People label because they are intellectually lazy. It's too easy to regurgitate what everyone else is saying, as well as stereotype. I get this all the time. Because I have SOME liberal views, I'm a snowflake who lives off the government teat, or in my parent's basement. I've got 3 acquaintances on Facebook who insinuate this. And I make more than all 3 of them combined. No big deal. Let 'em be stupid. That goes for those who stereotype all conservatives as racists and fascists, as well. Lazy.
I agree- there's a bit too much sensitivity out there. I tell you what makes me laugh- when you read some of these restaurant or hotel reviews on Yelp! It's like, "I went to YYY Restaurant, and it took them 3 minutes to greet us!!!" And other ridiculous **** like that. I understand if it's egregious, but you've got people out there who really do deserve to be called delicate, or a feather, or snowflake, or whatever. I've found that if you're doing what you truly love to do in life, you don't have time to be caught up in minutiae. You can accept others' opinions as valid even when you disagree with them. I've never put anyone on Ignore and never will (not that it's wrong, it's just not my thing). But it would be nice if we all could be a bit less sensitive about our political opinions. That includes me at the top of the list.
What generation raised these "snowflakes"?? Old (and young) conservatives people get offended by stupid **** all the time (i.e. "War on Christmas" or Dixie Chicks or Beyonce or whatever). This whole notion that every generation before now weren't full of whiny p*****s is just fallacy.
It always kinda cracks me up when old people b**** about the younger generations traits. These are your children and grandchildren you're speaking of. You helped raise them to be this way and you're upset with the result. Like people b****ing about participation trophies. You're the generation of parents that thought giving your five year old kids trophies was a good idea in the first place. Kids didn't go out and buy them. Kids didn't think of the idea. It's the older generation of parents feeding their kids the idea that they're special snowflakes and are now upset about it. What the ****? Own up to your part in that mess then.
For some the worst aspect of being exposed as a bigot was not any retribution from the offended group, but being judged or excluded by other whites. Co-opting and satirizing the SJW moniker and separately coining the phrase snowflake allows those bigots to personify and stigmatize the subset of whites who will routinely call them on their hatred.
Don't be stupid, the "phrase" snowflake is not a new thing. How is anyone to take what you are trying to say seriously when you try to pass off obviously false nonsense like this as fact? Here's an incredibly popular example of the "phrase" being used in 1999.... It's nothing new at all, what is new is that there are more whiny little b****es today that it describes and there are people you don't like using the "phrase"
The alt-right always spins things to make it a problem about liberals. Liberals say something offensive? Then they must hate god, the police, white people, America and are trying to insight crime. Conservatives say something offensive and liberals object that it's not right? Then the Liberals are being PC effing snowflakes / SJW / safe space crybabies.
It's the same on both sides though, people join their team(declare their selves to a party), and pickup on the hot words everybody else on their team uses (likely from cable news, social media) to insult the opposing team. To me it makes all involved look pathetic, grown men and women turning into bickering children full of rage going back in forth on ideologies they didn't even create, all behind the name of politics.
Chapelle's first special touched on this. The fact that we're bombarded daily with things to care to the point where we don't act meaningfully only to end up angry about everything. It's true. It's easy to make observations from the third person. Much harder to fix and fight in the first. But the word snowflake is a fitting description for the entitlement we see in some people. And I don't mean legit eye opening hardship. The difference between that and First World Problems is clear, but they're both under the umbrella of entitlement. Entitlement is a word that makes most Americans shudder in their cultural DNA, and it's not only among conservatives. For liberals, you have a reflexive disdain for white privilege or male privilege... That's not even touching on the privilege of the elite and wealthy. For conservatives, entitlement is like letting the whiners win in the face of everyone dealing with their own hardships, whether it be historically discriminated minorities, LGBTQ, or the disabled. Throwing the word around in here is part of the nastiness of throwing around that entitlement hot potato. We all want what's fair. It's just that we see and view fairness differently. We're entitled to be nasty in the face of seeing the unjustness and unfairness of the other.
I've said this before as well but some here have selective memory. The thing is, we understood that it wasn't like getting the real trophy for winning a league, etc. I have them for my YMCA soccer and baseball teams of the 80's but NEVER thought of them as an affirmation of my special snowflake status. We knew that they were just a momento just like my champion football trophies were the "real deal".
And very little is as obnoxious and b****y and whiny as the things you mentioned. Add to that the "war on whites". You could easily change the GOP logo from the elephant to the WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHMBULANCE.
Great question--society? Parents? youth sports organizations? I want my 5yo son to be proud that he played baseball and got through a season even if he wasn't on a winning team but I want him to WANT to be on a winning team as well.
