re: #608 Salamantis

My major point is that if we are going to have any standing whatsoever to demand a modicum of political decorum from those with whom we disagree on issues, we had better be prepared to provide some as well.

Or we can just continue on embracing our own cherished and treasured snark. In which case we’re in no position to complain about the snark of our political adversaries (beyond complaints about racism, sexism, and homophobia, of course).

Reciprocity: It’s a two-way street. And the adults should start first, and lead the way, and, by principled example, shame the foulmouthed kids into following.

Wingnuts are welcome to try their hand at the snark - they don’t know how to do it propererly though; when they do they usually come across as genuinely nasty and fucked up, normally involving the racism, sexism, and homophobia you mentioned. Read their blogs - many of these people are busy calling the rest of the country wookies, whores and faggots among other things, and they’d be doing that whether they were getting called teabaggers or not.

So again, defending this is a waste of energy. Thinking that they’ll play nice if we extinguish all mirth directed at them is just not grown up politics - its fairy tale stuff and would achieve nothing. So, I’ll continue to poke fun at these chumps using the term ‘teabaggers’ will continue to play a part in that.