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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 5 months ago

Snowflake is such a weird insult as it seems to imply it's best to just be like everyone else

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Snowflake is such a weird insult as it seems to imply it's best to just be like everyone else

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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 5 months ago

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I think the idea is that saying snowflake as an insult implies that being unique is a bad thing.
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    Also “snowflake” isn’t about being unique at all.
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      Traditionally, that’s what the insult meant. It would seem that modern usage is shifting.

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