Current Events > Damn, the term ''snowflake'' backfired hard on repubs huh

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Did Repubs really think they were some ultra thick skinned people who weren't easily offended as anyone else? They cry more than the people they accuse of being snowflakes. Funny how the word stopped being used.

I think its still pretty biting and impactful. People will deflect when they get called that but it still works.

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Not really. It just became an overused and meaningless term like most insults people use frequently online.

EmbraceOfDeath posted...

Not really. It just became an overused and meaningless term like most insults people use frequently online.

Naw it was definitely the Repubs' go-to term to insult the left.

The issue that conservatives had with using the term "snowflake" was that they forget the colloqualism actually had two definitions. When conservatives used it, they were only using it in the sense that a snowflake is unique, because they were mocking people for insisting on their uniqueness via their attributes, such as their race, gender, pronouns, and fancy colorful haircuts. When liberals took it as a rejoinder, liberals were saying it in the sense that snowflakes are delicate (ie. Crybabies). Since conservatives are constantly online crying about stupid shit like the realistic skin color of a mermaid, how sexy an m&m should be, or the condiments that the president uses on his food, there were a lot more opportunities for liberals to get their definition of the word across than conservatives had theirs. The blue haired lesbian with they/them pronouns is far less prominent a figure than America's most watched news pundit crying about candy bars.

A_Good_Boy posted...

When conservatives used it, they were only using it in the sense that a snowflake is unique, because they were mocking people for insisting on their uniqueness via their attributes, such as their race, gender, pronouns, and fancy colorful haircuts.

Repubs all thought they were special too so the term backed fired in both ways.

A_Good_Boy posted...

When liberals took it as a rejoinder

"Snowflake" was originally a leftist/liberal insult against conservatives, it wasn't as a response to conservatives using the term.

ellis123 posted...

"Snowflake" was originally a leftist/liberal insult against conservatives

citation needed

VampireCoyote posted...

citation needed

https://www.usatoday.com/story/college/2017/02/01/been-called-a-snowflake-the-it-new-insult/37427267/

It traces its origins to Missouri in which people who were against the abolition of slavery were called snowflakes.

Yeah it started out as mocking people for thinking they are special or unique but somehow became shorthand for people who are easily offended, which ironically describes most of the people who use it that way

I assumed it was a Fight Club reference

See I always saw it as someone who is easily offended (be it either a liberal or conservative) about stuff basically using it to shit on someone who is as easily offended about stuff (the opposite party liberal or conservative, of the person using the term)

I always saw it as commonly referenced term both sides criticize the other side for using yet still look for validation when they use it

ShadowMan033 posted...

See I always saw it as someone who is easily offended (be it either a liberal or conservative) about stuff basically using it to shit on someone who is as easily offended about stuff (the opposite party liberal or conservative, of the person using the term)

I always saw it as commonly referenced term both sides criticize the other side for using yet still look for validation when they use it

Back when it was in vogue for conservatives to scour Tumbler or post their shit take videos from college campuses, they used to call people snowflakes just for merely existing in those spaces.