Who Are the Real Snowflakes?

About a month ago, in a Jeep Wrangler forum, someone started a thread with how offensive he found this sentiment.  You can search the internet and find there are a lot of products with the statement "Silly boys... Jeeps are for girls" on it.  I find it to be fun.  I have it on my Wrangler.  To me, it's an empowering sentiment as for many years "girls" or "women" weren't thought of in the rough and tumble world of four-wheeling.  We were supposed to be the delicate flowers at home, ready to clean the mud off of the men when hey returned.

I followed the thread for a bit and most of the posters chided him for being ridiculous.  He was truly offended by it and it became obvious that seeing this statement was something he took as a poke at his manhood.  He didn't know he person who owned the vehicle, so it wasn't a statement directed at him, it's just a general joke out there.  It doesn't say anything specific about someone's race, sex, religion, or political persuasion.

I went and looked at his profile because I knew what I would find.  Typical white, male Trump supporter.  I wonder how many times he's called people "snowflakes."

I was reminded of that this morning when another person who used to be a pretty good friend before they surrendered their thinking to right-wing programming lobbed the term out there in a discussion.  The discussion was not political per se; it was about the possibility of protests going on inside of Disney World by people who disagreed with the company's support of a particular candidate.  (For the record, I do disagree with protesting inside a theme park others have to pay money to get into.  Protesting at the offices is fine, though.  That's not what my point is here, though.)

I don't quite get why those people should be labelled "snowflakes" unless anyone who disagrees with the poster's point of view is automatically one.  No one knows what their feelings are about anything other than this one topic or what they are offended by.  Simply supporting a different candidate than you makes them a "snowflake?"

That's what the whole thing boils down to.  If what you think, what you say, what you do, what you put on your vehicle, bothers me in any way, then you are a "snowflake" in these people's eyes.  It's their way of thinking or you are wrong.  They can't even handle a discussion about it, they just throw out the term as a preemptive strike at the possibility of facts being brought up that show that they are wrong.  It's like saying "Hey, if you are on the other side then you must be a 'snowflake' too. Nyah, nyah, I'm going home and taking my ball with me."

Like "libtard", "snowflake" has become a word that identifies someone who can't have an intelligent, reasoned discussion.  It says way more about the person who throws it out there than it does about the people they are calling that particular word.

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