Rant: I hate the term “normie”.

Let me preface by saying, I would love to hear counter points and am fully open to the fact that I could be wrong and totally out of touch. I just want to have some dialogue around something that’s been bothering me in the fediverse....

https://kbin.social/m/fediverse@lemmy.world/t/148455

Rant: I hate the term “normie”. - fediverse - kbin.social

Let me preface by saying, I would love to hear counter points and am fully open to the fact that I could be wrong and totally out of touch. I just want to have some dialogue around something that’s been bothering me in the fediverse....

Or…

“Normie” shows a hint of self awareness that the people on this platform aren’t representative of the general public. Were a bunch of tech weirdos.

We’re the “abnormies”.

I guess that’s something I didn’t consider. I kind of feel like that is still creating an us vs them mentality though…
But that’s pretty much what a group of people is? The people who are inside the group and those that are outside. What is the problem with this?

You missed to very key letters here. Here’s the original statement with the two key letters highlighted:

[…]creating an us →vs← them mentality though…

Nobody that I’ve seen here has said that there is no “in” or “out” vis a vis the group. The objection is over those two key letters.