Why Is This Still Acceptable?

In 1773, American colonists rose up against the tyranny of the English Crown. The political elite deemed it necessary to force upon the people unreasonable taxation without representation. The people, who had finally endured enough, sent a message back to the ruling class that they would no longer tolerate such malevolent rule. This event would come to be known as the Boston Tea Party.

I don’t know the exact year of origin of the term, but at some point likely in the twentieth century, the act of dipping one’s genitals in another’s mouth became known as teabagging.

So, here we are in the new twenty-first century. It is a time of political correctness. The things we say, now more than ever, can make or break us. Whether sought or unsought, the wrong term which may be deemed “racist” or “intolerant” has destroyed the lives and careers of countless Americans. We are a nation long past the hurling of racial epithets such as “the N-word” (a word I fear to reproduce here, yet rap and hip-hop artists use at will without worry of insurrection).

Make a joke at someone’s private birthday party? You’re fired. Use a name that some historian can link to racism? Lose an election. Speak out against a group that calls itself “The Race”? You’re a damned racist. Yet, refer to Americans who believe in the Constitution as “teabaggers”, and you can count yourself among major media personalities as well as prominent lawmakers.

Since when did we all lie down and allow the term to be acceptable? Is it because there is no race associated with it? Here’s one for you: American. The term is vile, rude, and totally incongruent with the ideal of a civil discourse on governing principle. Aren’t we constantly bombarded by the very people coining the term that we must be more civil? Are we truly the ones who have abandoned civility?

They get angry when we call them socialists. They get furious when we call them communists. Yet, we hear them parrot the words of Marx, Lennon and Mao. They wear shirts bearing the image of Che Gueverra, praise the wonders of the Cuban paradise, and proclaim Hugo Chavez a visionary – yet loathe being classified as what they truly are. So, how apt is their term for us?

Are we sexual deviants? Are we homosexual? Are we sexually experimental? I’m sure that some of us are. However, the term which has become so conveniently mainstream has been assigned to us all without any real attribution as to behavior. It is derogatory, just as is “nigger”, “mick”, “dego”, “dothead”, “injun”, “wetback”, “spick”, “wop”, “slope”, and “kike” to name just a few. It is just as offensive.

The oh-so-tolerant leftists continue to throw this soubriquet around, all the while proclaiming to be the sole possessors of the talisman of compassion. Meanwhile, we Americans who believe that the Founding Fathers knew what they were doing continue to be slandered and derided with this abhorrent term.

Since when is this sort of behavior acceptable? Would male homosexuals be content with the mainstream use of the term “pole-smoker” or female homosexuals with “carpet-muncher”? Would they sit passively as those terms were used in a news broadcast or on the floor of the United States Congress? How about the black community? Would they accept being called a “spear-chucker” by any news personality?

Why do we, Americans who understand and embrace the freedom endowed us by our Creator, sit idle as we are likened to a sexual act? Why do we allow our media and lawmakers to do so with impunity? We are the first to object to all the derogatory terms mentioned here. The terms we use against others are apt: communist, Marxist, socialist. They are not used as a smear, but rather as a description. Does “teabagger” accurately describe the community in which it is directed?

The moment leftists stop using this term will be the moment I consider any of their calls for “civil discourse”.