Shall we call them fuckwits instead?
The Religious Right is upset (again). They’ve decided that it hurts their feefees when we refer to them as the religious right and they’re not going to take it anymore (via: Pam Spalding):
The term “Religious Right” pops up every election cycle, but leaders often identified with the political movement say that while their constituencies remain strong, the catchphrase deserves a proper burial.
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However, several politically conservative evangelicals said in interviews that they do not want to be identified with the “Religious Right,” “Christian Right,” “Moral Majority,” or other phrases still thrown around in journalism and academia.
As you can probably guess from the title I’m somewhat partial to calling them fuckwits. How about you? What do you think we should call ‘em instead?
ETA: Check out this thread on Shakesville for some excellant ideas such as “Cooter Inspectors” by Shaker JJohnson.
It was (not) Shakespeare who said:
“What’s in a name? that which we call a turd by any other name would smell as stanky”
Fuckwit is good though.
Fuckwits or just plain stupid fuckers (PSF’s) works for me. It’s amazing that such a small minority of people gets them so hot and bothered…
I’m partial to “Religious Right,” “Christian Right,” and “Moral Majority.”
…just because now I know it annoys them.
Well, gosh … maybe they might re-think their habit of using terms like “liberal atheist”, “militant homosexual”, “baby-killers”, and so forth.
I call them the Religious Wrong — it is a more accurate appelation, after all. Besides, “fuckwits”, though accurate, smacks of an ad hominem attack.