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Re:GitHub, fuck your name change by ZephyrBlu on Wednesday March 17, 2021 @05:22AM (#26488461)
> grovelling comments from a house-type here

?!?

Re:GitHub, fuck your name change by edbob on Wednesday March 17, 2021 @07:04AM (#26489329)
I'm very familiar with this as I spent 10 years in prison. The term "Uncle Tom" is not used by black men in prison. They say "house n-word" (except not n-word of course). It's about the most offensive term possible.

It basically means a "house slave" that was well-treated and is therefore sympathetic to or on the side of the white man. The anytonym is "field n-word", a slave that worked in the fields, which I probably heard more often as people sometimes identify as that term. E.g., if a guy is talking to his buddy who has a nice ("cadillac") job situation, he might say "I'm just a field n-word."

Re:GitHub, fuck your name change by ZephyrBlu on Wednesday March 17, 2021 @07:16AM (#26489446)
I have heard/seen the phrase before, I was just very surprised to see it thrown out in this situation.