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CitizenKong ,

Weird Al: good weird Trump: bad weird

It’s not rocket science.

feedum_sneedson ,

More offended by people using the word “discourse” to describe the relentless, terminally-online, America-centric shit-slinging.

Glide ,

Imo, the neat thing about this current “weird” discourse is that only right-wingers could ever find it genuinely insulting. Any sensible, self-actualized human being who isn’t obsessing over the sex and genetalia of others is like “haha, yeah, I am kinda weird”.

But the right wing is built on the misconception that they are “normal” and everything else is a problem. They’re the only ones that could ever be bothered by being told they’re weird, because it deconstructs the very foundation of their beliefs. Without the core of “we are normal and everyone else is causing problems in our normal society” backing up their every decision to threaten others over the religon, sexuality or life choices of others, they instead have to face reality: it’s normal to be a little weird, and it’s normal for some of that weird stuff to take root and become normal. And to refuse it and obsess over it is, in its own way, kinda weird.

banazir ,
@banazir@lemmy.ml avatar

Yes, yes I am.

Unbecredible ,

Weird just means unusual (with slight negative connotations already) . So to use “weird” as an unqualified insult is to say that being unusual is a negative thing in itself. Which echoes the sentiment behind things like xenophobia and such. That’s why people are uncomfortable with this line of political attack, imo.

To say “there’s good weird and bad weird” doesn’t say much more than that there are ways of being unusual that you view positively and those that you view negatively. But that’s obvious and doesn’t resolve the issue I mentioned before.

ChronosTriggerWarning OP ,

I disagree that weird automatically carries negative connotations. “Keep Austin Weird” comes to mind.

Notyou ,

Also Weird AL or Hanson playing the song Weird.

terminhell ,

Yes

Sanctus ,
@Sanctus@lemmy.world avatar

If you like the word you’re the good kind. If it offends you, well, you’re weird.

ChronosTriggerWarning OP ,

Ding ding ding! That’s how i see it too.

BugleFingers ,

That entirely depends on YOU

All I can say is I’m not a bad person (I’d like to think)

Sumocat ,
@Sumocat@lemmy.world avatar

There are those who sing “I’m a creep, I’m a weirdo,” and those who claim to be “the opposite of weird.”

Senseless ,

Some of both I guess.

Mouselemming ,

Are you fascinated with the menstrual cycles of strangers? You want to look into the underwear of everyone before letting them into the public bathroom? You so grossed out by other people’s consensual sex practices you want to take away their civil rights? You want trans children to cower in fear, and all the children to be surrounded by guns? You want women to know their place and shut their mouths? And black people to stick to menial jobs so you can kick all the brown people out of the country?

Or are you normal weird, i.e. partly fun weird and partly sad weird?

gAlienLifeform ,
@gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world avatar

Boo Radley weird vs Bob Ewell weird

jerkface ,
@jerkface@lemmy.ca avatar

I guess when I hear people derisively calling someone gay, I just think to myself, “They mean the bad kind of gay, they’re not talking about me.”

Mouselemming ,

Like, uppity gay?

ChronosTriggerWarning OP ,

Yeah, kinda like that gay pride image of Putin. It’s mocking him and his draconian views of gay people, not gay people themselves.

MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown ,

I bet Austin is having a blast with this shenanigans.

jerkface ,
@jerkface@lemmy.ca avatar

No. There is not a distinction. We’ve been working for decades to make weird okay. Fuck them for throwing us under the bus.

ChronosTriggerWarning OP ,

Weird is okay! It’s them freaking out at being called weird that’s actually, well, weird.

Sam_Bass ,

The different kinds of weird get lumped together in the media though

ChronosTriggerWarning OP ,

And that’s why i hope to clarify.

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