Right Wing Washington Times Compares the Word "Teabagger" to the N word!

Contempt: open disrespect for a person or thing
Hate: a feeling of dislike so strong that it demands action
I have contempt for "Middle Americans" but I don't plan to take any action. Thanks for asking, though; that was a loving gesture on your part.

wow. that was some of the worst and most tortured logic I've seen on this site in some time.

Nope. You want an example? You can hate black widows, but have respect for their bite. You can hate bus station bathrooms, but respect the fact that they are necessary. You can Hate Glen Beck, but respect his ability as a performer.

I suspect the problem here is that disrespect is not actually a verb. You can "show disrespect", you can not respect, but disrespect is not something that necessarily affects the whole being.

what is not going on here? My suposition as to why you are misusing language? In the end I guess the why does;t matter. You are still doing it.

what is this an "am not" "did too" debate? I have misused it in no way.

so just out of curiosity--how do you think the Tea Party is using the term "to teabag"? What do you think it means when they use the term? Because I can guarantee you some of the more fringe members of the Tea Party are not using the term to say let's all be respectful and request a nice easy going non-threatening meeting with our congressional representative to calmly and rationally ask them how we can work together to solve some of the major economic and social issues going on in our country right now.

So by your logic--Glenn Beck needs to stop calling using the terms progressive and liberal and Nazi and socialist to describe people who don't identify as Republicans or members of the Tea Party.

Also, again using your logic, President Obama deserves an apology from the Tea Party because they constantly reference him as being like Hitler or trying to re-create the Holocaust.

Also Anderson Cooper deserves a personal apology from you because unless you know him personally and are intimately aware of his sex life and sex practices than you have no right to say he practiced "teabagging" in the sexual sense of the word or to call him a closeted homosexual. And Rachel Maddow is a lesbian-yes--but the way in which you attributed the label to her seemed to reflect much more of your contempt for her rather than just your stating a fact about her.

Finally you you are the one who seems be overly obsessed with what terms mean and seem to think everybody is being hateful toward you or toward those members of the Tea Party who actually have a point and who are peaceful political protesters. Because the reality is most people here and outside of Fox news are just trying to explain to you the concepts of sarcasm and humor and how its possible to use the term "teabagger" in a sarcastic way that is not meant to harm or show hate--as much as it is designed to reflect back to some fringe members of the Tea Party that they take themselves way too seriously.

But that's the whole point--I didn't use the term "teabagger" in reference to you or to any member of the Tea Party--I simply commented on a posting about the word.

Also again--you seem to be the only one who is exhibiting hateful behavior and being deliberately obtuse in your understanding of what other people are saying to you.

So--how's this--please quit attacking people and attaching the word hate to everything they say if its not in lock step agreement with your personal ideology.

When the Tea Party says to "tea bag" a member of Congress they are referring to sending that Congressman an actual tea bag in the mail. That's how this whole movement got started.

Who is accusing Obama of trying to recreate the holocaust? I've never heard that anywhere. I can see how people could compare him to Hitler but not in any of the ways you're implying. Obviously Obama isn't opening up concentration camps or anything, but there are other similarities.

Both promoted class warfare and claimed to champion the everyday worker who was being exploited by big business and industry. The rhetoric is strikingly similar between the two.

mjsmith11: Stupid libtards and their political correctness.

what confuses me is that the teabaggers detractors didn't make up the work, the teabaggers did themselves. It's just they found out what it meant and want to be able to take it back and no one is letting them.

we are all in the same boat. its like the people who call into radio shows, its not that the shows listeners are all crazy just only the crazy bother to call.
we all generally feel the same but its the nuts who make it seem like one party is perfect and the other rediculous

There isn't one. Let me know if a party with the values you stated starts. I find it amazing when senators switch parties. Truly goes to show they only have their interests at heart.

I have been asking a very similar question. Neither parties of the COIN have our backs. Both have their agendas that serve their major donors.

We need a candidate who is Fiscal Conservative while being a Social Liberal. That combination would get my vote.

vote for Jesse Ventura?

I would vote for anyone who is not part of the established status quo; politics as usual crowd.

Jesse actually fit his bill pretty tightly. He was really quite popular and could probably have won re election had he tried.

"I would vote for anyone who is not part of the established status quo; politics as usual crowd."

Our entire political system is devised such that only *exactly* that type of person could ever become a viable political candidate in the first place.

So true and so sad, Calm...its why I am studying political science at the University.

as well as conservative media.

As opposed to the Conservative Military Industrial Complex Hollywood Media?

Not nearly as much as the conservative hollywood media, but I suppose it's possible.

not unless you were taxed on it without being represented or you also put your scrotum in it.
or demonized the president while advocating for violent revolution

Nice. that looks like fun.

Don't knock it till you tried it. Sucking on a nut sack can be very pleasurable for both the giver and the receiver. What is offensive is having someone's nut sack shoved in your face against your will, which is what the Tea People are doing practically every time they have a rally, shoving their hatred (nutsack) in everyone's faces that pass by and read their hate filled messages on their signs.

I don't have a problem with someone calling me names, sticks and stones you know.

didn't they do that with the original article with the cat and dog?

I'd have to agree. Bring over my next pool boy, please!

Really? Black people call themselves that, so it's okay for everyone to call them that?
If it's okay, why don't you call me one right now?

Why? Because it's not. Stop generalizing people based off rap videos/mainstream pop culture.

Next, you'll be telling me I should get over slavery because I read a history book about it and know that it happened, and where the N word actually came from.

It would be so much easier if black people just forgot all the wrongs American society has committed against them since bringing them over here. Because if they didn't get sold here by other Africans under false pretenses then we would have stayed in Africa where we would have "had it worse" than 400 years of getting beaten and working for free everyday.

We wouldn't of had to experience some of the most heinous racial crimes seen across the world, we would not have had to struggle everyday against stereotypes that label us as ignorant, trivial, and frivolous people who are to be ridiculed and feared rather than respected or accepted. We wouldn't have to hear the same lame lines about "playing victim" because we studied the dirty business of American History and have some semblance of identity.

I'm a victim because I'm black. I'm also an ignorant, self-centered, bigot who thinks the whole of white America owes me something because I can put two sentences together about sociopolitical viewpoints and racial tensions in America going ignored. I also contradict the whole of White America because I say the one word openly in public every chance I get that he cannot say... and it tears him up inside. Even if I do not specifically mention the whole of White America, I have commited the grave offense of mentioning it about some of them and since this is all I am, others can minimize the argument that something is wrong with how our nation views race.

But don't call a Teabagger a Teabagger; or I suppose I should say the "T" word since it has centuries of racial connotations to it that stem back into when liberals enslaved the conservative class after taking them from their homeland, putting them in chains, then forcing them to do manual labor while viewing them as less than a person.

Why do I even bother to fight stereotypical views if I am doomed to live within them? I should just drop out of school, sell drugs, get a rap career and get arrested trying to shoot someone to "up my street cred" so the white people don't start to believe I am actually what's normal for young African-Americans, and that all the negative depictions in the media that never lies to them is right.

I'm barely even validating that line of questioning with this response.
What does that have to do with anything here?

You have the nerve to call someone else racist in another thread, then come into this one and ask that question, in that context and in that language.

No one else said that word. Only you.

I thought current was a place that I could get AWAY from the horrors of internet trolls, but it appears no place is safe from racists on the internet.

I reported you, BTW. I sincerely hope that you get banned. I don't come in here and use stereotypical assumptions with derogatory and offensively racist language to prove a point against you, and if you can't at least afford me the respect to not do the same then you really don't deserve to be here.

because white people used it as a coloquilism to socialy oppress them. so by themselves using the word they take back the power of it.

"why do "african americans" call each other niggers???"

Because they're stupid.

"But they still do it amongst themselves and it's ok."

Bullshit. No, it's not.

Sapience:

I can't believe you're actually asking such a stupid question. Take a wild guess, Sherlock.

Sapience:

Jesus fucking Christ.

If you really think I would deny that certain black people call each other "niggers" then I have truly been wasting my time communicating with you in the first place.

I think you're awfully dense, but I don't think you're SO dense as to actually deny that SOME white people oppose Obama due to his race alone (and if, heaven forbid, you DID, just take a look here: http://www.stormfront.org/forum/)

Likewise, you may think I'm a liberal ostrich with its head in the sand (I'm not a liberal, but I digress), but not even the most liberal of liberals would deny the universally acknowledged fact that SOME black people DO call each other nigger (or "nigga", which is just a softened incarnation of the word).

Asking me whether or not I think black people have called each other "niggers" is like me asking you whether or not any white people have ever spoken with a Southern accent.

Seriously, stop this bullshit. You may hate me, but you should at least be able to acknowledge that I have, in fact, heard rap music before. -_-

"And you'd be an idiot to deny that people voted for him because he is half black."

Well that's good, because I never said that.

"The problem is you can't admit that those that voted did the same thing...."

There are idiots out there who voted for Obama because he's black.

Sorry, did I just blow your mind?

My bad—you want help cleaning your exploded brain matter from the floor?

"they voted because he was black not because they listened to what he had to say and agreed....they saw skin color and said YES finally I'll be alive when the first black president is here...gotta get him in."

We have a real Einstein on our hands, folks! This brilliant social analyst has discovered that black people CAN, in fact, be racist! OMG SOMEBODY ALERT THE PRESS!

"Neither did I state that there are some people (not just white) who didn't vote for him because he was black."

Never said you did. Then again, I'm clearly a liar, so if you can find where I said that, I'll gladly send you $20 through PayPal out of appreciation.

No one listen to calm_incense, He is a pedophile who would rather see children get "laid" then receive and education.
Help me get him banned!

Lonely the only.

a lot of morons thinks that teabaggers are all oppressed white ango saxon protestant..

and there in lies the irony
you cant play the race card when you are the dominant race

Teabaggers call Obama a socialist, a fascist and a communist. Those words are used to elicit emotions from people: anger from people who support Obama, and fear from people who don't. So, when I use the term Teabagger, I use it to piss people like you off, and make people like me laugh. And it's obviously pissing you off or you wouldn't be defending it so persistently.

In conclusion, Teabagger is a hilarious name for a group of ill-informed, ignorant and overwhelmingly racist Americans who are the exact opposite of "sapient".

Initiating what could be tit for tat-ed. Hold on I bet somewhere that's mature...nope.

and you don't do the same....that is a laugh.

A Sapient is a benefaker of jibes. In the words of Christopher Marlowe

ok we got them to stop calling us that stupid name we dubbed oureslves showing how out of touch with the culture we really are.
now lets get back to associating hitler and nazism with everyone we dont like

read the article you teabagging teabagger

rofl the guy holding the sign looks so stupid roflllllll...

yeah, he played you there. It pretty much is.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teabagger
That photo is actually in the wiki entry for teabagger.

Did you read the article? Just because you don't like history doesn't mean it didn't happen.

what was that other word "primarily"? Like mostly? As in "not all the time"? Everyone agrees that teabaggers don't call themselves that. There is photograpic evidence that they used the term though.

"who's being rude here?"
.. Oh me. I never pretended not to be rude. I like rude. I'm no more rude than you I think. Don't let that stop you though. Rude doesn't phase me. I can be rude right back. No problem.

"you are lying to use a word you know is wrong"
I still contend the word is not "wrong". It's just not one they like or deliberately picked, anymore that the two partes deliberately picked donkeys and elephants as their mascots. (they were picked as insulting parodies by a famous 19th century cartoonist) How do you even get lying out of that anyway? Tortured phrasing does not an argument make.

Why do I use a term that the group in question prefers not to be used? I've got a good reason for that one.

The problem is the right wing has a long history of abandoning their words as the reality of their groups catch up with them. There was the moral majority, who went through several name changes to avoid people getting a handle on who exqctly they were. IIRC the american Nazi party changed it's name at least twice.

Me I'm tired of it. You get what you get and you live with your actions.

IMHO all this squatting and pewling the teabaggers are dong is to thier detriment anyway. This is how the whole thing has worked for hundereds of years. Heck the term "whig" was originally an insult. Just own it. Say "yeah, we're teabaggers and this is what hat means" print up your letterhead with a tea bag logo and own it. If your platform is so weak it can't even handle a single penis joke why are you even out there?

No, you mean they are nicer than Teabaggers. Those guys are vicious.

not until recently

Whatever you say Teabagger

Well, that comment was just like a teabagger.

You claim that we are "masking the real message of the Tea Party movement" when no two teabaggers can agree on a message beyond a bunch of vague hyperbole like "small government" and "less taxes".

You claim the Left has "elitist leaders" when the Republicans are a bunch of multi-millionaires in bed with huge corporations.

I found it so funny when durring the election the right wing called Obama, a half-black man raised by a single mother, and had to get a scholarship to be able to attend college an "elitist", while McCain, a multi-millionaire who does not even know how many houses he owns, and wears $500 shoes is NOT an "elitist".

It shows that teabaggers are just parrots- you have no idea what you are saying at all. You repeat words verbatim from the pundits who tell you what to say, even when you don't know what those words mean.

You were fed a bunch of lies about democrats stealing "the American dream" from "the common man", and the ones lying to you are the ones who actually ARE stealing your dreams.

They lie to you about health care "death panels" because they don't want the government to stop the "death panels" that exist NOW in Insurance companies.

They lie to you about "tax and spend" democrats, when the Democrats LOWER the taxes on the middle classes, and RAISE taxes on the wealthy and corporations, who don't even pay any taxes anyway.

Republicans lower taxes on the wealthy and corporations- who, again, don't pay any taxes anyway- and tell YOU that somehow YOU benefit.

Obama did not make "teabagger" a dirty word.
Teabaggers did.

ok and the real message is................................we have been waiting for almost two years for a platform

Huh?

First, elitist does not mean you're rich. Elitist means you feel you are better qualified to determine what's right for somebody than they are ... because you're naturally superior.

Second, Democrats raise taxes. Your class warfare games (pitting poor against middle class against rich) are a snowblower's tactic to hide how the world works. Democrats cost people money. They raise taxes and that pulls money from the economy, hurting everybody. Republicans are bad about it too, just not AS bad as the Progressive Marxists that are currently in charge.

Third, the top 25% of wage earners pay 85% of the taxes the federal government collects. Why do you regurgitate the snowblower's line that corporations and wealthy don't pay taxes? You must know that's not really true.

I manage a small business. I make money when other companies spend money. Then I feed my family with that money, buy them clothes, etc. It's hard for companies to spend money when the government takes their money. See how this works? That's economics.