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[BarTopDancer]

Originally Posted by scaeagles

Teabaggers. Again, I guess it's completely OK to use such terms for groups of people you don't like. I realize that comment was from 4/14, but I hadn't read it until now.

I believe members of the Fox media used the term teabaggers to describe them first.

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by BarTopDancer

I believe members of the Fox media used the term teabaggers to describe them first.

I'll cop to that being a flimsy excuse for the continued use of the term by people who, unlike Fox's initial use which was out of ignorance, use it because of the derogatory meaning. I've mostly avoided using it myself, having only used it a couple times at the height of the humor value of the unintended use by those sympathetic with the movement. Once the humor value wore off, I recognized that continued use was purely derogatory.