# 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:** 19
**Page:** 4
### Author:  [@Covfefe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Covfefe)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2018, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-special-snowflake-thread/820617/61 "2018-09-05T01:21:58Z")
I am a snowflake. ☹
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### Author:  [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2018, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-special-snowflake-thread/820617/62 "2018-09-05T01:48:12Z")
> [@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.
Even if they were equivalent, I wouldn’t see it as hypocritical. There’s nothing wrong with being upset about something you think is morally wrong and not being upset about something you think is morally right.
I would only see it as hypocritical if you tried to argue that Nike should not have been allowed to do it in one case but allowed to do so in the other.
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### Author:  [@j666](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j666)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2018, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-special-snowflake-thread/820617/63 "2018-09-05T01:49:55Z")
> [@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.
What’s wrong with that? You can boycott anyone supporting policies you dissapprove of, that’s fine. And you can tell people, too.
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### Author:  [@Isamu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isamu)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2018, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-special-snowflake-thread/820617/64 "2018-09-05T01:57:54Z")
Taking a knee has always been a sign of respect. What happened recently to change that?
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### Author:  [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2018, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-special-snowflake-thread/820617/65 "2018-09-05T02:04:43Z")
> [@Covfefe](#):
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> 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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### Author:  [@j666](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j666)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2018, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-special-snowflake-thread/820617/66 "2018-09-05T03:12:31Z")
> [@Isamu](#):
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> Taking a knee has always been a sign of respect. What happened recently to change that?
Black men did it?
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### Author:  [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2018, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-special-snowflake-thread/820617/67 "2018-09-05T18:24:15Z")
> [@Covfefe](#):
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> I am a snowflake. ☹
It’s ok. You’re our snowflake.
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### Author:  [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2018, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-special-snowflake-thread/820617/68 "2018-09-05T21:18:46Z")
If someone from the other side mocks you, don’t be “hurt” , just get revenge.
In 1988, when Michigan State University was going to the Rose Bowl, a columnist in a California paper said something about how “we’ll give those Michigan farmers a lesson”
So a local DJ in Lansing got the phone number of the paper and put it out on the air, encouraging folks to give 'em a call. The phone lines got WAY tied up, until someone from the paper called, said they were sorry, now will you please call off your dogs?
Revenge is a dish best served cold.
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### Author:  [@Wolf333](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolf333)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2018, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-special-snowflake-thread/820617/69 "2018-09-05T22:07:11Z")
Mike Pence going to a football game just so he can leave in a huff.
Sarah Huckabee Sanders going to the correspondents dinner just so she can leave in a huff.
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### Author:  [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2018, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-special-snowflake-thread/820617/70 "2018-09-05T22:59:52Z")
Pence was classic.
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### Author:  [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2018, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-special-snowflake-thread/820617/71 "2018-09-05T23:01:42Z")
> [@Wolf333](#):
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> Mike Pence going to a football game just so he can leave in a huff.
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> Sarah Huckabee Sanders going to the correspondents dinner just so she can leave in a huff.
What do we do to get trump to leave in a huff?
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### Author:  [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2018, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-special-snowflake-thread/820617/72 "2018-09-06T00:38:39Z")
Maybe even in a minute and a huff.
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### Author:  [@Fair\_Rarity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fair_Rarity)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2018, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-special-snowflake-thread/820617/73 "2018-09-06T01:18:39Z")
> [@k9bfriender](#):
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> What do we do to get trump to leave in a huff?
Stick him in a library
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### Author:  [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2018, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-special-snowflake-thread/820617/74 "2018-09-06T01:18:48Z")
A word of advice to my Republicans friends . If you feel compelled to burn NIKE footwear, please remove it from your feet first. Wouldn’t wish to see anybody hurt.
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### Author:  [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2018, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-special-snowflake-thread/820617/75 "2018-09-06T18:16:31Z")
> [@E-DUB](#):
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> A word of advice to my Republicans friends . If you feel compelled to burn NIKE footwear, please remove it from your feet first. Wouldn’t wish to see anybody hurt.
In some few specific instances, I have to disagree, and I would find it very entertaining.
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### Author:  [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2018, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-special-snowflake-thread/820617/76 "2018-09-07T22:08:48Z")
The idea of a unique and special snowflake reminds me of the classic hippies.
Every single one of whom was a rebel. They marched to their own beat, wore their own clothing which made a statement of their uniqueness and solitary artistic space.
Except, of course, that a few million people on the planet all became that kind of hippy by dressing the same, acting the same, listening to the same tunes and generally becoming a tribe.
A self-identifying tribe of snowflakes.
:p:p:p:p:p:p:p:p:p:p
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### Author:  [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2018, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-special-snowflake-thread/820617/77 "2018-09-07T23:46:34Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#):
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> Snowflakes come in orange now?
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#):
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> Thanks for putting THAT image in my head.
Think there’d be a market for orange snowflake Christmas tree ornaments? Would producing them be pandering to trolls?
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### Author:  [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)
#### Post date: [September 8, 2018, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-special-snowflake-thread/820617/78 "2018-09-08T02:21:06Z")
> [@E-DUB](#):
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> A word of advice to my Republicans friends . If you feel compelled to burn NIKE footwear, please remove it from your feet first. Wouldn’t wish to see anybody hurt.
[heh.](https://www.gocomics.com/lil-donnie/2018/09/04)
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### Author:  [@GreysonCarlisle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreysonCarlisle)
#### Post date: [September 28, 2018, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-special-snowflake-thread/820617/79 "2018-09-28T19:16:12Z")
A teacher who forced black middle school students to lie on the floor while she stepped on their backs is suing for all the moneys because she was reverse-discriminated against.
> [@](#):
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> She filed a notice of claim with anticipation of the lawsuit this week, arguing she is owed $120 million in damages because she was the victim of reverse discrimination, defamation and negligence.
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> Cummings’s motion, obtained by the outlet, states that the lawsuit could become a class action reverse racism suit valued at $1 billion.
- [The Hill](https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/408996-ny-teacher-fired-for-controversial-slavery-lesson-files-lawsuit)
From an article in February:
> [@](#):
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> Students said Cummings, who is white, singled out black students and told them to lie face-down on the floor during class.
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> At one point during the exercise, she stepped on the back of at least one of the students and allegedly said, “How does it feel? See how it feels to be a slave.”
- [ABC](https://abc7news.com/education/teachers-slavery-lesson-outrages-students-parents/3038335/)
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