I think this is a case of selection bias in action. If you don't spend time in furry-dedicated spaces then by definition the furries you're gonna notice are the ones who are really loud about it. I do everything I can to decouple my furry identity from my non-furry identity (outside of mentioning the fact that I am one and that I have a particular fondness for bugs) as a matter of infosec because I'm well aware of the capacity of fascists and fash-adjacents to make my life unpleasant over it.
I assume that such a vague and useless comment is either an attempt to rile me up or trying to pull the old trick of "winning by acting like you're winning." Not worth engaging with either way.
"You assumed 'normal' meant what it almost always means instead of inferring a highly specific and unusual definition of it" = "You're reading too much into this"? What?
That feels like a very unusual and idiosyncratic definition of "normal" to me. Like you say "not being a BlueAnon person" but statistically there are way more BlueAnon people in the US than there are Marxist-Leninists, and they're given much greater legitimacy by at least a section of the mainstream media. It seems to be that by any reasonable definition it's BlueAnon that are the normal ones.
Yeah, that's the problem with the slogan I think. "Normal" is such a vague and loaded term whose negation ("weird"/"abnormal") often gets weaponized against disabled and LGBT people. One can take many different meanings from "be normal."
Early Chapo Trap House had the beneficial innovation of targeting fascist insecurities by focusing on how off-putting and pathetic they are but yeah I think the "dirtbag left" has outlived its usefulness by several years
Social conservatives and conservatives in general are NOT normal at all- they are in fact extremely weird.
Yeah so am I, but I don't think that's the problem with them
Like to take one example, being a vegan in the US makes me "not normal." It's a fringe movement that maybe ~1% of the population follows and that puts me at odds with how the entire rest of my society thinks about the ethics of our relationships with animals. It's weird by any meaningful definition, but it's also a part of myself I consider non-negotiable.
when I came out as ace, like formally told people that I've figured out something important about myself, the only positive responses I got were from other queer folk. Every cishet person I knew simply didn't understand, or just wanted to pathologize and/or mock me.
...which makes it all the more bitterly ironic when ace people get accused of "co-opting queer identity" (as a bi man who uncontroversially falls under the LGBT umbrella, anyone who levels that accusation at ace people can fuck right off).
If by "the thing" you mean "blocking you and anyone else who says this," you're correct