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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.

banazir ,
@banazir@lemmy.ml avatar

Yes, yes I am.

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.

grrgyle ,

Exactly, exactly! To keep it going, I think their whole worldview is based on what’s “natural” and how their shitty behaviour and policies and ideas are normal and natural, because they view stereotypes about human nature (esp re sex, gender roles, race, family structures, etc) like these unshakeable institutions that they’re powerless to influence in any way.

When really it’s like, nah it hasn’t always been like this, and it will continue changing, forever.

Further, we can do the very difficult work of trying to change it in a way that benefits more of us!

feedum_sneedson ,

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

CitizenKong ,

Weird Al: good weird Trump: bad weird

It’s not rocket science.

SkyezOpen ,

I think I inspired this and I am thrilled.

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