"Snowflake" rage

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As in, "delicate little snowflake".

... I think this is one of the most loathsomely trite putdowns with no compassion behind it. It instantly makes me think the speaker is a sneery, nasty person.

Anyone else feel the fury when they see someone writing this?!

Really? Venezuela?

It is a very useful term - it helps you spot intellectually limited, lazy, bitter, late-to-the-party-of-fashionable-insults people.

Gosh! Have you looked at what's happened to Venezuela in the last decade? Intellectually limited? No not really. Two degrees.

Lazy? Bitter? Late to the party fashionable insults? Sorry, sweetie, I was the party in the 1970s. I have worked my little tushie off, and seen, watched and read the intellectual debate unroll since the 1970s. Immune to the Momentum feel good promises, because they are moonshine.

I think it's very rude. I hate the inter-generational war that keeps being thrust upon up.
By all means say that someone is not stoic enough or a wimp but the particular term is obnoxious.

Venezuela? Pfft. Try Norway

I am very familiar with Venezuela; the issues there certainly go back more than 10 years and have very little to do with the UK and the use of the term snowflake. And yes, your post is off topic.

HTH

I'm pretty dismissive when it's used in a derogatory manner because if enough snowflakes come together they can cause an avalanche

I think it's overused but in some cases it is certainly an appropriate term

Another who agree with this

Social media encourages this inward looking self obsessiveness and more and more people are become totally self absorbed do they not tire of themselves and other like them

Snowflake is rude. I wouldn't use the term, except in person and affectionately. Inter-generational war is being stoked by Momentum claiming that the generation that grew up/came of age in the 70s were cossetted.

To remind people, then 5% of the population went to university and most people's tax payments supported them to do so, in the interest of the greater good. Now 45% do, and society doesn't need so many professionals (most of whom ultimately do jobs (perfectly competently) that were done by 16 year old people with 5 O levels in the 70s). We have fallen in love with qualifications and failed to see competence and capability, or rather we assume a tertiary level qualification is evidence of competence.

Professionally, we deal with degree qualified engineers, and many would struggle to organise a p*ss up in a brewery, to quote a very 1970s insult!

Sometimes, as others have said it's true. Had lunch with a friend recently, her daughter mid twenties between jobs wanted to join us, she was at their home less than 10 miles away, friend wanted to go back to collect her, although the daughter has her own car, but parking can be a problem where we were, however there are frequent buses, so I suggested to friend, "can't she just jump on a bus", to which friend responded "no she won't get on a bus"

I probably had some "snowflake" characteristics when I was younger. They came from an abusive childhood and lots of things freaking me out as a result of psychological damage, so no I don't like the term.

The idea of a special snowflake is kind of a spin on the Animal Farm concept of equality. The special snowflake thinks it's more unique than all the other unique snowflakes and generally thinks special considerations should be made for them.

However, it's become so overused that its meaning has become diluted to a crap insult.

The real people in control are those in the upper levels of the financial industry and large corporations. And their Tory bench people.

I suspect most of us are snowflakes as teenagers. It's those who don't grow out of it that I worry about!

How nice to see you, Make. Did Momentum HQ tip you off there was a small contretemps?

You can generally tell someone who's been following right wing American Twitter accounts as they suddenly using words like 'snowflake', 'libtard' and 'butt hurt'.

Oh and 'cuck'! Which I gather indicates a fear among some sad little white men that they'll be sexually usurped by a black man.

I've seen it used on MN but never anywhere else. OP where do you see or hear this?

Agree it's overused on here, but people often revert to MN (or other forum) cliches.

Rules me right out then. Don't know the last two pejoratives at all; translations, please, Scrumpernickel? ,

Snowflake is nothing like "libtard". What a disgusting word.

Butt hurt... isn't that a term thrown around by die hard fans of the potus? How annoying if that bunch have commandeered a perfectly good insult, (by which I mean snowflake btw).

Well 'libtard' is shorthand for liberal retard (I presume) and butt hurt seems to mean a poor loser.

Snotflake is infinitely more insulting.

'Snowflake' is an insult used by fascists for left wing people who are against racism etc.

The best meme I have seen is combat this is a ww2 photo of dead SS men lying in Russian snow with the words 'snowflakes killed the Nazis'... (sorry if that offends anyone but I hate Nazis).

Snowflake is nothing like "libtard".

No but it's often favoured by those who also favour 'libtard'.

Ugh. I'm thoroughly pissed off that racist cunts have stolen this term. I have no choice no but to boycott.

*no choice now