Almost every word has been used as insult against someone somewhere. From weird, to annoying, to dumbass, to worthless, to useless, to demonic, to motherfucker, and so on. If I can’t call a piece of shit weird for being obsessed with people’s genitals while chatting with teenagers online, I don’t know what to tell ya

My feeling is that Democrats are drunk with power after hitting a successful line of attack for once in their lives and are about 75% of the way through running it into the ground

I think it's pretty funny when the are you triggered crowd explodes over something inoffensive.

My response to being told to vote for Copmala

the reason it works to call them weird is literally their entire ideology is based around being as normal as possible. it shatters their brain because the people they think are weird are in actuality far less off-putting than someone who constant polices other's behavior, and they can't actually deny that. So yes, it was used to ostracize plenty of queer people and neurodivergent people. That's the point, it's a direct that some dem just stumbled upon by chance.

I'M DRUNK BUT HUMANITY MUST STOP CAPITALISM FROM KILLING THE PLANET

I'm surprised the discourse went with queerphobic instead of ableist.
I think it's wrong and silly. It's just someone trying to have discourse (TM). But I also think it's silly that the hexbear party line is that "stupid" and "idiot" are ableist words, so what do I know?

I'm neurodivergent, queer and I was literally a minor once. Back when I was a gay little weirdo I got bullied a lot and "weird" wasn't what people were calling me. At least not as far as I can remember.

I feel like I'm talking in circles, I'm sorry.
Sometimes words are bad, and we all use those words, but the people who run society are seen more and they use the words more. So we get used to the words being used on us and then we see them being used on others and we think it has something to do with us. It doesn't. Except for the times when the words are actual slurs like the r-word or the n-word.
But suddenly a bad word gets more common usage and online opinion-havers will think it has something to do with them, because that's just how they are.

Same thing happened with "ok boomer". People talked about how the dismissal was like that used on ND people or how it was mean to the elderly or something.

I was actually amazed that calling conservatives weird worked at all. When I heard that Kamala Harris planned to call Trump weird if they debated, and that this was some kind of big strategy, I thought it sounded like the most toothless strategy I had ever heard. But now that I think about it, yes, they are weird, they're some of the weirdest fucking people on the planet, and nothing hurts like the truth, so I guess I can kind of believe it. It's still hard to imagine that the insult would hurt if you heard it from a lanyard, though.

As for it having an ableist or queerphobic resonance, that never really occurred to me. But I could see it morphing into that in the future if it lasts that long. Instead of an attack against conservatives it becomes some kind of "horseshoe theory" attack against the right and the left, and then all the queer and neurodivergent and disabled people on the left become "weird" too, while "normal" is a NATO-supporting warhawk neoliberal who wants to glass Ukraine and Palestine.

Tell me that this guy isn't weird:

The rhetoric is actually calling right wing shit weird. This has the effect of labelling the things they are throwing fits over as normal (like being gay)

Ultimately its normalizing queerness 🤷

This is nothing new to me. I’ve been calling my brain dead asshole “good normal folk”conservative in-laws weird for decades.

Think your kids shouldn’t hear about sex until 18, provide no protection whatsoever and then go into deep grief when they get pregnant in their teens? Weird.

Think the Bible is in English because Jesus walked (yes, on water) to England and had it translated? Weird.

Think we failed in Iraq because we weren’t doctrinally stringent enough with our application of violence, right down to every child and bird (yes, that specific)? Weird.

Have your whole family vaccinated ASAP for COVID, but you think people with ADHD are likely influenced by demons as an explanation for their behavior, despite holding a master’s in nursing? Then change your mind on the vaccines when your kids wind up having ADHD and scramble into months-long fugue state inducing mental breakdown to try and save your babies? Weird.

Insist on buying guns for your kid who has about the most egregiously spastic cerebral palsy imaginable, all so he can defend his home, it’s okay, he watches his brother play the Fortnite! He know how they work!” Home BTW is a squalid dump no one in their right mind would chance breaking into because he’s neglected and won’t use help? Then when his older brother joins the Marines (imagine the stupidest reason why you’d join and you got it) you engineer the purchase of a class III firearm and silencer for a Christmas present to take with him to basic training—not allowed—despite your trailer home falling down around your ears and you complaining about money constantly as your kids have to skip meals? WEIRD!

Sorry for the dump. Had to get some stuff off the chest.

Fascists are ultra conformists. They believe in a "normal" and want everything to conform to it. They see everything as outside that normal as "weird" and attack it.

The second comment is not incorrect in that this is what fascists do.

However, what it fails to recognise is that by calling fascists weird you're calling everything they claim is weird "normal". Thus the term does not apply to lgbt people or other marginalised nor is it harmful.

the dems are going to lose by being too twitter-style-online. funny as hell.

Some libs are uncomfortable to the realization that yes you can call out your opponent for being fucking crazy and call them weird, and also that the term weird used as an insult to marginalized groups now being turned against those that would oppress them is in my perspective a legitimate act of praxis by coupling the term weird to individuals way too obsessed over what kind of genitals people have and making sure your kids can't read books (while also being the kind of people that likely fuck random pieces of furniture).

By disengaging the term from the groups that would be oppressed by it instead connecting it to the oppressors there has been an act of cultural/linguistic liberation which makes fascists angry and uncomfortable because they in their minds are not supposed to be the "out group" like "those people" and so out grouping them makes them realize their mode of thinking is not normalized in society (an existential fear of all fascists and reactionaries).

Literally everyone on this site is a weirdo. But we don’t spend our whole lives trying to pretend that we’re something different. When you’re a weirdo and just beg for people to think of you as completely not it becomes very easy for people make fun of you. The libs are bullying conservatives. It’s the type of bullying we’ve been calling on for a long time.

I don't think being gay is weird. But if someone wants to check a kid's genitals before a sports competition, that's really weird.

If they are being weird then I'm calling them weird, I don't want to torture my brain trying to figure out if I shouldn't.

It's silly

There's a difference between being weird being weird.

See: "Baka got a weird case, why is he around"

I guess theres a big difference between “being weird” and “being interested in weird things” when “wierd” is used as an insult it’s because it’s an obsession which spills into how one interacts with people on a daily basis.

I mean, I'm sure I'm not the only one who wears queer as a badge of honor. This rando on Twitter is just being a weird dork, though.