The members of the teabag movement call themselves teabaggers. That's where I learned the term. Same goes for neo-cons. That's their word for themselves. I have no reason to want to call them those things except for the reason that that's what they call themselves.

The teabaggers call themselves that with pride, too. They were quite surprised to learn that there was another meaning for that term, but by then, it was too late. They had already invested a lot in promoting the use of the term.

I think if there is ignorance being shown anywhere, it's by the people who don't know history.