# The Special Snowflake Thread
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-special-snowflake-thread/820617
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [September 1, 2018, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-special-snowflake-thread/820617 "2018-09-01T18:33:13Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2018, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-special-snowflake-thread/820617/21 "2018-09-02T17:02:23Z")
Kim Davis.
Or is she more evangelically fascist anti-LGBT?
Much difference?
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### Author:  [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2018, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-special-snowflake-thread/820617/22 "2018-09-02T17:11:29Z")
> [@running\_coach](#):
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> One of them was elected President. Many others are his supporters.
This. He and they love to insult, accuse, threaten, talk shit, call names. But let them be the target, and they lose their shit completely.
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### Author:  [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2018, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-special-snowflake-thread/820617/23 "2018-09-02T17:13:08Z")
> [@BigT](#):
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> Trump whines all the time about how people talk negatively about him. He constantly freaks out and and tries to force them to stop. That’s a snowflake.
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> And his supporters constantly whine when people respond to them when they act the same way they do, or say that Christians or white men are persecuted. The second they aren’t treated with the respect they think they deserve, they freak out completely.
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> Sure, they call other people snowflakes all the time, but one of their things is projection. They call other people what they themselves are.
This.
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### Author:  [@fschwartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fschwartz)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2018, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-special-snowflake-thread/820617/24 "2018-09-02T19:52:37Z")
I am going to like this forum.
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### Author:  [@Mrs.Cake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mrs.Cake)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2018, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-special-snowflake-thread/820617/25 "2018-09-02T20:12:16Z")
Seriously? This is what you open a “snowflake” thread with? A bill, roundly criticized and quickly killed, introduced over 2 years ago by a Republican legislator while he was running for congress in a district that included UI? You have a very “special” idea of what a snowflake is.
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### Author:  [@fschwartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fschwartz)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2018, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-special-snowflake-thread/820617/26 "2018-09-02T21:22:33Z")
> [@Mrs.Cake](#):
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> Seriously? This is what you open a “snowflake” thread with? A bill, roundly criticized and quickly killed, introduced over 2 years ago by a Republican legislator while he was running for congress in a district that included UI? You have a very “special” idea of what a snowflake is.
Well, I guess the OP wanted to discuss snowflakes in general and just used the Stanford/Iowa thing as a good example of responding to hurt feelings. And then we cleared up what I thought was a differentiation of who was a snowflake.
I’m still not sure about Republicans, or even conservatives, as snowflakes. Now, the Trumper Party, they are the snowflakes on that side. Trump is so psychotic it is almost unfair to lump him in with the snowflakes.
For future reference, I still classify Republicans and Democrats as I knew them 1950-1980 when they were willing to compromise and got things done. The parties of today ain’t what they used to be. For example, this dumb snowflake knows nothing about Democrats … [Ocasio-Cortez Praises Venezuela For Making Everyone A Millionaire Through Hyperinflation | Babylon Bee](https://babylonbee.com/news/ocasio-cortez-praises-venezuela-for-making-everyone-a-millionaire-through-hyperinflation/)
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### Author:  [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2018, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-special-snowflake-thread/820617/27 "2018-09-02T21:36:18Z")
> [@fschwartz](#):
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> Well, I guess the OP wanted to discuss snowflakes in general and just used the Stanford/Iowa thing as a good example of responding to hurt feelings. And then we cleared up what I thought was a differentiation of who was a snowflake.
> I’m still not sure about Republicans, or even conservatives, as snowflakes. Now, the Trumper Party, they are the snowflakes on that side. Trump is so psychotic it is almost unfair to lump him in with the snowflakes.
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> For future reference, I still classify Republicans and Democrats as I knew them 1950-1980 when they were willing to compromise and got things done. The parties of today ain’t what they used to be. For example, this dumb snowflake knows nothing about Democrats … [Ocasio-Cortez Praises Venezuela For Making Everyone A Millionaire Through Hyperinflation | Babylon Bee](https://babylonbee.com/news/ocasio-cortez-praises-venezuela-for-making-everyone-a-millionaire-through-hyperinflation/)
You happen to have a link that is not to a parody/satire site?
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### Author:  [@dasmoocher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dasmoocher)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2018, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-special-snowflake-thread/820617/28 "2018-09-02T21:44:17Z")
> [@SteveG1](#):
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> This. He and they love to insult, accuse, threaten, talk shit, call names. But let them be the target, and they lose their shit completely.
I know I posted this at the time in some thread, but it’s also appropriate here, especially since it was right after the election and Trump supporters were crowing and calling out anti-Trumpers as sore losers and snowflakes.
[Trump: Pence ‘harassed’ by ‘Hamilton’ cast:](https://www.cnn.com/2016/11/18/politics/mike-pence-hamilton-musical/index.html)
> [@](#):
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> Originally tweeted by **Donald J. Trump**
> Our wonderful future V.P. Mike Pence was harassed last night at the theater by the cast of Hamilton, cameras blazing.This should not happen!
> 9:48 AM - Nov 19, 2016
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> …
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> The Theater must always be a **safe and special place**.The cast of Hamilton was very rude last night to a very good man, Mike Pence. Apologize!
> 9:56 AM - Nov 19, 2016
[My bold]
The cognitive dissonance and psychological projection of Trump and his supporters is quite amazing.
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### Author:  [@Helena330](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helena330)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2018, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-special-snowflake-thread/820617/29 "2018-09-02T21:47:08Z")
> [@fschwartz](#):
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> but it is difficult to understand the snowflakes who cry if they hear bad news and need a safe place to go to and need a comfort animal with which to walk around, go to class, etc. What on god’s green earth are they going to do when they need to get a job? How will they handle the REAL WORLD when no one else cares about their “feelings”?
Where is this happening on a mass scale? I spend a lot of time with college students and NONE of them have ever done this. My university has declared there to be no “safe spaces” as have others. I think this whole issue is WAY overblown by people who resent institutions of higher education.
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### Author:  [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2018, 7:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-special-snowflake-thread/820617/30 "2018-09-03T07:54:03Z")
> [@fschwartz](#):
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> Well, I guess the OP wanted to discuss snowflakes in general and just used the Stanford/Iowa thing as a good example of responding to hurt feelings. And then we cleared up what I thought was a differentiation of who was a snowflake.
> I’m still not sure about Republicans, or even conservatives, as snowflakes. Now, the Trumper Party, they are the snowflakes on that side. Trump is so psychotic it is almost unfair to lump him in with the snowflakes.
>
> For future reference, I still classify Republicans and Democrats as I knew them 1950-1980 when they were willing to compromise and got things done. The parties of today ain’t what they used to be. For example, this dumb snowflake knows nothing about Democrats … [Ocasio-Cortez Praises Venezuela For Making Everyone A Millionaire Through Hyperinflation | Babylon Bee](https://babylonbee.com/news/ocasio-cortez-praises-venezuela-for-making-everyone-a-millionaire-through-hyperinflation/)
> [@k9bfriender](#):
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> You happen to have a link that is not to a parody/satire site?
Besides, I made that joke about hyperinflation and millionaires more than thirty years ago. Either it hasn’t aged well, or my Music History professor was REALLY a lenient grader.
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### Author:  [@Lord\_Feldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Feldon)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2018, 8:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-special-snowflake-thread/820617/31 "2018-09-03T08:02:27Z")
> [@fschwartz](#):
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> Ah, you classify snowflakes as whiners. I thought when alt-right coined the phrase it included safe spaces and comfort animals. This is the first time I have seen it applied to conservatives.
It’s similar to “political correctness” in that the biggest complainers about the issue are also the biggest offenders.
> [@Helena330](#):
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> Where is this happening on a mass scale? I spend a lot of time with college students and NONE of them have ever done this. My university has declared there to be no “safe spaces” as have others. I think this whole issue is WAY overblown by people who resent institutions of higher education.
Bingo. It’s hyped up by right-wing media to divert attention away from actual news. And it’s not even novel at this point. They’ve been griping about college students since _at least_ the 60s.
The right can start complaining about free speech on college campuses when left-wingers start running for office on a platform of using the military to purge colleges of right-wing students.
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### Author:  [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2018, 8:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-special-snowflake-thread/820617/32 "2018-09-03T08:08:13Z")
> [@fschwartz](#):
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> I am going to like this forum.
Apparently, you’ve been here since 2002.
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### Author:  [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2018, 8:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-special-snowflake-thread/820617/33 "2018-09-03T08:22:30Z")
> [@Alessan](#):
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> Apparently, you’ve been here since 2002.
Strange indeed. Joined in 2002, and all SIX posts since then have been in the last two days.
Hmmm. :dubious:
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### Author:  [@fschwartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fschwartz)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2018, 9:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-special-snowflake-thread/820617/34 "2018-09-03T09:00:03Z")
> [@kambuckta](#):
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> Strange indeed. Joined in 2002, and all SIX posts since then have been in the last two days.
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> Hmmm. :dubious:
I apologies, guys. I have been a fan of Straight Dope since 1983 or so since my cousin turned me onto the Chicago Reader. I have the SD first book. I was excited by this innerweb thingy and signed up for this forum and forgot about it when I got in to motorcycle forums. But here I am now, turn 70 on Thursday, Jewish, Harley Davidson, tattoo, ear stud, grey beard, retired pharmacist, and went to Purdue when Newsweek magazine called it a hotbed of rest, and now live in Raleigh NC. Any other thing you need to know about me?
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### Author:  [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2018, 9:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-special-snowflake-thread/820617/35 "2018-09-03T09:28:03Z")
> [@fschwartz](#):
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> I apologies, guys. I have been a fan of Straight Dope since 1983 or so since my cousin turned me onto the Chicago Reader. I have the SD first book. I was excited by this innerweb thingy and signed up for this forum and forgot about it when I got in to motorcycle forums. But here I am now, turn 70 on Thursday, Jewish, Harley Davidson, tattoo, ear stud, grey beard, retired pharmacist, and went to Purdue when Newsweek magazine called it a hotbed of rest, and now live in Raleigh NC. Any other thing you need to know about me?
Why did you post this explanation here in THIS thread instead of the one where I brought up your name as a possible troll? That in itself is curious…
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### Author:  [@fschwartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fschwartz)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2018, 9:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-special-snowflake-thread/820617/36 "2018-09-03T09:50:56Z")
> [@kambuckta](#):
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> Why did you post this explanation here in THIS thread instead of the one where I brought up your name as a possible troll? That in itself is curious…
I saw this one first. Then I posted there.
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### Author:  [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2018, 9:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-special-snowflake-thread/820617/37 "2018-09-03T09:53:03Z")
He might not be into reading omnibus threads that have been going on for two years before he returned to the Board. His explanation strikes me as adequate; none of the details seem outlandish, and I, for one, am prepared to take him at his word.
Welcome back, old-timer! 🙂
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### Author:  [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Budget_Player_Cadet)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2018, 10:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-special-snowflake-thread/820617/38 "2018-09-03T10:02:30Z")
That. Cmon, he’s weird, not an idiot.
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### Author:  [@fschwartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fschwartz)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2018, 10:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-special-snowflake-thread/820617/39 "2018-09-03T10:52:58Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#):
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> He might not be into reading omnibus threads that have been going on for two years before he returned to the Board. His explanation strikes me as adequate; none of the details seem outlandish, and I, for one, am prepared to take him at his word.
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> Welcome back, old-timer! 🙂
thank ya, thank ya very much.
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### Author:  [@j666](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j666)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2018, 11:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-special-snowflake-thread/820617/40 "2018-09-03T11:03:50Z")
> [@fschwartz](#):
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> …
> For future reference, I still classify Republicans and Democrats as I knew them 1950-1980 when they were willing to compromise and got things done. …
And I still use the plural “formulae”. Our time has passed, my friend.
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