Could you show the class where in that page you linked it says that Tea Partiers referred
to themselves as "teabaggers"? One person using the sexual pun isn't the same sort of "haha. They don't know what it means and they're calling themselves teabaggers!" funny, is it? And if using tea bags as a symbol of opposition to current government policy makes one a teabagger, then aren't you one as well?
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These days, I'd bet that 90% of its usage comes from it just being easier to say/type than "Tea Partier" or "Tea Party Supporter" or whatever.
No. It's used by those who know it's going to offend people to offend people. I've *never* heard anyone on the right refer to themselves or those in the tea party movement as "teabaggers". There was a brief period where the media was referring to them by that label, amid much smirks. Again, with no evidence that this was ever a label they applied to themselves. And today, I hear pretty much only the nutty left use the term derogatively towards members of the tea party movement.
But hey! Fiction is more fun than fact I guess...
Edited, May 6th 2010 1:19pm by gbaji