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[/QUOTE]Ironically you are using Tomi Lahren as source material, a conservative snowflake.[/QUOTE]
Full article here:
https://thinkprogress.org/all-the-special-snowflakes-aaf1a922f37b/
Snowflake has snowballed.
Before last year, snowflake-as-slang lingered on the fringes of the lexicon. It was a largely non-partisan slight — a mean, though not hateful, dig at millennials perceived to have an outsize sense of their own individuality and, by extension, importance. Helicopter parented to the hilt, millennials supposedly graduated from college (into a dismal economy with unprecedented mountains of student debt) too coddled for this cruel world, ill-equipped to face life’s indignities with dignity.
But as 2016 dawned, snowflake made its way to the mainstream and, in the process, evolved into something more vicious. The insult expanded to encompass not just the young but liberals of all ages; it became the epithet of choice for right-wingers to fling at anyone who could be accused of being too easily offended, too in need of “safe spaces,” too fragile.
You can see this linguistic evolution play out on Urban Dictionary: The 2008 definition of snowflake was “a person who think they are OMGUNIQUE!, but is, in fact, just like everyone else.” That was redefined in May of 2016 as “an overly sensitive person, incapable of dealing with any opinions that differ from their own. These people can often be seen congregating in ‘safe zones’ on college campuses.” A more aggressive definition went up the following month: “An entitled millenial SJW-tard who runs to her “safe space” to play with stress toys and coloring books when she gets ‘triggered” by various innocuous “microsaggressions’ [sic].”
fight club:
That use very likely has its genesis in Chuck Palahniuk's 1996 cult-favorite book Fight Club, in which a member of the anti-consumerist Project Mayhem tells the other members:
"You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You are the same decaying organic matter as everyone, and we are all part of the same compost pile."
Full article here:
https://thinkprogress.org/all-the-special-snowflakes-aaf1a922f37b/
Snowflake has snowballed.
Before last year, snowflake-as-slang lingered on the fringes of the lexicon. It was a largely non-partisan slight — a mean, though not hateful, dig at millennials perceived to have an outsize sense of their own individuality and, by extension, importance. Helicopter parented to the hilt, millennials supposedly graduated from college (into a dismal economy with unprecedented mountains of student debt) too coddled for this cruel world, ill-equipped to face life’s indignities with dignity.
But as 2016 dawned, snowflake made its way to the mainstream and, in the process, evolved into something more vicious. The insult expanded to encompass not just the young but liberals of all ages; it became the epithet of choice for right-wingers to fling at anyone who could be accused of being too easily offended, too in need of “safe spaces,” too fragile.
You can see this linguistic evolution play out on Urban Dictionary: The 2008 definition of snowflake was “a person who think they are OMGUNIQUE!, but is, in fact, just like everyone else.” That was redefined in May of 2016 as “an overly sensitive person, incapable of dealing with any opinions that differ from their own. These people can often be seen congregating in ‘safe zones’ on college campuses.” A more aggressive definition went up the following month: “An entitled millenial SJW-tard who runs to her “safe space” to play with stress toys and coloring books when she gets ‘triggered” by various innocuous “microsaggressions’ [sic].”
fight club:
That use very likely has its genesis in Chuck Palahniuk's 1996 cult-favorite book Fight Club, in which a member of the anti-consumerist Project Mayhem tells the other members:
"You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You are the same decaying organic matter as everyone, and we are all part of the same compost pile."
How am I all of a sudden associated with them? Are you totally fucked or what?
Yes, but the pendulum swings, when liberals get the change they want, they become conservatives and the conservatives become liberals. My concern is that the snowflakes who require safe spaces will be completely unprepared when the harsh realities of life truly start to come into focus. You can give a man a fish and... I don't think anyone here is truly a snowflake, they would have already been triggered and run off to their safe spaces because they can't handle the micro aggressions.
Hardly. The kkk can't become the righteous for minority issues one day and no one question it.
Give it 100 years or they might go by different name... People are already tearing downstatues, banning books... The youngest generation will be lucky if they learn about WW1. History doesn't repeat itself, but it often rhymes...
I'm not talking about vigilantes, I'm talking about when the left finally get all the things they are fighting for, they will become conservative because they will want to keep what they have fought for. Conservatives will become liberals because they will want to change something about the status quo. I can't picture what it will be like but it happens...
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I'll have you know he's not just a good debater, he is a master debater and stop correcting him, he's also a cunning linguist!
What truth is that exactly?And what agenda?
Let's recap.
We went from justifying the actions that "snowflakes " take, one justification is that the government now takes their issues more seriously (mission accomplished). To the government consisting entirely of pedophiles... so what's your point here?
Is your point that since snowflakes manipulated the system to get what they want and that it somehow doesn't count because the government is a bunch of pedophiles? I'm gonna push back and say it counts more to get a win from a bunch of shitty people, than a bunch of open-minded, good-hearted people.
You mean the same KKK who was marching along side the Neo-Nazis at the “Unite the Right” torch carrying rally that turned deadly when some conservative asshole ran people over with his car and then Trump dismissed them as “some very good people”?
Of course that dude wasn’t a terrorist...just immigrants.
So brilliant!
*sigh*
(I’ll post the whole article in my thread later)
Just something that certain people here might find interesting to read and/or incorporate into their thought process possibly?
(I’ll post the whole article in my thread later)
Just something that certain people here might find interesting to read and/or incorporate into their thought process possibly?
I don't think we are saying there aren't douchbags on the extreme right, there are absolutely, but I think we are currently discussing the douchbags on the far left. I think the point is that the whole point is that snowflakes are trying to convince a generation that when the going gets tough, go to your safe space. They tried stress cards in the military, when you were stressed out you put a red card and the drill instructor was supposed to take it easy on you. The enemy, robber, rapist whatever, is not gonna care if your triggered and you need to go to your safe space... Are there douchebags on the right, absolutely, but I'm curious I never got a look at the driver of that car, anybody get a name or read a non politized article about the driver that wasn't speculating? Certainly, was a huge media win for the left! The driver should switch sides...
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