Palin gives keynote speech at 'tea party' gathering

[starang21]

i prefer to call them teabaggers.

[Ghostwriter]

Originally Posted by starang21

i prefer to call them teabaggers.

Why would you use such a pejorative term?

I wouldn't call you a @#$%su*&er because you may or may not be a liberal.

[ThetaDancer]

Originally Posted by Ghostwriter

Why would you use such a pejorative term?

I wouldn't call you a @#$%su*&er because you may or may not be a liberal.

Ghostwriter,

I've gone over this with you before, but you've completely failed to acknowledge any of my posts. Perhaps you have me on ignore, and if that is the case I apologize for posting this yet again. However, there was a time early in the tea party movement when tea party attendees themselves would call themselves "teabaggers"...eventually, I think they caught on to the double entendre and then it became offensive. I don't care for the term at all and would prefer that it was no one used it...observers or tea party participants...but I think it's a bit ignorant to pretend that tea partiers didn't initially use the term themselves (particularly because I have now informed you of this fact multiple times...you can't act like you didn't know it).

[DaemonSeid]

Originally Posted by ThetaDancer

Ghostwriter,

I've gone over this with you before, but you've completely failed to acknowledge any of my posts. Perhaps you have me on ignore, and if that is the case I apologize for posting this yet again. However, there was a time early in the tea party movement when tea party attendees themselves would call themselves "teabaggers"...eventually, I think they caught on to the double entendre and then it became offensive. I don't care for the term at all and would prefer that it was no one used it...observers or tea party participants...but I think it's a bit ignorant to pretend that tea partiers didn't initially use the term themselves (particularly because I have now informed you of this fact multiple times...you can't act like you didn't know it).

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(entry) 6. tea bagger


1. A sex act.

2. A phrase Fox News picked to promote a series of "Boston Tea Party" reenactment protests against the Obama administration on Tax Freedom Day, apparently unaware of the meaning of the phrase (see above.)

Fox news watcher: are you going to the tea bagger party?

Me: what are you, some kinda perv?

[Ghostwriter]

Originally Posted by ThetaDancer

Ghostwriter,

I've gone over this with you before, but you've completely failed to acknowledge any of my posts. Perhaps you have me on ignore, and if that is the case I apologize for posting this yet again. However, there was a time early in the tea party movement when tea party attendees themselves would call themselves "teabaggers"...eventually, I think they caught on to the double entendre and then it became offensive. I don't care for the term at all and would prefer that it was no one used it...observers or tea party participants...but I think it's a bit ignorant to pretend that tea partiers didn't initially use the term themselves (particularly because I have now informed you of this fact multiple times...you can't act like you didn't know it).

So are you starang21? That is who I quoted and asked the question of.

[DrPhil]

Originally Posted by Ghostwriter

So are you starang21? That is who I quoted and asked the question of.

It read like a rhetorical question.

[ThetaDancer]

Originally Posted by Ghostwriter

So are you starang21? That is who I quoted and asked the question of.

Don't be a dick...obviously I'm not starang21. But I read it like a rhetorical question, this is an open discussion board, and I've brought this to your attention before but you continue to ignore it.

[Ghostwriter]

Originally Posted by ThetaDancer

Don't be a dick...obviously I'm not starang21. But I read it like a rhetorical question, this is an open discussion board, and I've brought this to your attention before but you continue to ignore it.

Hmm. Don't get your panties in a wad. There are numerous instances of posters using different ID's in GC.

Because some people refer to themselves and others in their group by using the "n word" that does not make it okay to refer to them as such. Why? Because it is inflamatory, unnecessarily offensive and serves no purpose other than disparagement.

If those who attended the Tea Party events referred to themselves as "teabaggers" it was more than likely because they had not heard the term used as a sexual act. I know I had never heard of it prior to MSNBC harping incessantly about it. Just so you know, I attended several "Tea Parties" last year. You and I both know it is a pejorative term, so why would one want to use it? The answer: to be unnecessarily offensive, to inflame and to disparage.

I have now answered you. Can we be friends?

[knight_shadow]

Originally Posted by Ghostwriter

Because some people refer to themselves and others in their group by using the "n word" that does not make it okay to refer to them as such. Why? Because it is inflamatory, unnecessarily offensive and serves no other purpose other than disparagement.

Not necessarily.

[DaemonSeid]

Originally Posted by Ghostwriter

If those who attended the Tea Party events referred to themselves as "teabaggers" it was more than likely because they had not heard the term used as a sexual act. I know I had never heard of it prior to MSNBC harping incessantly about it. Just so you know, I attended several "Tea Parties" last year. You and I both know it is a pejorative term, so why would one want to use it? The answer: to be unnecessarily offensive, to inflame and to disparage.

So, whose fault that they called themselves teabaggers without researching the term first?

I don't even think that's in the same ballpark as what you are saying.

Heh.

If it bothers you that much then you may want to call oxford over its inclusion as word of the year.

[DrPhil]

Originally Posted by Ghostwriter

Hmm. Don't get your panties in a wad. There are numerous instances of posters using different ID's in GC.

You know that you were just telling her to mind her own business.

[DrPhil]

Originally Posted by Ghostwriter

Why would you use such a pejorative term?

I wouldn't call you a @#$%su*&er because you may or may not be a liberal.

Does the bolded stand for "teabagger?"

[Ghostwriter]

Originally Posted by DrPhil

Does the bolded stand for "teabagger?"

No a little North of "teabagger".

[DrPhil]

Originally Posted by Ghostwriter

No a little North of "teabagger".

What's a little North of "teabagger?"

[knight_shadow]

Originally Posted by Ghostwriter

@#$%su*&er

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