# Who's "Weird"?  ## Metadata - Author: [[Noahpinion]] - Full Title: Who's "Weird"? - Category: #articles - Summary: insert summary - My notes: - Summary: The term "weird" reflects the cultural divide in America, where conservatives feel it marks them as outsiders while liberals embrace it as a sign of self-expression. This tension has roots in past culture wars, with Republicans feeling the sting of defeat and Democrats using "weird" to describe the chaos of recent political events. As political landscapes change, both sides are navigating their identities in a society that feels increasingly unstable and divided. ## LLM Chats ## NotebookLM ## LLM Audio ## Highlights > Instead, it was *conservatives* who felt out of place in the liberal knowledge-worker enclaves that my generation carved out. If you admitted to being gay in my hometown, you might have been shunned, or even bullied; in San Francisco in the 2010s, it would be as normal as admitting you were left-handed. But whereas if you declared that “Christ is King” in my hometown, you would have elicited nods of assent from most people, if you declared that in a room full of Silicon Valley tech workers in 2015, you might generate some uncomfortable stares. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01j4486a8g4ctxxq6g1tce76ae))