# "Uncle Tom" in other minority groups **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 7, 2012, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uncle-tom-in-other-minority-groups/627559 "2012-07-07T22:47:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Nars\_Glinley](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nars_glinley/32/8177_2.png) [@Nars\_Glinley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nars_Glinley)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2012, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uncle-tom-in-other-minority-groups/627559/21 "2012-07-09T20:23:59Z")
“Rightly-abled”? ---
**Author:** ![Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/f04885/32.png) [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qin_Shi_Huangdi)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2012, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uncle-tom-in-other-minority-groups/627559/22 "2012-07-10T06:50:08Z")
> [@kunilou](#): > > I think it also helps to remember that one of the prime movers in getting the Americans with Disabilities Act through Congress in the first place was Bob Dole – who generally isn’t considered “insufficiently conservative” by anyone. > > And the Asian-American equivalent of an Uncle Tom is a “banana” – yellow on the outside, white inside. The Amerindian term is Chief Tom and the Hispanic term is Tio Taco. BTW “banana” (also twinkie) is an equivalent of “oreos” not “Uncle Toms”. ---
**Author:** ![gatorslap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gatorslap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gatorslap)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2012, 11:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uncle-tom-in-other-minority-groups/627559/23 "2012-07-10T11:02:54Z")
> [@the\_apples\_fell](#): > > I am somewhere in between “Liberal” and “Conservative” and every time I voice a viewpoint that comes off more Conservative, because I am gay my other LGBT friends act as if I am betraying their interests and my own people. > > I don’t think people should be limited to one ideology solely because of a factor they cannot control. It’s wrong to tell someone because they are X, they must think Y. “Just because I’m black, doesn’t mean I can’t support the KKK” ---
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Mouse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mighty_mouse/32/7776_2.png) [@Mighty\_Mouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Mouse)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2012, 11:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uncle-tom-in-other-minority-groups/627559/24 "2012-07-10T11:04:52Z")
> [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](#): > > The Amerindian term is Chief Tom and the Hispanic term is Tio Taco. BTW “banana” (also twinkie) is an equivalent of “oreos” not “Uncle Toms”. Coconut for Indian/Pakistani/Sri Lankan/Bangladeshi. Equivalent of Oreo or banana, I mean. Don’t know that we have an equivalent term for Uncle Tom. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2012, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uncle-tom-in-other-minority-groups/627559/25 "2012-07-10T11:48:43Z")
A White Afrikaner who supported the liberation struggle against Apartheid would be called a “kaffirboetie” (li. “\Black’s brother”, but “niggerlover” captures the tone a lot better) - sort of a reverse Tom. Can’t think of a reverse equivalent here. “Tiny Tim” is, however, hilarious. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2012, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uncle-tom-in-other-minority-groups/627559/26 "2012-07-10T22:14:32Z")
> [@gatorslap](#): > > “Just because I’m black, doesn’t mean I can’t support the KKK” Well, when it comes to racial separatism, there are certainly blacks who see eye-to-eye with the Klan on that issue. ---
**Author:** ![ExcitedIdiot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ea5d25/32.png) [@ExcitedIdiot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ExcitedIdiot)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2012, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uncle-tom-in-other-minority-groups/627559/27 "2012-07-15T23:22:46Z")
[Uncle Timmy](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_students_at_South_Park_Elementary#Timmy_Burch)? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uncle-tom-in-other-minority-groups/627559.md?page=1)