Liberal media largely ignores 'Uncle Tim' slurs against Tim Scott after his Biden response WaPo quotes slur-using activist who accused Scott of giving cover to white supremacists The very first three paragraphs (underneath a photo of The View’s far-left Joy Behar) read this way: “Liberal media outlets almost completely ignored the "Uncle Tim" slurs that trended on social media against Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., after his rebuttal Wednesday to President Biden's address to Congress. Scott, the lone Black Republican in the U.S. Senate, infuriated progressives with his speech, which included remarks that the United States isn't a racist country. After his rebuttal, "Uncle Tim" trended on Twitter, a play on the "Uncle Tom" slur for Blacks viewed as overly deferential to Whites.