Ugh. White people. Everything is an attack on them. The war on Christmas, affirmative action, the cancellation of “Melrose Place.” Tough times for white people never end. They’ve been an oppressed majority for so long in this country, but with the teabaggers finally getting some coverage, white people no longer have to go into public in black face just to avoid police dogs and fire hoses. Finally strong and finally ready to speak up, white people are fighting back, and they’re not cool with people calling them “teabaggers!”
Enter rich white asshole Grover Norquist:
The term “tea-bagger” is like uttering the “n” word, some say. Though he aspires to promote civility, evidence has surfaced that President Obama has added “tea-bagger” to his public lexicon, though it’s considered a cheap and tawdry insult by “tea party” activists.
“This remark is the equivalent of using the ‘n’ word. It shows contempt for middle America, expressed knowingly, contemptuously, on purpose, and with a smirk. It is indefensible to use this word. The president knows what it means, and his people know what it means. The public thought we reached a new low of incivility during the Clinton administration. Well, the Obama administration has just outdone them,” ATR president Grover Norquist tells Inside the Beltway.
Teabagger, please!
Tell me again how these words are even remotely similar? One has been used for generations as a term of hate, used to subjugate and oppress a race. It comes with a history of violence, inequality and images of George Wallace and Bull Connor. It’s from a time when blacks were second-class citizens and racism was de rigeur.
“Teabagger,” on the other hand is a term that well-to-do white people came up with in protest of the economic policies of a black man who’d been president for all of three months. They didn’t know that the term they’d chosen for themselves was wrought with sexual innuendo and hilarious on its own, but the word certainly wasn’t obscure. They chose a retarded name for themselves — the first of many retarded things they’ve done — and now they’re all having a big bowl of sad about how retarded they were.
So yes, Barack Obama referred to teabaggers as “teabaggers.” That’s what they are, that’s what they called themselves, and that’s what they always will be. Well, that and racists.
Just in case someone at FOX decides to remove that headline and claim it never existed:
And from Andrew Sullivan just moments ago:
“I think the long, awful history of white guys getting lynched for dipping their pendulous scrota in places where they are consensually welcome needs … reparations, anyone?”
[…] 5, 2010 by Dave While Josh was writing that rich, white assholes are complaining that to be called a teabagger is akin to calling a black person… I was looking for examples of white people showing their racist thoughts outwardly in the […]
Your blog writing is refreshingly funny and straight to the point. Let the teabaggers hoist themselves with their own petard! http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/hoist%20by%20your%20own%20petard.html