Snowflake? Is this a thing?

[mac56]

Some jackhole on another site just called me a "snowflake." I replied: Brother, I'm from Minnesota. When snowflakes stick together, they can put a serious hurt on your ass.

"Snowflake"? When did that become a thing?

[underpants]

1. Its my nickname for Trump

"Delicate little Snowfalkes" is a RW catchphrase for millennials and "safe space" college students.

[Glamrock]

2. Take note of the poster and wait.

When he/she starts complaining about living in a depression, cuts to Medicare and SS, etc. You can ask whatsamatter snowflake? This is what you voted for.

[mac56]

4. Brilliant!

[Shandris]

3. Years ago.

Special snowflake (assuming thats the one you meant) has been around...I wanna say at least 4 years I've personally seen it bandied back and forth, and I'm usually slow on new labels. I've got a .gif of it flashing on a background from 2012 or 2013 at the very latest, so at least that long.

Anywho. It picked up a lot after Tumblr became the hangout for the SJZ-inclined (that's zealot, as opposed to the more common and vaguely good-sounding 'warrior' - most of these people are far from good), and now again that the firewall of media censorship is on the ropes. It'll be around a while; it's a preferred insult right now, along with 'hurrdurr I'm an attack helicopter'.

[Charles Bukowski]

5. Every right-winger says that now. It's another example of the groupthink conservatives engage in.

They're mindless parrots, every last one of them.

[Leghorn21]

6. Yep, it's a thing, along with "cupcake", "libtard" and whatever a "cuck" is

(I looked up the latter and immediately forgot what it means)...guess it's been in use for at least a year? - "Haw haw, I'm drinkin a big ole warm mug of libtard tears this morning, haw haw"

Standard stuff, mac56!

[MADem]

9. The answer to that "libtard tears" shit is as follows...

You'd better look real hard in that cup of yours, little buddy....notice how those "tears" are the color of your Hero's hair?

Those aren't tears you're drinking...and don't eat the yellow snow(flakes) next time either!

[Leghorn21]

16. "Gulp!"

[wildeyed]

19. You could always reply with this oldy but goodie....

Seriously, they need to check if the salty stuff is really tears too....

[Guilded Lilly]

7. Oh, that is an "insult" non-liberals are trying to use

to label anyone who didn't vote for the Cretin. Obviously comes from insecurity, ignorance and immaturity.

Snowflakes are beautiful, distinctly unique and quite pure (wink)

[MADem]

8. It's a Trumphumper thing.

Tell 'em you're a yellow snowflake, and you've got lotsa friends who are gonna melt all over that jerk like he's Donald on a Russian mattress!!

You can also send them this video of you and your "Snowflake" friends to let 'em know what we're capable of in a group....

[crazycatlady]

10. It is how Boomers describe anyone born after 1980

[phylny]

15. Please, no. I'm a Boomer and I never, ever use this phrase. n/t

[HockeyMom]

27. I'm 68 and have been called a Snowflake

At my age I am a damned avalanche, not some delicate, fragile snowflake. They (Trump supporters) tend to use it for anyone who they think needs the government's, or Mommy and Daddy's, help in order to survive.

If you are a Democrat, you are a Snowflake whatever your age to them.

[ornotna]

23. Swing and a miss

Uh, no. Not even funny if that was meant as a joke.

[redstatebluegirl]

24. Nope not true.

[Ms. Toad]

30. Wow. Ageist, much? n/t

[BumRushDaShow]

11. Good to know

in order to sniff out trolls on this site using the term.

[sanatanadharma]

12. Only a thing to the melted snowflakes

You know, the icy ones of regression and aggression that melt in the sunshine of truth.
The melted snowflakes who wet the beds they lie on.

[Generic Brad]

13. It's another lame Alt-Right insult

And the person who called you that thinks he is so clever labelling you a "snowflake" because he has just dog whistled others of his ilk to pile on you. And he is chuckling to himself because he thinks you are too dense to know it.

[ismnotwasm]

14. It's also a MRA thing

Those weird sexism-is-good groups who are estatic to have Trump.

[wildeyed]

17. Tell them don't eat the yellow snow....

Trigglypuff too. I dunno, some dumb thing about triggered.....

It means you think you are special and you are fragile and weak like a snowflake. It's a thing unsuccessful, overly sensitive, thin skinned men say to mask their abject fear of reality and feelings of inferiority. It keeps the nihilism at bay for a few seconds when they yell the insult at people who having a moral center. The irony is that they are the ones who are too weak to contemplate a multicultural future where they will have to compete on equal ground with women, LGBT, POC and whoever else doesn't fit into their regressive 1950s fantasyland. It's seriously dumb and only seriously dumb people say it.

Oh, I just found out that there is this blue pill/red pill meme they like from the Matrix movie too, a movie written and directed by two trans women about a white guy brought to reality by a black man and a woman. Did I mention they were stoooooopid?

[mreilly]

18. They assume Trump objectors are a bunch of weenies...

... and "snowflake" refers to their inevitable jeers and taunts that we're all "crying libtards who need a safe space and our coloring books."

And when I debate these rotten pukes online I relish telling them: "Ain't no snowflake here, cupcake and nobody is crying. I'm a brawling debater who LOVES the fight and is going to be rubbing your faces in your hero's excrement as he backs away from promise after promise after promise. So bring it, assholes, and enjoy getting beaten over your head with facts until you actually learn something!"

For some strange reason they all invariably run away, usually with the typical whines that I'm not "worth" their time.

Which will be exactly how Trump resigns before July!

[wildeyed]

22. Right?

Half the time my trolls block me before I get around to it.

[NCTraveler]

20. Snowflake is a thing.

Trump and his tweets are proof.

[LyndaG]

21. Ha!

Their idol is the biggest Snowflake of all: He moans and whines about "SNL" sketches. Big baby !!!

[muriel_volestrangler]

25. A troll used 'special snowflake' as a username in Sep 2012 (they lasted about half an hour)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=profile&uid=290475

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/special-snowflake

Know Your Meme points out a similar Fight Club usage in 1999: “You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake.”

and various uses after that.

[RazBerryBeret]

26. It's used frequently

in the TV series "Prison Break".... insulting to the non-hardened, white convicts... not sure that's where it came from, but it's been around for years.

[kcr]

28. I love your response

I'm going to have to remember that one!

[Buckeye_Democrat]

29. According to Wikipedia...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_Snowflake

Generation Snowflake, or Snowflake Generation, is a term used to characterize young adults of the 2010s as being more prone to taking offense and less resilient than previous generations, or too emotionally vulnerable to cope with views that challenge their own. It is considered derogatory. Some sources attribute the characteristics ascribed to Generation Snowflake to methods of parenting and education, particularly those that focus unduly on boosting self-esteem.

It has been suggested that "Generation Snowflake" is derived from the term "snowflake", which has been used to make reference to parents reportedly raising their children as "special" and "precious" snowflakes. This usage of "snowflake" may originate from Chuck Palahniuk's 1996 novel Fight Club, which became a hit film in 1999. Both the novel and the film include the line "You are not special. You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake."

1999? I didn't start seeing that word used until the last four years or so.