And that is why I said, if you want to twist something I said into a victory for you and a defeat for me, be my guest.
Before I do, I need to know how you define 'guest.'
And that is why I said, if you want to twist something I said into a victory for you and a defeat for me, be my guest.
Ah! But if those terms had been spoken by liberals or democrats, you would be screaming bigot and racist. Are two-faced and transparent derogatory words?"It is your right to like or dislike anybody you want. But when the teabaggers shout epithets like 'nigg*r' or 'fagg*t', they are clearly stepping over the line. That is what we are discussing here, not your right to like or dislike somebody"
And when decent and normal people are besmirched by being called "tea baggers" - a depraved homosexual activity - now that is REALLY stepping over the line.
And that is what we are discussing here. Or should it be titled: "The usual liberal hypocrisy"?
"There were cries of 'nigg*r' aimed at Rep. Lewis, and cries of 'f*g' directed at Barney Franks, the openly gay member. There is reason to believe that at least some of them are racist and homophobic."
So WHAT??? Lewis is BLACK. Franks is a self-admitted HOMO. As I said earlier, invectives and adjectives are only a matter of degree. Neither of these two worthies can deny what they are and what they've been called. In fact, if they should wear it as a badge of honour.
Only the overly sensitive could make a montain out of this mole hill.
What the Tea Partiers said was absolutely no worse than the idiotic chants like "Bush lied, people died" or for that matter, calling honest Americans tea baggers.
According to Yukon Jack, it's acceptable to call someone a 'ni99er', if they're black?
Hello, and welcome to 1959!
A non-issue for a former civil rights activist? Civil Rights, something he worked hard at for many years only to have some trailerpark bigot refer to him as a n*gger because he disagrees with the way he plans to vote?
"Give me a break, it's nowhere along the same level as the other terms you mentioned. Tea-Baggers may be a derogatory term but it certainly doest not share the type of history n*gger or f*ggot does."
YOU give ME a break!
The fact that the President is a black man and the fact that the person who is most responsible for the financial meltdown is a homosexual should put all these tired, obsolete, invalid and grotesque cries of nonsense to rest.
For all who prefer crying instead of looking in history:
The N-word is nothing more and nothing less than colloquial pronounciation of the Spanish/Portugese word. You know.
As far as the other word is concerned, the homosexuals hijacked a word that used to mean happy. They, of all people, have no reason to complain.
And they usually don't. They have slavish, slobbering spokesmen like SirJosephPorter.
Give me a break, it's nowhere along the same level as the other terms you mentioned. Tea-Baggers may be a derogatory term but it certainly doest not share the type of history n*gger or f*ggot does.
Tea bagging is a sexual act which is used by some on the left/mainstream to describe the Tea Party Movement whereas the other two are insults aimed at specific peoples, ie gays & blacks, if you can't see the difference you really are daft. No ambiguity there, Jacko.
"Quite so. As Rep. Lewis said, it was as if he was back in Selma, Alabama 40 years ago. One would think that most Americans would have gone beyond such thinking by now. Evidently not the teabaggers (and evidently not some in this forum)."
Oh, boo hoo hoo, cry me a river. Lewis IS a member of the House of Representatives. The mayors of most large cities and many small cities in America are blacks. (Pardon my transgression: AFRICAN-AMERICANS).
Lewis among with other malcontents think it is necessary to form a "congressional Black Caucus", but would cry if there were any attempt to form a congressional white caucus.
Obama is the President, for heaven's sakes.
What more do they want?
The term teabaggers was initially used by a CNN reporter (I forget his name). He probably used it as a short form, tea party supporters or tea party followers is a mouth full to say. Teabagger is short, to the point and descriptive (like Republican or democrat).
That was probably the only reason he used the term. If tea baggers themselves had not made such a big deal of it, most people would still be ignorant as to its sexual meaning. I think teabaggers themselves are largely responsible for the controversy.
"We don't want anything more, now we know how you really feel about blacks. When you said that Rep. Lewis is a nigg*r, that he should proudly call himself a nigg*r, that told me all I wanted to know about you."
This blatant LIE is worthy of reporting.
Moderators, where are you?
"There were cries of 'nigg*r' aimed at Rep. Lewis, and cries of 'f*g' directed at Barney Franks, the openly gay member. There is reason to believe that at least some of them are racist and homophobic."
So WHAT??? Lewis is BLACK. Franks is a self-admitted HOMO. As I said earlier, invectives and adjectives are only a matter of degree. Neither of these two worthies can deny what they are and what they've been called. In fact, if they should wear it as a badge of honour.
Only the overly sensitive could make a montain out of this mole hill.
What the Tea Partiers said was absolutely no worse than the idiotic chants like "Bush lied, people died" or for that matter, calling honest Americans tea baggers.
No, he (and you, obviously) use it as a derogatory way to sneakily try to insult people, to poke fun at them, exactly the way you use 'Joan of Arc' to refer to Palin.
Don't worry, you're quite transparent; you might think there are people out there who believe you, but their numbers are quite small.
It's childish, but not unexpected.
But you're still good for a laugh.
LW: I suppose you have heard of the term "buzz word" used at meetings....The one that i found was very much over-used when I attended production meetings was "Going forward" which I counted 17 times used at a production meeting, which is why SPA's over use of certain phrases is easy for me to spot...To-day religious right has been replaced by Teabagger as a buzz word....but I prefer to call it a "troll" because a buzz word is usually used inadvertently but these other words are admittedly used on purpose aggravate people....a definite trolling tactic non???Like I said: It's like slowing down to look at a car wreck