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Boiling Mad

It’s not easy being a member of a minority group. It’s bad enough being marginalized, but it’s even worse to be smeared. Look at this quote from Talking Points Memo:

But don’t mistake DeMint for a crank. He’s actually a consummate optimist. He says “Pat Toomey, who is running in Pennsylvania, is one of the most mainstream Americans I know.” And surely all those diaspora northerners will repatriate Pennsylvania when they realize that the “mainstream” is on the rise and “forced unionization” will no longer beleaguer the tea-loving masses.

As a tea-lover, I feel degraded and humiliated by being stereotyped, particularly this stereotype. What did we tea-lovers ever do to be lumped together with Jim DeMint and Pat Toomey, not to mention Republicans in general? It’s bad enough that when I go to a restaurant the coffee drinkers get a decent brew while I get a bag full of some substance that used to be part of a tea plant. But to have it insinuated that I share the mindset (if mindless people can have a mindset) of these cretins is beyond the pale.

This sort of thing has gone on oolong enough. Just because we tea lovers are a minority group in a nation of coffee drinkers does not mean we can be associated with a justly despised splinter group of doubtful sanity. If this keeps up we tea lovers will come to a rolling boil, after which we will steep in our righteous anger until the full flavor of our fury blossoms forth. Our vengeance shall be terrible, yet surprisingly convivial.


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