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Trump was slapped with "weird" label back in 2006, while lusting over daughter Ivanka (video) [1]
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Date: 2024-08-02 18:53:13+00:00
I think it’s been said in these parts that at least part of the power of ‘weird’ is in its flexibility.
They can’t pick it up and throw it back, because for the people using it as an insult against them, it’s a good thing. It’s polysemantic: the ‘weird’ we’re calling them is not the same ‘weird’ as the ‘weird’ we ourselves wear proudly. There’s good weird and bad weird and context makes it clear which is which. When they hear it applied to them, it doesn’t matter which meaning they understand it to be, because they’re clearly ok with being creepy bad weird. Some of them are proud of it, the rest are ok standing beside it. They have a problem with being called that, because the worst thing they can think of being is the sort of weird that they keep calling us, and we own (see point 1).
They know what we mean when we call them weird, and the semantics mean they can’t ‘I’m rubber and you’re glue’ it.
Oh god, it literally just struck me now why they hate it: their usual trick of projection doesn’t work on it. Their usual trick of accusing their opponents of what they’re guilty of doesn’t work with weird, because they can’t stand it, and we’re proud of it.
Calling them weird is the worst thing we can accuse them of. Us being called weird is being threatened with a good time.
Their only rhetorical trick is broken, and they don’t have anything else except naked blatant fascism.
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