So I've recently had an argument with someone about the use of the word normie. They claimed that they weren't calling people normies is not an insult while I said that the word as used in the modern day is an insult. So I've decided to ask people here there opinion on the use of the word. Is it an insult or not.

It is usually used to call other people sheeps.

Every word can be an insult if said with the intention of hurting and/or making fun of someone, and even the biggest slur doesn't need to be taken as an insult in the appropiate contexts.

Yes, its an insult for people who think there's any value in the status quo, used often by progressives who think society needs to be radically altered because there's not sufficient equality of outcome between people

For example, someone who believes women get paid 77 cents on every dollar a man earns may call someone who does not believe this a "normie", since from that first person's perspective, the latter's ignorance is holding society back from a state where women will be paid 100 cents to every dollar a man earns.

People should have thicker skin these days.

So do you think its not an insult? I've alway found that the word implies that the one saying it is better than the subject. If you said you enjoyed something popular and you were dismissed as a 'normie', would you not think that is an insult?

No, it's not an insult. It's an "Okay, whatever", because there would probably be some other area where I would be more interested in the niche thing instead of the 'normie' thing.

Wanted to say the same.

Of course, you jokingly say something to someone and not really mean. 

But I'm talking about when someone means what they say. Because calling someone a normie without irony means you consider them lesser because they enjoy popular things. It's more the superiority complex part that that annoys me than anything else.

It's basically the millennial way of calling somebody a conformist, which, yeah, I think qualifies an an insult. It's also something I've never been called for some odd reason.