conservative who gave a thoughtful televised response to President Biden’s address to a joint session of Congress. The mob responded by calling him ‘Uncle Tim’, a none-too-clever play on the old racial epithet, ‘Uncle Tom’.

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