I have mixed feelings about “weird” discourse because I was proudly “weird” for many years. It’s a word my family has used as a self-descriptor long before it became a popular subcultural metonym for “cool”. I think diversity is good and on some level a diverse group of people involves tolerating, even celebrating, some level of “weirdness”

BUT …🧵

The reason we were even “reclaiming” this term in the first place was because of bigots who want only their way of life to be “normal”. Christofascist weirdoes who didn’t like our atheism, cruel children who would (not even kidding) bully me for having a dead mother, the sort of people who never left their hometown being confused and repelled by my immigrant heritage. And, you know, regular ol’ anti-semites. And honestly that *is* the minority, “weird” view.

To paraphrase a great philosopher of our time, “Why should we change? They’re the ones who suck.”

So yeah, I am on board, the MAGA chuds are all freaks and weirdoes and should be mocked as such. It is very normal and good to like diversity, actually. And what brought me around on this is that they can never *accept* the label as we did for so long, because they *must* insist that they get to *decide* who is normal and natural and valid. But they don’t any more. They’re weird.

@glyph Is the difference perhaps that “they” want to impose their weirdness on other people whereas “we” want our weirdness to be accepted?

@alpha a lot of “us” would be happy even if all “they” did was to stop attempting to punish our weirdness; “we” can accept each other just fine