Reclaiming the Snowflake

There’s been a lot of talk about snowflakes recently. When the term was first coined, a “special snowflake” meant someone who claimed that everything was triggering them, even though they did not have post-traumatic stress disorder, were not a rape survivor, nor a survivor of some other significant trauma.

Recently, however, the term “snowflake” has been picked up by right-wingers and applied to anyone with a heart, a social conscience, or who supports a welfare state and public healthcare.

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