The latest snowflake outrage...

HAL9000

Can't they just both be called Elton?

robgilmo

I think the term ''snowflakes'' used to describe brave people (usually the younger generation, i.e. not us old has beens) who stand up for what they believe in, such as, those who have the balls to tackle inequality, environmental issues, employment law , poverty etc should not be used to describe dicks , yes, I said it, dicks who post petitions like these. 

Emp_Fab

Well said Rob.  The term has been used pejoratively by the right-wing media for years and is now being bleated by the moron division of the public.  Significant numbers of these stories are fiction, but the bleating morons love to feel indignation and outrage and are too dense to realise what’s going on.  

siremoon

Emp_Fab said:

Well said Rob.  The term has been used pejoratively by the right-wing media for years and is now being bleated by the moron division of the public.  Significant numbers of these stories are fiction, but the bleating morons love to feel indignation and outrage and are too dense to realise what’s going on.  

The genuine issues have been diluted by left-leaning liberals widening the scope into things that don't have negative meanings.  Almost as though they are looking for things to make an issue of where no real issue exists.  As someone said higher up it's just taking words out of context.    

robgilmo

siremoon said:

Emp_Fab said:

Well said Rob.  The term has been used pejoratively by the right-wing media for years and is now being bleated by the moron division of the public.  Significant numbers of these stories are fiction, but the bleating morons love to feel indignation and outrage and are too dense to realise what’s going on.  

The genuine issues have been diluted by left-leaning liberals widening the scope into things that don't have negative meanings.  Almost as though they are looking for things to make an issue of where no real issue exists.  As someone said higher up it's just taking words out of context.    

The genuine issues are being diluted by the general public who choose to ignore them. Blaming it on politics is like blaming pollution on a car and not its driver.

strtdv

Who cares if people are offended.

Rushdie was spot-on

Revolting1

strtdv said:

Who cares if people are offended.

Rushdie was spot-on

As was Zappa      

          Most of the time.

Funkfingers

robgilmo said:

the younger generation ... who stand up for what they believe in

What were young people standing up for eighty years ago? Dictators. 

MattBanshee

Funkfingers said:

robgilmo said:

the younger generation ... who stand up for what they believe in

What were young people standing up for eighty years ago? Dictators. 

80 years ago being 1939, so you're saying that young people were going off to fight the Nazis, not because they utterly deplored their fascist ideology and wanted to defend the freedom of European neighbours, but because "Dictators"?

p90fool

MattBanshee said:

Funkfingers said:

robgilmo said:

the younger generation ... who stand up for what they believe in

What were young people standing up for eighty years ago? Dictators. 

80 years ago being 1939, so you're saying that young people were going off to fight the Nazis, not because they utterly deplored their fascist ideology and wanted to defend the freedom of European neighbours, but because "Dictators"?

That's a very modern spin on "kicking the Krauts 'cos of what they did to my uncle" if I may say so. 

Nitefly

MattBanshee said:

Funkfingers said:

robgilmo said:

the younger generation ... who stand up for what they believe in

What were young people standing up for eighty years ago? Dictators. 

80 years ago being 1939, so you're saying that young people were going off to fight the Nazis, not because they utterly deplored their fascist ideology and wanted to defend the freedom of European neighbours, but because "Dictators"?

I think he's saying that young people were the Nazis...

MattBanshee

Nitefly said:

MattBanshee said:

Funkfingers said:

robgilmo said:

the younger generation ... who stand up for what they believe in

What were young people standing up for eighty years ago? Dictators. 

80 years ago being 1939, so you're saying that young people were going off to fight the Nazis, not because they utterly deplored their fascist ideology and wanted to defend the freedom of European neighbours, but because "Dictators"?

I think he's saying that young people were the Nazis...

Well, they were also the young people from allied nations who were putting their lives on the line to fight them, so it's not a very well-made point.

robgilmo

This isnt 80 years ago, we have a whole new set of problems to deal with, or more to the point, our kids do.

Hootsmon

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Blueingreen

MattBanshee said:

Funkfingers said:

robgilmo said:

the younger generation ... who stand up for what they believe in

What were young people standing up for eighty years ago? Dictators. 

80 years ago being 1939, so you're saying that young people were going off to fight the Nazis, not because they utterly deplored their fascist ideology and wanted to defend the freedom of European neighbours, but because "Dictators"?

Their opinions about fascism were not the motivating factor for the vast majority of people going to fight.  German expansionism was felt to be an existential threat to this country, so much so that our Government declared war.  Our soldiers were a mixture of loyal patriots who thought it their duty to fight and a fairly chunky amount of reluctant conscripts who felt they had no choice.  Detestation of fascist idealogy would have played an almost negligible part, as would have concern for foreigners.  Churchill wasn't very far removed from a fascist himself in many of his beliefs and many in our ruling classes were Nazi sympathisers. The war wasn't about ideology, it was about not being dominated by foreigners.

soma1975

Bloke that came up with that petition is an absolute socket. 

I'm sure it was all just a bit of fun though. 

Wolfetone

Emp_Fab said:

Well said Rob.  The term has been used pejoratively by the right-wing media for years and is now being bleated by the moron division of the public.  Significant numbers of these stories are fiction, but the bleating morons love to feel indignation and outrage and are too dense to realise what’s going on.  

Wikipedia says.....

Snowflake (slang) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Snowflake is a 2010s derogatory slang term for a person, implying that they have an inflated sense of uniqueness, an unwarranted sense of entitlement, or are overly-emotional, easily offended, and unable to deal with opposing opinions.

Pretty much spot on I would say.

Wolfetone

robgilmo said:

This isnt 80 years ago, we have a whole new set of problems to deal with, or more to the point, our kids do.

What, like flying a bomber over Germany at the age  of twenty-one or  eighteen years of age sitting in a trench on the Somme being shot and gassed?

Need I go on.....

robgilmo

Wolfetone said:

robgilmo said:

This isnt 80 years ago, we have a whole new set of problems to deal with, or more to the point, our kids do.

What, like flying a bomber over Germany at the age  of twenty-one or  eighteen years of age sitting in a trench on the Somme being shot and gassed?

Need I go on.....

No, I said a whole ''new'' set of problems, what I didn't say was ''the same'' problems. How about imminent mass extinction due to what could well be irreversible climate change? I think thats a pretty shit legacy top leave our kids, dont you? And I think the people , kids , wanting change are well justified and a whole lot braver than the term ''snowflake'' gives them credit for.

WiresDreamDisasters

robgilmo said:

siremoon said:

Emp_Fab said:

Well said Rob.  The term has been used pejoratively by the right-wing media for years and is now being bleated by the moron division of the public.  Significant numbers of these stories are fiction, but the bleating morons love to feel indignation and outrage and are too dense to realise what’s going on.  

The genuine issues have been diluted by left-leaning liberals widening the scope into things that don't have negative meanings.  Almost as though they are looking for things to make an issue of where no real issue exists.  As someone said higher up it's just taking words out of context.    

The genuine issues are being diluted by the general public who choose to ignore them. Blaming it on politics is like blaming pollution on a car and not its driver.

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