Snowflakes complaining about "anti-mansplaining movement".

[DetlefK]

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/rotten-tomatoes-last-jedi-ratings-bots_us_5a38cb78e4b0860bf4aab5b1

A Facebook page called Down With Disney’s Treatment of Franchises and its Fanboys is claiming responsibility for tanking the Rotten Tomatoes audience score for the latest “Star Wars” film, alleging that it used bots in a concerted attack against the Rian Johnson-directed movie.

On Tuesday, we sent a direct message to the page, whose moderator responded almost immediately. He explained that he’s upset with “Star Wars” producers for, “among other things,” introducing more female characters into the franchise’s universe.

Throughout the course of our conversation, the self-identified member of the “alt-right” claimed that Poe Dameron (played by Oscar Isaac) is a “victim of the anti-mansplaining movement,” that Poe and Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) are in danger of being “turn[ed]” gay, and that men should be reinstated as rulers of “society.”



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Hot-head Poe Dameron does something stupid?
And he gets demoted for that?
By a female Admiral??????
Must be the "anti-mansplaining movement"!!!!!

[stonecutter357]

1. I don't think i would use the word Snowflakes to describe someone .

'Snowflake' a Nazi Term for the Remains of Cremated Victims . http://www.rsdb.org/slur/snowflake
When they would burn the Jews and the ashes would come out the smoke stacks like Snowflakes .

[EL34x4]

3. I've never heard the term "snowflake" referred to Holocaust victims.

I doubt many others have either.

[Maeve]

4. For the past couple of years, the only reference I've seen for the term has been to people

who 'melt' in the face of the least little heat, originally thrown at liberals but more applicable to the alt-right
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Snowflake

[oberliner]

5. Because it's BS

CLAIM
"Snowflake" was a Nazi term used to describe the remains of those who were incinerated during the Holocaust.

RATING
FALSE

https://www.snopes.com/snowflake-nazi-term-holocaust/

[Maeve]

9. From the Snopes article

The term was not included in the Holocaust Encyclopedia provided by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, and while the word “snowflake” was repeatedly found in the Museum’s archive collection, it was never used in the manner described above.

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum told us that they were not familiar with Nazi soldiers using the term “snowflake,” and the education team at the Illinois Holocaust Museum also said that they were unaware of the term being used during the Holocaust.

Most likely came from the book and movie "Fight Club"

[oberliner]

10. It's not a term connected to the Holocaust in any way

It's amazing (and disturbing) that something can appear on some dumb internet list (that anyone can submit anything to, unvetted) and people believe it as true (and spread it around).

[Maeve]

11. Agreed--I've lost count how many times I've had to tell folks on FB

"Snopes.com is your friend; don't post without checking a fact-based source"

[Igel]

12. I have to wonder if the use wasn't a sort of weird dark linguistic humor.

khlopets = fellow, guy.

khlop'ya = flake.

(Snezhinka = snowflake, but such niceties are often lost in translation)

On edit:

I have to assume many think it's not an accident that the most invasive part of the Nazi hierarchy was the SS.

And that the largest government agency in the US is also the SS?

No, we only seek specious grounds for outrage against those we already have a hankering to be outraged against.

[stonecutter357]

14. you can start with this .

https://thinkprogress.org/all-the-special-snowflakes-aaf1a922f37b/

[stonecutter357]

15. my reply to you is the 14 reply in this OP , i can only see 3 .......

[oberliner]

6. The "racial slur database" is a joke

Snowflake is not a nazi term.

[member12]

7. Snowflake is a term used by Nazis

[oberliner]

8. They use it now - along with other right-wingers

But it's not a nazi term - and it has nothing to do with the Holocaust.

It's a slur that they use to imply that liberals are fragile and easily offended.

[Igel]

13. And if it were, that would be

precisely irrelevant.

The Nazi term was German, used 70 years ago, by people who none of us know. People innovate new meanings to words all the time; many die within seconds, many live on for days or months. Some get recorded in lexicographic works as linguistic oddities. Some become dialectal and then become standard, some just stay dialectal (which could be geographic, could be social).

[gratuitous]

16. Then call them broflakes

Same diff.

[Docreed2003]

2. Interesting...

I made the comment the other night in RandySF’s thread on “Last Jedi” that from what I could glean from the negative reviews on Rotten Tomatoes, that they seemed driven by alt-right outrage....at the time I thought I was being ! Glad I’m not as crazy as I thought I was, lol!