Cuckservative

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  1. Yelling Bird

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    http://www.salon.com/2015/08/03/the...war_over_the_disgusting_“cuckservative”_slur/

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...e-conservative-insult-of-the-month-explained/

    http://dailycaller.com/2015/07/23/whats-behind-the-cuckservative-slur-nsfw/


    I haven't seen anything about this on WF yet, so I thought I'd bring it up. Both the left and the mainstream republicans hate it. Also it seems hypocritical to me for Salon, a site that has no problem with using the word teabagger when describing their enemies, to get all puritanical about cuckservative, calling it disgusting.
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  2. Chardman

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    Teabaggers were stupid enough to call themselves teabaggers, without knowing of its usual, off-color meaning. Thus, I got no problem with anyone calling them by the name they ignorantly coined for themselves. Cuckservative, on the other hand, was a term coined from the outset specifically as an insult with sexual overtones. I can understand why Salon is a tad squeamish about it.
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    gul Revolting Beer Drinker Administrator Formerly Important

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    It also has racial overtones, and is almost certainly motivated in part by the color of the President's skin. I don't at all buy the idea that people using the term are ignorant of the racial component.

    However, I'm not too worried about it.
    Emphasis added to the last sentence, that's the silver lining. The more racist, paranoid, and hysterical they become, the more obvious it becomes, and then they'll lose people like the author of the Slate article.
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  4. tafkats

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    Man. There's a whole lot of raging sexual insecurity bubbling just under the surface of the conservative movement, isn't there?
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    The term is born out of the faux machismo espoused by conservatives on a daily basis. In their mind, the problem is always liberals and leftists, not the big money interests that are screwing all of us.
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    What prominent conservative leaders or organizations have used it?
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    There's nothing "under the surface" about it. A full-fledged war against contraception is going on in the conservative movement, and that's about as above the surface as you get.
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    Hey, the salon guy knows that donald is a troll. Performance artist is an old school way to say troll. I simply do not like the sound of the word, and in all honesty it really does not fit. Yes, the conservatives may think that, and in an individual or focussed group setting I might say it to them, the reality is that is not actually happening. They are just simply getting knocked off their prissy little pedestal and having to deal with real people. The reality is for the most part once they get out of the bubble a lot of them are going to see things differently. The problem is right now the bubble is bursting.
  9. T.R

    T.R Don't Care

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    None. Really scraping the bottom of the barrel when a big deal is made over comments made on social media by nobody's.
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  10. gturner

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    They called themselves "Tea party", as in the Boston Tea Party.
  11. Chardman

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    They called themselves teabaggers as well, you blithering Anal Wart. And we smiled, and laughed, and told them to look it up on the web, and gleeful never let them forget it.
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  12. gturner

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    No, they didn't call themselves tea baggers until liberals starting hurling the insult. Then a few said "Yeah, Pelosi and Obama can suck our balls" and graphically illustrated what they meant.
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  13. Chardman

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    National Review Online maintains that the use of the word was actually coined by
    conservatives, and that Libs gleefully adopted it. LINK

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    If you change the "c", to a "k", it goes from consensual infidelity, to scat-play.
    Just sayin.
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    Doesn't that imply that they knew exactly what the "usual, off-color meaning" was?
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    Certainly, some did, but there were plenty of older tea-party members in those early days, being interviewed by all manner of media, talking about how they were teabaggers, and proud of it, and it was painfully obvious that they didn't have a clue as to its "impolite" meaning. They'd clearly just heard the term, thought it was catchy, and went to town with it!
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    Actually, they called themselves teabaggers and are quite embarassed by it. I am pretty sure I was banned from usmessageboard for referring to the teatards as teabaggers. They did not like me bringing up that old mistake.
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    I saw pictures of them with teabags hanging from their hats. That was certainly a teabagger reference. My friend and I used to search for clips of those nutbars at that big glen beck rally. Oh those poor dumb fucks were just going on and on. Those clips are probably still out there if you can remember what the hell that washington glen beck rally was called.
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  19. Chardman

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    Rachael Maddow discussing the origins of "Teabagger" related to the TEA Party.

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    Supposedly Rush Limbaugh has spoken about it, Trump calls his opponents it, and it is popping up all over the Internet in comments sections.

    It is aimed at people the racist base of the Republican Party think are not tough enough on illegals, blacks, and other nonwhites.
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    garamet "The whole world is watching."

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    Let's see which damn fool is the first to post "Rush is just an entertainer..."

    Five, four, three...
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    Rush is still on the air after his market share losses? o.0
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    gul Revolting Beer Drinker Administrator Formerly Important

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    Either that, or they'll claim nobody listens to him.
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  24. gul

    gul Revolting Beer Drinker Administrator Formerly Important

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    Dang, @Anna must really like herself some Rush Limbaugh.
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  25. Yelling Bird

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    If the tea partiers did call themselves teabaggers first, I doubt the ones that did call themselves that were ignorant of the sexual meaning of the word. Regardless of who came up with the term, the left did a good enough job of using it against the tea party to make most people think they came up with it.

    And regardless of its origin, I still think Salon is a somewhat hypocritical for pretending to be squeamish because of a word that primarily describes a father taking care of another man's child when they're quite happy to use a word that means ballsack in mouth.

    I'd go farther than saying it has racial overtones; I'd just call it racist. But I don't think it's about the president. It's mostly about the republicans.

    The word is used to target prominent conservative leaders, so I doubt they'd be the ones using it.

    Rush Limbaugh hasn't used "cuckservative" to my knowledge, just cuckold. But Michael Savage has mentioned the growing use of the word on his radio show.


    Have you read any of this?
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  26. Liet

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    This picture is infamous:
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    How have you never seen it?
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    Other than being representative of ridiculous political views why should the term teabagger be viewed negatively? The teabagger is the one putting his balls in someone's face not the person getting balls in their face.
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  28. Yelling Bird

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    Because the internet is a big place.

    LOL! The person who made that definitely knows what it means!
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    Many tea partiers are conservative Christians, and would not approve of such a sexually explicit term to refer to them.
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    Having looked around it seems the neo-Nazis and white supremacists/nationalists are cooing about how they got one of their terms picked up by the Republican media bubble.
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