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See, im a leftie. And i understand that in university its best to hear from i wide variety of voices.
But, tatchell and greer are both dreadful people. Awful, awful people. It really is crazy that Universities have become places that no longer challenge peoples beliefs but just act to prop up peoples existing and often wrong beliefs. |
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Well, that particular saying was always a load of nonsense! And it's not realistic to claim that an entire generation were taught in this way, and that they all turned out to be "snowflakes".
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It's possible to recognise that the term is generally used by morons while not being upset by the word snowflake.
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I've never understood this millennial thing. How can someone born before the millenium be a millenial? I thought you had to have been born from 2000 onwards. After all it was the turn of the millennium. So glad I have fallen out of that bracket to not have that label. 1980. the definition i saw mentioned the dates i posted 1981 - 1997. i have no idea what the generation 1997 onwards is!. |
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What is so awful about them?
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It's possible to recognise that the term is generally used by morons while not being upset by the word snowflake.
So your laughter is based on your falsehood. |
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Don't go on YouTube to look for these kinds of video.
You'll miss Christmas, New Year, Easter and most of 2017. https://youtu.be/LUDEjulbqzk |
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A few years ago I think that the phrase used would have been, "Ahhh, the poor little darlings."
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Was this little box created by the same dinosaurs who've been blaming foreigners for everything? Which group will they blame next... come on... I'm sure we can invent the name before we work out who to throw in it... Oh, I know... idiots. Let's call the people we don't agree with idiots. Far simpler, and no need to keep coming up with ridiculous ways to herd people together. I'll happily live in the box too. Unlike the people who like to label... I know what I am... an idiot.
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"Snowflake" was the name which Bill Reynolds (Rudolph Walker) gave Eddie (Jack Smethurst) in Love Thy Neighbour. He also called him "White Honky".
https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rc...42059868,d.ZWM That was in the days when we could laugh about race and all it involved. When we could call a black person 'Sambo' and they found it funny! The term 'Snowflake' holds no other meaning for me. |
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yeah i know, but i didnt create the term nor the generation it pertains too
the definition i saw mentioned the dates i posted 1981 - 1997. i have no idea what the generation 1997 onwards is!. |
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A few years ago I think that the phrase used would have been, "Ahhh, the poor little darlings."
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Ash is a well known member who hates debate and not accepting other peoples points of view unless it ties in with their own. Labelling them racists or anything she doesn't agree with. All you have to do is look at the post history. Since Brexit it has brought out the worst of the extremes in both sides except this huge grey area of normal people in the middle.
That poster was allowed to continue disrupting those threads with off-topic rants and personal attacks on the people who were in them, but I got a ban for being disrespectful to her in response to her posts in those threads. |
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Just been looking it up. Generation Z is 97 onwards. Hmm, iGeneration. Never heard that one. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_Z
![]() were there 'softies' in the past?.... yes.... but there was far less then there is now. |
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paul jospeh watson has a quite strong opinion of 'generation snowflake' , of which at 26, he is one!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bn_6sU7O43w |
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is really calling someone a 'snowflake' really that much of an issue?
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It can be if it's a lazy put-down of someone who doesn't deserve the term.
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is really calling someone a 'snowflake' really that much of an issue?.... im a boomer, i dont get upset by that, its only a bloody word.
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"Snowflake" was the name which Bill Reynolds (Rudolph Walker) gave Eddie (Jack Smethurst) in Love Thy Neighbour. He also called him "White Honky".
https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rc...42059868,d.ZWM That was in the days when we could laugh about race and all it involved. When we could call a black person 'Sambo' and they found it funny! The term 'Snowflake' holds no other meaning for me. |
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Ahhh! The good old days before the pesky PC police emerged and spoiled all the fun some people had being prejudiced.
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you can't even call someone a 'four-eyed ****' these days without them getting the hump
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There has to be a debate? Is life about political scoring, seriously? There are people out there that cannot handle real life. I don't like the term but it is what it is. People in general hate feeling they've not been listened to, it entrenches their views rather than challenges them and encourages others to support what can be perceived as marginalisation. Condescending labels, even when apparently valid, are fairly much the epitome of not listening to someone, so don't do anything constructive in actually defeating stupid ideas. |
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It's very different in the American University system Muggins.
A long while ago i was reading articles by Law Professors saying students had requested the word "violate" not be used in class because the word was triggering. HERE's one of the articles i read on the subject which is 2 years old now it's only just starting to filter over to this country in the last 12 months or so. SOme students requested the cessation of teaching rape law as it was "distressing". It was this generation of student with this type of obsession with triggering and micro aggression that caused the term snowflake to develop in common parlance. http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/l...825-story.html |
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I've never heard the word 'boomer' used as an insult. 'Snowflake' seems to be a word used by adults to slag off other adults. The usage of it is derogatory whereas the usage of 'boomer' is more akin to Gen X and Y. All it denotes is an age group.
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Well yes, there has to be a debate, at least at more than the superficial level of just dismissive labelling. Otherwise you're not really challenging their views and hopefully making them think again - or at the very least, making sure others think before they also buy into the nonsense.
People in general hate feeling they've not been listened to, it entrenches their views rather than challenges them and encourages others to support what can be perceived as marginalisation. Condescending labels, even when apparently valid, are fairly much the epitome of not listening to someone, so don't do anything constructive in actually defeating stupid ideas. Action over talk. Everybody can talk but very few delivers. |
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I've never seen any outcomes from debates to be honest. Look at Question Time. Decades of talk, no action, nobody being listened to and no change. Talking shop.
Action over talk. Everybody can talk but very few delivers. The supposedly randomly chosen audience also often shout over or boo. |
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maybe, but so bloody what?.... your pov is exactly the sort that created the snowflakes... 'oh look lets get offended by a name call' .... i mean... it might be mildly derogatory, but does it really matter?... seriously?...
I think people have forgotten that one. |
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