I think "weirdness points" is a subset of a larger idea.

For example Martin Luther King Jr. had great success when he was pushing for one idea, racial equality. Then a year before he was assassinated, he publicly turned to a wider range of causes. He came out against the Vietnam War at a time when most were supporting it. He announced his support for economic equality. History judged him right, but his timing might have been wrong.

Because of his early stance against the war, he lost many of his mainstream supporters. His fight for racial equality started to sputter.

Maybe this is an exact application of weirdness points? But it seems like something bigger is at work here, and weirdness points are a subset of this bigger idea.