Snowflake?

[Dill]

(08-02-2020, 08:33 PM)NATI BENGALS Wrote: Who originated this phase? What does it mean?

Well, I'm a little older than most folks here. So I remember when the word "snowflake" referred to a tiny bit of ice crystal which formed at high altitudes and then collected other tiny bits of ice as it fell to earth, creating a kind of lattice-work of frost around the original crystal. Billions of these things used to fall from the sky to create something called "snow."

I was always told that "no two were alike," though I am not sure how anyone could check them all.  So I guess each one was special.

One thing's for sure, they didn't last long if I caught one in my had to inspect it. They just melted.

Seems like sometime during Bush II's last term and Obama's first term, I began hearing Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity and their ditto-heads calling young liberals "snowflakes" if they complained about civil rights violations (especially sexual harassment) or about Rush and Sean's incivility. The implication was that all theses feminazis and Blacks and college students were spoiled children who thought themselves special and unique but could not stand up to even the medium, much less the hard knocks of life on their own. They whined about non problems because of the "sensitivity" enabled by their privileged backgrounds--a sensitivity real Americans had no time for.

After Trump's election the accusation was somewhat flipped as suddenly right wingers were complaining about how poor Trump and his surrogates were picked on and wasn't that so hypocritical of liberals always calling for civility and complaining whenever Trump made a racist/sexist remark.