Again wasn't offended. Just pointing out it used heavily by alt-right. It's weird that you keep saying people get offended.
I am tolerant. I put up with left leaners every day no problem. I'm glad everyone here is tolerating my extremist views seeing as I am right of centre so I'm a baddie.
I call out hate speech. I don't call out things like that when it is quite obvious there was no intent behind it. Snowflake isn;t about fighting for rights. That IS an alt-right use. snowflake labelled at someone making a mountain out of a molehill is what it is usually used as. I didn;t say anything to my Dad. He didn't mean anything by it. I raised my eyebrows when he said it and let it pass. The modern generation need to start to assess the intent of some languages. Best stay clear of Essex or they might have a breakdown with everyone telling them to "Shut up." Get offended by Ryland because he's always telling people to "shut up." Literal meaning has been taken too far. I have no problem with PC when it is stopping someone being nasty. The rest people need to learn to ignore if there is no intent behind it.
Here's one thing I don't get. Young people can't be trusted to vote, but old people, who apparently can't (even after it being unacceptable for twenty years) stop using the word darkie, can make an acceptable vote for what the world needs today? ...
Name calling is the updated way is it? The right calling the left snowflakes even if they aren't and the left calling the right bigots even if they aren't? How the world has moved on. Update? You are assuming that there is only one route forward and everyone who doesn't follow that route is outdated or left behind? I think you'll find that the majority of this country are fine with LGBT issues, are not racist, are not bigoted and are not any other "ist" and that majority will vote Tory just as much as they will vote Labour or Lib Dem. You will also find the same proportion that aren't fine with one or more things that vote for all 3 parties too. Voting right, thinking PC has gone a bit too far and thinking people should have a bit thicker skin does not make them outdated. Whole generation of people? I'm not much older than millennials if millennials starts early eighties then being born in 1975 I am not far off them. Seems to me that it isn't generational and is more widespread across generations.
I don't think people do get that offended by being called snowflake. It's hardly the worst insult that could be thrown. I was merely stating that becasue some dodgy group uses a word it shouldn't suddenly be conciously banned because of association. F*** the alt-right nazis. It's my language too.
Not at all. Corbyn and his team spun 2 contradictory pitches to try and get the heartland voters on board as well as the students. the former want out, the latter want in and it was a masterstroke to get it to work however had he been leader he would have had to upset one of them! What about this article that I noticed earlier. Not sure if metro is "fake news" but made me chuckle to myself. I guess this would make people angrier than the uber talented Gove rightfully being recalled: http://metro.co.uk/2017/06/11/the-d...having-a-role-in-brexit-negotiations-6701540/
I think the point is Imps, that when someone - anyone - uses the expression "snowflake" in order to belittle the opinions of another, then at the very least that person's thinking has probably been polluted by exposure to some pretty messed up company. It's not a word in common parlance. It's use appears to be pretty exclusive to angry right wingers posting bile on the internet. It's a giveaway, in other words - like MSM is a giveaway. A code by which facists and conspiracy theorists both recognise each other, and label their targets.
I'm a bit confused by all this right wing, left wing nonsense to be honest. If someone voted labour why should they be considered to be left wing? Accepted that labour has a socialist idealism. However most people do not vote based on "left wing" or "Right wing policy's" surely they vote on what they deem is best for the country on the day. The next time there is an election they are just as likely to vote a different way as they will have been persuaded by a different parties argument on the days leading to the election. In my view it was a mistake for the Tories to call an election, it was clearly a mistake to under estimate Corbyn. I also accept there is a core of people around that will vote in for their favourite party no matter what they are offering. However I am more convinced the majority of voters are, to use the modern term for them "floating voters"............Not particularly left or right wing.
And in other news, away from Operation Snowflake ... ML news announces the latest parlour game. Spot the DUP demands. Those of betting inclination can give odds. Also taking odds on this Government still being here in 5 years time without the need for a further election. My money is on stopping the flow of money to Sinn Fein. That'll all end well. Let's go for broke and get Nigel Farage to announce it in a face-to-face with Gerry Adams.
