The new slur of the left for those of us who won't conform is "Weird."
Apparently "Deplorables" has lost its sheen, and "ultra Maga" (Ultra Maga assemble!) is no longer working, so now we must be stigmatized as weird.
To say this is bizarre is an understatement. It's also a symptom of their losing the etymological war. Oh, and the ontological war too, while we're at it.
You see, for years now, the left has anchored its power on two things:
1- being able to define what "bad word" their enemies are, a single bad word, which, whether it makes sense or not, puts you outside the overton window and makes you someone to shun and disparage. An untermensch if you will. A no-man.
2- being able to define which ways of being render you untouchable. "If you are this way, whether a characteristic of birth or acquired, or just the way you prefer to be, it makes you the enemy."
The two can work together and often do. So, if you are, say, an anti-Marxist, that both makes you "stupid" and therefore untouchable. "Well, she's really dumb. She doesn't even understand Marxist dance theory, and that it's the only way to interpret modern dance." This is a bit on the nose, of course, but something like this would be the code phrase that rendered you unhirable for anything from art criticism to serving coffee at the local coffee house.
It would also make people laugh behind their hands at you, and ascribe all sorts of other characteristics to you, in sort of a reflexive cloud-grouping. So if you were anti-Marxist they would adduce traditionalist, easily shocked, very religious, not very educated, etc. etc. etc.
It is that sort of grouping that caused people in the early days of this blog to come here and yell at us that if either I or my commenters had ever finished highschool or left the deep South we'd think differently. It's also behind their forlorn foghorn of "educate yourself" which really means "Fall in line with my mental categories, and behave as I want you to."
Because this started breaking down, they had to try to resort to more overt stigmatizing. Which led to racist, sexist, homophobe, leading to the absolutely hilarious moment during a late in-field kerfuffle when a blog accused me of homophobia, a year after the publication of A Few Good Men. (Oh, I'm sure they would come up with a justification. You see, REAL gay people can't be USAian, therefore I must be writing them wrong because I hate them. But it's stupid, and even they know it's stupid.)
Their old stigmatizing of "stupid" doesn't work, as not only have a lot of us with advanced degrees from institutions THEY respect are coming out of the closet as conservative, but it's becoming glaringly obvious most of their leading lights are utterly brainless, like the current candidate for the presidency on the dem side. Or their previous one.
So they tried deplorables, which because Hilary is old is almost charming. It's like she called us ne'er do wells or rogues. Of course, it was immediately seized up, ran with, worn as a badge of pride and in online names etc. I honestly can't figure out how they expected anything else, except they had their sense of humor ablated at birth.
And then there is Ultra Maga. I keep trying to get my favorite artist to do a picture of a Maga Superhero, whatever that would look like, in a power-pose with Ultra Maga, Assemble! But they don't get that either, and hence the red speech and the insistance that this that and the other thing are "ultra MAGA."
Except that too didn't bring opprobrium. And they're desperate.
So the new thing is to call married men with children "incels" which of course means involuntary celibates. Which has ALL OF US laughing into our hands, because either they don't understand how children are made, or they've lost their minds. (Narrator voice: They lost their minds.)
When that kind of glanced off us with a "LOLWUT?" they then resorted to "Weird."
There are multiple problems with that. It starts with the fact that well... weird is rather a province of the left, from weird hair colors to weird neurological groupings, where people make their disability their identity.
But they're now trying to claim the ultimate ontological beach head by defining that as "normal" and you know, being married, having kids, working a full time job, etc as "Weird." Oh, and being male as "weird."
They're not going to succeed. They don't realize they're no longer "the youth" however defined.
To be fair, they kept that badge as "the youth" far too long, riding on the boomers being generally understood to be left (even when it was not true) and the fact that "the boomers" for a long time took one more year every year, till a generation -- not a genealogical generation but a commercial and experiential one defined as "babies born of parents returning from WWII" included people whose parents weren't born by WWII -- so that they were "forever young." But that was a battle they'd lose, anyway, and they have. "Boomer" now means "Old" and heck, "Millennial" now sounds old. And each generation being not only smaller, but by virtue of our bizarre leftist regulations and governance that make adulthood and entrance into the workforce difficult, increasingly more desenfranchised and poorer, they don't have that kind of power as to make a bizarre way of life "normal" and normality "weird."
I'd expect that new definition of weird to hit the movies, TV, youtube, lefty media all over, at the same time, in coordination. It's their modus operandi.
But it won't work. Why won't it work?
Well, it would have worked on THEM. The leftists remaining are creatures of group and consensus. They couldn't stand to be out of step, strange, considered not hip.
They don't realize those of us who clawed our way out of a Marxist Leninist mind set DESPITE all means of indoctrination aimed at us are, by definition, immune to group-shaming and calls for us to fall back in line.
They don't understand we've been out of the mainstream so long, we're comfortable here.
Weird? Sure, we're weird, and frankly the fact that many of us have happy marriages and families is not our weirdness. We have far more weird things we think/do/believe/work at.
Weird? You call us weird like it's a bad thing.
Yes, we are weird. And together we'll build a beautiful weirdness.
One in which the NPC greyness of fake weird will feel so out of place they'll need to fit in with us and adapt to our weirdness.
They'll never be free-thinkers, poor things. There's something intrinsically broken in them that forbids it.
But with work and care, they might be able to fake it, and not be quite so boring, speaking only in echos.
Sure, go ahead, call us weird. That was a badge of honor before you even started finger-pointing and screaming.
I predict by the end of today there will be t-shirts with "Weird by choice" and "Get with the program, be weird."
There is no one here but we weirdos, and in our chaotic lack of conformity, we're a target they can't begin to hit.
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