People who use the term 'snowflake'?

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Aren't the brightest bunch are they?

It's like a script isn't it? Something picked up from the daily mail or another equivalent hate-rag, to shout at people who have the audacity to care about someone other than themselves. It appears to give the user a sense of superiority over someone, when they are just throwing words they like the sound of because they've seen it used to bully others before.

I find it often ties in with people who use multiple exclamation marks after a space. !!!

(Honestly, have a look for the multiple exclamation marks after a space. It's almost poetic.)

I know I probably ABU, but the level of stupidity on this planet at the moment baffles me.

It takes a particular view of the world to sneer at people who try to do something good, decent or helpful.

This. I posted the other day about how horrific it was that kids my son's age were being tear gassed and got called a snowflake.

Snowflakes, virtue signallers and champagne socialists I generally think are just pleasant, caring individuals being addressed by utter bastards.

Obviously posting about it wasn't me doing anything good but you know what I mean.

I do not use it, But like a pp poster I always thought it was used to describe and shut someone up for been over sensitive or offended.

I think of it as referring to the vain and petulant "special snowflake" attitude rather than a particular type of voter.

I had never heard the term Gammon before last week and had to google it! I see it everywhere now.

A family member calls people snowflakes all the time because they are so delicate that they melt. People who haven’t been to war (he hasn’t either), who don’t believe in brexit or who were given a free council house but aren’t white.

I use lots of exclamation marks and the interrobang?! Is it the space that annoys you or the three in a row?

Tends to be used by people that will write FACT followed by an opinion based on anything but fact.

I quite like the term snowflake to describe people who are professionally offended at everything.

I think 'snowflakeyness' is pretty dangerous for our free speech society. Snowflakes (IME) are people who want to police language because of their own subjective offence.

Snowflakes to me are people all hurt by their feelz at words other people say. I don't think anyone gets to chose what other people think and the snowflake takes this even further by manipulating their feelz. Its pathetic yet also massively common

I don't see anything wrong with it.

Some people are snowflakes.

IamPickleRick. It's the space. It's definitely the space! I love an exclamation mark, and I've been known to dabble with 2 or more on occasion, but why the space?! I've noticed it always occurs with posters of a certain mentality. Brexit has been a nightmare for the space/3 exclamation marks.

Judging by the Brexit threads on here the "triggered" "snowflakes " are generally No Deal supporters. Don't like people challenging them with pesky facts or pesky reality.

Interesting article on the radio a couple of weeks ago about this kind of thing. Very briefly; using these terms allows us to depersonalise people and makes us more willing/confident to insult them. What we wouldn't say to an individual we are happy to say in this anonymous way. Really interesting thinking which resonated with me.

^^This!

You're a SNOWFLAKE, OP!!!!!!!!
I don't know anyone who uses snowflake or gammon in my normal everyday life. My DSs are millennials and we laugh like drains over this nonsense. Surely it's centred around silly stories in the papers and on the internet. For example students using jazz hands rather than clapping.

I've heard lots of intelligent people use this term.

I suspect the people pouting that only 'stupid' people use it are a bit snowflakey themselves.

Snowflakes, virtue signallers and champagne socialists I generally think are just pleasant, caring individuals being addressed by utter bastards.

This is the issue right here is one sentence.

Professional offense-takers, virtue signalers so this because they want to look good. How can a white person be offended by racism towards a black person? Yes, they can be pissed off, disgusted etc. but offended? I don't think so. Offence can only be taken if it directly impacts you as an individual, disregards you as an individual.

Yet what we get is people who are not directly affected by things, virtue signalling their own 'offence'. Its rubbish.

And then what happens if someone points it out is they are a bastard right winger nazi. Virtue signaling is absolutely out of control. People with no affiliation to causes just joining up, signing on the dotted line, because it would look awful not to and I must look good

Mooncuplanding, I understand where you are coming from. Free speech is important, but doesn't that give anyone the right to say anything? Even if that is 'I'm offended by this.' Perhaps they're a snowflake for being offended, but it's their free speech and if you're offended by that, you are a snowflake too.

Also, there must be a line. Sexual abuse in the workplace, a man gropes a women's arse. She wasn't hurt. Is she a snowflake? People caring about children being tear gassed, snowflake? When did we become so inhumane and aloof?

Perhaps it's being misused a lot. It seems many people have many ways of understanding the word.

I hate the term ever since a school bully's mum used it for the child with SENs that her child had been targeting.

Deliberately sneaking peanuts into school and using them to terrorise a boy with serious nut allergies is not a 'joke' and the boy having nightmares afterwards does not make him a snowflake.

I see it as a way for the overbearing to scapegoat others and accuse them of being oversensitive and pathetic when they themselves are at fault.

Also, there must be a line. Sexual abuse in the workplace, a man gropes a women's arse. She wasn't hurt. Is she a snowflake? People caring about children being tear gassed, snowflake? When did we become so inhumane and aloof? I think you've got the wrong end of the stick

Are you repeatedly using the term "boils my piss" to be irritating?

Another recent saying that is lazy and overused. It's as horrible as snowflake is

All throughout history people have been taking issues that are not of their own and acting upon them to make a better future for all.

Does this mean they're all snowflakes? Is this a bad thing?

FWIW, I actively invite people to call me a snowflake. If being a snowflake associates me with a list of people such as Octavia Hill, then that's totally fine.

My opinion of you calling me that and thinking it's an insult though

I always apply the term snowflake to someone without the nous to help themselves who fall apart at the slightest hint of difficulty and always need a handheld.
This apply across political backgrounds.

Derxa, it was said upthread. A previous poster was called a snowflake for caring that children were being teargassed. And my example of sexual abuse is exaggerated to confer the stupidity of using the term snowflake as a justification to offend someone.

I think we need a dictionary of new phrases and their comparative old ones
Snowflake= PC gone mad
Millenial= The thing about young people these days
Made in Chelsea brigade= Sloane Ranger
Jacob Rees Mogg = Old Fogey (cunt)

I'd always assumed that snowflake referred to someone who thought themselves more special, than everyone else. Or that their children were- I.e. participation medals, going to the school because Johnny didn't get the part in the school play he deserved, etc. interesting to see there are different perceptions of the term.

Sheswhat, apologies, I hadn't realised I'd used it twice.