cawacko
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Fair enough. I can understand your personal POV that the word has been so badly coopted as to only have that meaning for you.
Like i said, i am fine with the term being 'taboo' to use for that reason, but the definition is not if applied to certain persons like Candace Owens. That is my point. This is true of people like her "...a black person who understands they can receive benefit from white racists by being the face of their racist views, denigrate other blacks, in a way that will gain them favor and benefit from the racists.'...", and if you say... yes agreed and you can say that but just don't use the term Uncle Tom', fine. I get it.
What i am arguing is that it not racist nor wrong to properly identify what Candace and those like her are doing.
I don't know if this is an apt analogy but it popped into my head and that's the word thug. We can look at certain people's behavior and based on the dictionary definition, say that individual is a thug. But we also know people use the term to describe large groups of people (often/usually black) and do it in a very negative way (coming close at times to being an old school n*word equivalent).
I'm not saying that's an exact analogy with Uncle Tom but applying the dictionary definition of some words, while accurate, is not always how the word is used by large segments of the population if that makes sense.