Friday, October 23, 2009

Re: Re: Teabagger   [Jay Nordlinger]

This is the way I put it in a post on Monday: “I myself am afraid that ‘teabagger’ is here to stay. And perhaps conservatives will ‘own’ the insult, as they say? Or maybe they have owned it already? Alternatively, is ‘teabagger’ to be a conservative N-word, acceptable — even joyously employed — among conservatives, but nasty and impermissible from liberals?” 

Another word on the list of onetime insults that got “owned”: “Methodist.”

P.S. Readers keep reporting instances of the use of “teabagger” by “mainstreamers” — Gwen Ifill is one such mainstreamer. Readers also wonder: When will the ’streamers stop smirking, as they say it? The smirks are still present — suggesting that the users know exactly what they’re doing.

10/23 04:33 PMShare