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Re: Stop using the term "teabagger"

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Youre a moderator. Do you beleive all the insults being hurled are within the forum rules?
Not when they're being hurled specifically at other members. But, yes, lodging insults against an ideology, such as calling tea party protesters "teabaggers" is acceptable. Heck, in the post above yours, California Girl paints a large and varied group of people as all being cowards, which I'm sure liberals would find just as insulting as a tea party protester being called a teabagger, but it's allowed.
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Not when they're being hurled specifically at other members. But, yes, lodging insults against an ideology, such as calling tea party protesters "teabaggers" is acceptable. Heck, in the post above yours, California Girl paints a large and varied group of people as all being cowards, which I'm sure liberals would find just as insulting as a tea party protester being called a teabagger, but it's allowed.
My bad!

But, in the post I quoted, those who are "TEAbaggers"* as 'knuckle dragging thugs', and I'm bad cuz I lumped them together as cowards? Where is the fairness? Where is the balance? I thought liberals were all about being fair?

*Note: If they want to insult us, it would be good if they were smart enough to recognize the difference between tea and TEA.
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Re: Stop using the term "teabagger"

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*Note: If they want to insult us, it would be good if they were smart enough to recognize the difference between tea and TEA.
One is a hot drink of Indian origin, and the other is a hairy ballsack?
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My bad!

But, in the post I quoted, those who are "TEAbaggers"* as 'knuckle dragging thugs', and I'm bad cuz I lumped them together as cowards? Where is the fairness? Where is the balance? I thought liberals were all about being fair?

*Note: If they want to insult us, it would be good if they were smart enough to recognize the difference between tea and TEA.
I didn't intend to single you out, I was merely using your post as a quick example of the point I was trying to make. People talk shit about liberals and conservatives all over this board, it would be quite ridiculous to suddenly enforce a ban on the word 'teabaggers'.
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One is a hot drink of Indian origin, and the other is a hairy ballsack?
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I didn't intend to single you out, I was merely using your post as a quick example of the point I was trying to make. People talk shit about liberals and conservatives all over this board, it would be quite ridiculous to suddenly enforce a ban on the word 'teabaggers'.
I know. I'm glad I'm not a moderator on here at the moment. You guys deserve more money! LOL!!

*No offense was taken, it was just too good an opportunity to miss*
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Bless your heart for not understanding. Maybe you're one of the dudes who gets my hard earned money.
And full of references to the Boston Tea Party.

Not unlike the Patriot act.

If you are going to use the moniker, you should acknowledge the origin and point of the term, and accept the self inflicted hilarity.
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And full of references to the Boston Tea Party.

Not unlike the Patriot act.

If you are going to use the moniker, you should acknowledge the origin and point of the term, and accept the self inflicted hilarity.
I have no problem being called names by people who are afraid to use anything other than words to fight.
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Re: Stop using the term "teabagger"

This is like when the White House decided to name the invasion of Iraq, Operation Iraqi Liberation or OIL for short.
They came up with a new name fast.

And come on, admit it, you guys would love it if Obama proposed forming the National Institute for Greenhouse Gas Abatement or the Scientific Health Innovations Team .............
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Re: Stop using the term "teabagger"

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This is like when the White House decided to name the invasion of Iraq, Operation Iraqi Liberation or OIL for short.
They came up with a new name fast.

And come on, admit it, you guys would love it if Obama proposed forming the National Institute for Greenhouse Gas Abatement or the Scientific Health Innovations Team .............
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Not when they're being hurled specifically at other members. But, yes, lodging insults against an ideology, such as calling tea party protesters "teabaggers" is acceptable. Heck, in the post above yours, California Girl paints a large and varied group of people as all being cowards, which I'm sure liberals would find just as insulting as a tea party protester being called a teabagger, but it's allowed.
Not a good comparison. Coward, while being used as an insult, is insulting in that it can be accurately used to identify someones political behavior. Tea bagging is accusing someone of engaging in putting their testicles in someones mouth. It is only being used as an insult and has no generally accetable political conotation. Given many people here have attended tea parties, writing a thread which identifies people as teabaggers is an implied insult.

Would we allow a thread to be titled "Niggers think they should get reperations?"
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Not a good comparison. Coward, while being used as an insult, is insulting in that it can be accurately used to identify someones political behavior. Tea bagging is accusing someone of engaging in putting their testicles in someones mouth. It is only being used as an insult and has no generally accetable political conotation. Given many people here have attended tea parties, writing a thread which identifies people as teabaggers is an implied insult.
Tea bagging can be accurately used to identify someone's bedroom behavior. Some liberals may be cowards and some tea party attendees could actually enjoy tea bagging others. Both have negative implications and both are insulting when used broadly against a large group of people, labeling them not as individuals and not on their own merits, but simply for what they believe.
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Would we allow a thread to be titled "Niggers think they should get reperations?"
We would most likely edit the word out of the title, yes. But I think you'd have a hard time equating the word "tea baggers" with "niggers", especially with the historical use of the word and what it implies.
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Tea bagging can be accurately used to identify someone's bedroom behavior. Some liberals may be cowards and some tea party attendees could actually enjoy tea bagging others. Both have negative implications and both are insulting when used broadly against a large group of people, labeling them not as individuals and not on their own merits, but simply for what they believe.

We would most likely edit the word out of the title, yes. But I think you'd have a hard time equating the word "tea baggers" with "niggers", especially with the historical use of the word and what it implies.
Not really. Its a word specifically meant as an insult. There is no political connotation. Tea baggers is the same way. It is not meant to identify sexual behavior, but specifically as an insult. It is baiting, and nothing more. The same topic could be discussed by referring to them accurately as protestors, or tea party protesters.
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Not really. Its a word specifically meant as an insult. There is no political connotation. Tea baggers is the same way. It is not meant to identify sexual behavior, but specifically as an insult. It is baiting, and nothing more. The same topic could be discussed by referring to them accurately as protestors, or tea party protesters.
You should try and get to know some more adventurous women.

And it's not an insult to call someone what they asked to be called, even if later they realize it was really stupid.
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