Also a big problem I think people have is what they define "normie" as. I think when most people say they hate normies, they're not referring to normies. They're talking about a literal philistine. A censor/karen/magistrate.
Most "normies" I know talk about politics but have pretty base level takes. They're nuanced enough. They just kind of try to go with the flow for the purpose of survival and aren't aesthetically/mentally different from most, either because they don't want to stand out too much or they just are ordinary by default.
Normie: "Yeah, I heard that guy said the N word one time. That's kind of cringe man. Oh well. Yeah trans people are cool and I got no problems with them, I just don't like them being in sports. Anyways, you guys see the new game? *have fourty minute debate about sports*. I don't know, I'm mixed on getting Nike or Adidas. I like all kinds of music, but I really like mumble rap the most."
Puritan: "The guy who committed a faux pass shall not step foot fifty miles in my vicinity, and I personally think he shouldn't care if we deprive him of all means of survival for his trespasses. Wouldn't it be cool if we just harassed this person into killing themselves? I don't care if someone said a gamer word ten years ago, they shouldn't have ever said it in the first place! Silence is violence. You need to be plugged in! This is pushing us back 50 years. Enjoying things is racist, homophobic, colonialist, fascist."
Or...
"The west is devoid of all hope and it's because we're not censoring the RIGHT things. Why are people into hobbies anyways? The only thing that should be important in life is making kids (but not too much), working a boring job and owning a house. Who do people look at me wrong for saying gamer words every five seconds? Anyone who likes cartoons is a pedophile and we need to kill autists (which I'm not) and end this degeneracy plaguing humanity that started ten years ago. I need a pure white woman who is totally into someone like me. This is pushing us away from tradition. Enjoying things is Maoist, childish, semitic and pointless."
Most people aren't that, they just fall behind that group enough to live whenever they make a power grab.