# 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
**Page:** 3
### Author:  [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2018, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-special-snowflake-thread/820617/41 "2018-09-03T17:53:56Z")
> [@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?
Where do you stand on tipping, declawing cats, and planes on treadmills?
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### Author:  [@fschwartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fschwartz)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2018, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-special-snowflake-thread/820617/42 "2018-09-03T18:13:53Z")
> [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#):
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> Where do you stand on tipping, declawing cats, and planes on treadmills?
it depends on who they are
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### Author:  [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2018, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-special-snowflake-thread/820617/43 "2018-09-03T18:47:57Z")
Welcome back!
> [@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.
> [@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.
Pretty much. It happened 2 years ago, but it was classic (and I just heard about it tbh). Wahhhh!!! My team lost and their band made fun of my state. I will now take up time in my state legislature with bullshit legislation because the Stanford Band is EVIL. There aren’t enough rolleyes for that one.
I was hoping for some more snowflake stories, but a discussion of the term snowflakes is also good.
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### Author:  [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2018, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-special-snowflake-thread/820617/44 "2018-09-03T18:49:55Z")
> [@running\_coach](#):
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> Oxidized yellow snow.
Watch out where the Husky’s go.
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### Author:  [@GreysonCarlisle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreysonCarlisle)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2018, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-special-snowflake-thread/820617/45 "2018-09-03T20:06:12Z")
> [@fschwartz](#):
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> I saw this one first. Then I posted there.
Like many other things, timestamps are confusing to our cadre of self-appointed troll hunters. Welcome back!
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### Author:  [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2018, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-special-snowflake-thread/820617/46 "2018-09-03T20:52:33Z")
For a team agnostic one:
Micheal Jordan and his [peculiar Hall of Fame induction speech.](http://larrybrownsports.com/basketball/michael-jordan-bitter-speech-hall-fame-enshrinement/9459)
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> During his speech, MJ ripped on high school teammate Leroy Smith saying that Leroy’s game is probably the same (Smith got picked for the varsity over Jordan in 10th grade). Added to that list were Buzz Peterson, his roommate at UNC, his brothers, Dean Smith for not picking him as a starter for SI magazine, Jerry Reinsdorf for holding him back when he was recovering from a foot injury, Doug Collins for not wanting him to practice in the summer, and several others. Jordan ripped on Bulls GM Jerry Krause (no surprise given their past) saying “Jerry’s not here, I don’t know who’d invite him. I didn’t.” The multi-millionaire even ripped the Hall of Fame for raising the ticket price to attend the speech, costing him more money to bring his family to the event. Jordan ripped Pat Riley for not letting him fraternize with Charles Oakley or Patrick Ewing, and he also got in a shot on Jeff Van Gundy, calling him “the little guy on the staff.” Rather than being gracious for his induction to the Hall of Fame, Jordan had to touch on anything and everything he ever used to motivate himself and he was a jerk along the way.
I’ll substitute “jerk” for that other word that’s predominated this thread.
ETA: [word](https://www.google.com/search?q=jordan+crying&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjjqKX825_dAhVYGDQIHQhVD5UQ_AUICigB&biw=929&bih=819)
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### Author:  [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2018, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-special-snowflake-thread/820617/47 "2018-09-03T20:55:24Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#):
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> Snowflakes come in orange now?
Thanks for putting THAT image in my head.
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### Author:  [@HelenGawn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HelenGawn)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2018, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-special-snowflake-thread/820617/48 "2018-09-03T21:52:11Z")
A tip of the hat to the one poster contributing to the original purpose of the thread.
> [@Guest-starring\_Id](#):
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> Mr. Cantwell.
For those who don’t remember, Christopher Cantwell is known as the [Crying Nazi](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Vy7BiJPLfs) of Charlottesville march fame.
In looking him up, I discovered that he pleaded guilty to using pepper spray at the march/demonstration/riot. He claimed in the VICE documentary that he’d been sprayed by “Communists” - twice. Check wind direction first next time, bitch.
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### Author:  [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2018, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-special-snowflake-thread/820617/49 "2018-09-03T22:05:08Z")
Heh, heh.
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### Author:  [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2018, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-special-snowflake-thread/820617/50 "2018-09-03T22:20:07Z")
> [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](#):
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> That. Cmon, he’s weird, not an idiot.
Which covers a lot of us. 😛
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### Author:  [@Akaj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Akaj)
#### Post date: [September 4, 2018, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-special-snowflake-thread/820617/51 "2018-09-04T17:32:24Z")
[Snowflake alert](http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/football/ct-spt-nike-colin-kaepernick-just-do-it-20180904-story.html)!
“This guy hurts my feelings because he won’t stand for the national anthem. Now I’m going to boycott the company that puts him in an ad.”
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### Author:  [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)
#### Post date: [September 4, 2018, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-special-snowflake-thread/820617/52 "2018-09-04T18:06:14Z")
> [@Akaj](#):
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> [Snowflake alert](http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/football/ct-spt-nike-colin-kaepernick-just-do-it-20180904-story.html)!
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> “This guy hurts my feelings because he won’t stand for the national anthem. Now I’m going to boycott the company that puts him in an ad.”
Not just boycott, but actually destroy the clothes that you’ve already paid for and given the money to the company.
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### Author:  [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)
#### Post date: [September 4, 2018, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-special-snowflake-thread/820617/53 "2018-09-04T18:09:52Z")
Kudos to Nike. I admire this campaign.
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### Author:  [@Akaj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Akaj)
#### Post date: [September 4, 2018, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-special-snowflake-thread/820617/54 "2018-09-04T20:02:30Z")
> [@Sunny\_Daze](#):
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> Kudos to Nike. I admire this campaign.
And now I wonder if I’m not being hypocritical. If there were a well-known athlete who kneeled during the anthem to publicize, say, his open opposition to gay marriage, and Nike put him in a campaign championing his courage, I’d be tempted to boycott, too.
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### Author:  [@Slash1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slash1972)
#### Post date: [September 4, 2018, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-special-snowflake-thread/820617/55 "2018-09-04T20:05:33Z")
> [@Akaj](#):
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> And now I wonder if I’m not being hypocritical. If there were a well-known athlete who kneeled during the anthem to publicize, say, his open opposition to gay marriage, and Nike put him in a campaign championing his courage, I’d be tempted to boycott, too.
It’s only hypocritical if you believe the right of gay people to marry is similar to the right of cops to shoot unarmed black men.
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### Author:  [@Akaj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Akaj)
#### Post date: [September 4, 2018, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-special-snowflake-thread/820617/56 "2018-09-04T20:20:29Z")
> [@Slash1972](#):
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> It’s only hypocritical if you believe the right of gay people to marry is similar to the right of cops to shoot unarmed black men.
People aren’t pissed at Kaepernick for opposing police violence against blacks, they’re pissed at him for using the anthem as his means of protest. I don’t think he’d be nearly as polarizing if he’d confined his support for BLM to social media – and he’d still likely be on an NFL roster.
But you’re right – support for BLM and opposition to gay marriage are not moral equivalents by a long shot.
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### Author:  [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)
#### Post date: [September 4, 2018, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-special-snowflake-thread/820617/57 "2018-09-04T21:07:40Z")
> [@dasmoocher](#):
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> 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.
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> [Trump: Pence ‘harassed’ by ‘Hamilton’ cast:](https://www.cnn.com/2016/11/18/politics/mike-pence-hamilton-musical/index.html)
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> [My bold]
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> The cognitive dissonance and psychological projection of Trump and his supporters is quite amazing.
Yes, what you posted then, is still in full effect. A great example is that scumbag who became known as “the crying Nazi”. A perfect example.
Or those hate filled “fuck you I will fuck shit up for spite” base of his, crying that the LIBTARDS and the JOOZ are being mean to them.
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### Author:  [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)
#### Post date: [September 4, 2018, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-special-snowflake-thread/820617/58 "2018-09-04T21:09:57Z")
> [@Lord\_Feldon](#):
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> …
> 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.
… and threatening to “regulate” the “fake news media” and the “unfair Google search engine”.
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### Author:  [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2018, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-special-snowflake-thread/820617/59 "2018-09-05T00:49:55Z")
Posting to turn off email notifications
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### Author:  [@Covfefe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Covfefe)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2018, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-special-snowflake-thread/820617/60 "2018-09-05T01:17:44Z")
> [@kambuckta](#):
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> Posting to turn off email notifications
Reminds me of the days being a snowflake only meant you were unique. How exceptional of you to post for that purpose.
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