In a piece in latest issue of The National Review, columnist
Jay Nordlinger argues that the use of the word 'teabagger' is equal to the use of the N-word.
Yes, you read that right. Teabagger = the N-word.
A guide on how to make yourself sound oppressed after the jump.
I'd like to thank our friends at TPM for catching this bizarre goodness, and as always please let me know if this was diaried before.
Now while it is easy to write a 20 page diary full of teabag jokes(I'll leave that to the comments), I decided to attempt a honest showing for Mr. Nordlinger's piece.
His premise for the first half of the article is right. We liberals use the term 'teabagger(s)' as a joke and an insult. We call them these names to belittle them for their lack of knowledge on the subject.
Now as for it being equal to the N-word is where Mr. Nordlinger goes off the deep end of the teabagging pool and starts bobbing around in his own stupidity. What he seems to forget is that the N-word has been used for hundreds of years as an oppressive force on an entire group of people. Its use was to insult and undermine any progress that was made culturally. 'You are one, and you'll always be one' has negative generational force, as do all racial and ethnic insults.
You teabaggers not only self-idenified as that from the beginning, but embraced the term not knowing its full meaning. (Unless your Larry Craig or Mark Foley). Yes the word is insulting and demeaning to you as a group of people, and yes its original meaning is not what you had in mind when you chose to use the word. But the you CHOSE to use the word. Blacks did not choose to be called n-word. You have only yourselves to blame here.
Finally may I say something to my oppressed Teabagger Brothers and Sisters out there:
Sucks being a minority doesn't it?