Teabagger today didn't like my calling his unemployment benefits welfare

[MADem]

47. You need to pull the string. For some reason, you stubbornly refuse to so do.

The lesson here can be summed up in one word--hypocrisy.

No one is "looking down on those using benefits." If that's your "take away" from the encounter you are missing the point entirely.

The person was using sarcasm, throwing attitudes the teabagger expressed in the past right back in his face, to teach him a lesson about compassion and to verbally demonstrate to him that his own attitudes were lacking in compassion.

It's the OPPOSITE of "looking down" on people. It's illustrating how wrong, stupid and silly--and hypocritical--it is to "look down" on people.

This isn't a limo liberal thing, it's a "call out the bullshitter" thing. It's a "How's that shoe feel on the other foot, asswipe?" thing.

If you can't see that, well...you can't see that. I can't help you. But your "read" of the situation is just wrong.