I wish somebody would please explain to me what the difference is supposed to be between liberals (including many on national television) referring to tea partiers as “teabaggers” and people referring to African-Americans as n*****s?
The difference is that African-Americans are a "protected class", and tea partiers are not. In fact, the only groups today against which any epithet is acceptable, no matter how derogatory, are tea partiers and other conservatives, white males, and Christians.