The following announcement has just been posted to the strip’s official website:
There are a few people who have taken offense at my use of the term “teabagger” to describe the extreme right-wingers who are in the process of taking over this country. A few have even been so bold as to try and have my strip pulled for its use of that term.
As amused as I am by the fact that a radical sect that claims to want to uphold the Constitution of the United States is so quick to act to try and stifle the speech of someone who opposes them, I am still concerned about their feelings. If they don’t want me to refer to them by a term which they themselves adopted before they found out certain unsavory connotations of it, then I will bow to their request.
Effective immediately, I will no longer refer to the teabaggers in the strip as “teabaggers.” I will only refer to them as “teahadist” or “teahadi.” I apologize for the inconvenience.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
The following announcement has just been posted to the strip’s official website:
There are a few people who have taken offense at my use of the term “teabagger” to describe the extreme right-wingers who are in the process of taking over this country. A few have even been so bold as to try and have my strip pulled for its use of that term.
As amused as I am by the fact that a radical sect that claims to want to uphold the Constitution of the United States is so quick to act to try and stifle the speech of someone who opposes them, I am still concerned about their feelings. If they don’t want me to refer to them by a term which they themselves adopted before they found out certain unsavory connotations of it, then I will bow to their request.
Effective immediately, I will no longer refer to the teabaggers in the strip as “teabaggers.” I will only refer to them as “teahadist” or “teahadi.” I apologize for the inconvenience.