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Call millennials or whoever you want.....snowflakes. But there is no bigger snowflake than Trump who can't handle any criticism. Not a great role model for the young.
There is no "snowflake generation"-far from ALL of today's young people are "snowflakes". I know several late teens/early 20s that are doing very well. My nephew is one, just finished his apprenticeship and got his journeyman's papers as an electrician. Others are machinists, still others in construction.
Snowflakes seem to be primarily young people either in college in liberal arts programs or others that have never bothered to support themselves. And that is far from a young people issue-just look at many of today's celebrities whining and complaining (Kelly Griffith is far from young).
If you ask any life coach, reality is whatever you want it to be. There are some things that are set in stone but as far as your own personal life it's what you want it to be so long as you train your mind to do so (still working on that)
The {R}s are getting more PC with their name calling and deserve credit. Does anyone remember the later 80's when Pat Buchanon coined the term liberal bed wetters. So cut them some slack being called a snowflake is hardly a insult but being called a bed wetter is. If snow flakes were called bed wetters there would be a snow flake melt down and it could cause mass suicides.
Let's ignore for the moment that most young people I see are not not as sensitive as the snowflake bashers claim they are. IOW, the claim is just an internet phenomenon and nothing more.
Even for people (young or not) for whom this IS true, tell me why being a "snowflake" is so bad that they deserve whatever disparagement and contempt they receive - and as intensely (though not the same type, not the difference) of contempt and disparagement we usually reserve for major dishonesties and in extreme cases, even "minor" non-violent felonies?
Also, "snowflake" bashers are being hypocrites when they get triggered by another's display of weakness, weirdness, timidity, stupidity, etc. - even though
1)Merely seeing or hearing about such traits causes only a trivial dissatisfaction compared to being sharply humiliated, degraded, and so forth.
2)"Snowflakiness", so to speak, is clearly not a deliberate attempt to hurt or harm others, or degrade their dignity.
These same people who complain about "hurty feelings" get their own feelings hurt when they see removal of Confederate statues, hear calls to treat sexual harassment more seriously, and see efforts to call sexual harassers and bullies to account for their actions (i.e. take responsibility for the indignities they cause their victims). Don't even ask about some people's calls to repeal the second amendment or modify the first amendment. And do I even have to bring up Alex Jones and Michael Savage?
Such irony. Most of these folks call anyone who seems a bit sensitive a snowflake IF they are a liberal, yet they helped put a whole damn blizzard in the White House.
Is there anything that doesn't offend people today? We raised a generation of butt hurt, criers. By we I mean the entire baby boomer generation. We complain about the millinials, well who raised them?
Call millennials or whoever you want.....snowflakes. But there is no bigger snowflake than Trump who can't handle any criticism. Not a great role model for the young.
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