@Sieve70 Hey, Sieve, there are many words I would like to strike from our vocabulary but the one I find truly troubling is the word "snowflake" used in a derogatory term to people.
The history of this word is a truly horrifying time in our history that should NEVER be repeated.
Please excuse me Ohr but I feel this has to be said. A snowflake was used to describe the ashes of the people being burned during WWII by the town's nearest the concentration camps. /1
@Desmblake @kel @Kronykal @Sieve70 I didn't know this - thank you for making me wiser. Puts things in a much different light, especially since its so casually used in the media as well. Wish they'd educate themselves and avoid it
@Desmblake When people deride others as snowflakes, the ashen remains of cremated genocide are not part of their thinking. There may be a Nazi asshole or two that think along those lines, but most people certainly don't.
I can appreciate the effort to be sensitive about terms like this, but I honestly think that conflating them with their worst possible meaning is counterproductive. @Kronykal @Sieve70 @heartshunter
@kel then where did it come from if not a previous comment made that was later adopted by those wanting them to feel less. The meaning is still there, now people need to know the history.
I dont agree with calling or labeling people, we are all trying to live our lives the best we can regardless of our believes, experiences and hardships. I just wish this woud stop, this word has been thrown around too much.
@Desmblake The simplest explanation is that snowflakes are delicate and easily melted.
The flip side is that citing the Nazi use of the term inherently frames anyone who derides others as snowflakes as being aligned with Nazis. That's what makes it counterproductive to cite the worst context.
I don't get offended at people who call others snowflakes. Most of the time, anyone using that as a denigrating insult is making themselves look just so. @VayehiOhr @Kronykal @Sieve70 @heartshunter
@kel @heartshunter @Sieve70 @Kronykal @VayehiOhr @Desmblake There's a few other terms I'd like to stop seeing used as a pejorative... in no particular order.
Jew- as in "jewed them down to get a good deal." (self-explanatory)
gay- "Ballet is so GAY". (also self-explanatory)
Gyp or Gip- "Man, I got gipped on that deal after all." (Gypsies -- Romany or otherwise --did NOTHING and do not deserve this reputation)
SJW - As if being aware of social justice and wanting to help is ever bad?
@Heucuva8 @Desmblake @VayehiOhr @Kronykal @Sieve70 @heartshunter @kel
You know what word has no politics?
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@ucantstop_me Also, "bananas." @heartshunter @Sieve70 @Kronykal @VayehiOhr @Desmblake @Heucuva8
@ucantstop_me @kel @heartshunter @Sieve70 @Kronykal @VayehiOhr @Desmblake @Heucuva8
I think love is ridiculously political. LOL
It will send people into a rage depending on the context.
@espyonage Yes, politicians try to use it to further their own agenda's, however it often just isn't all that effective, love often just overcomes race, religious, sex, political ideology divides - people generally become very accepting these differences when they love others
@heartshunter Yes absolutely but how many from all political spectrums separate their beliefs from what they believe love to be and personal interactions with others? It's a crazy thing this love.
@kel @heartshunter @Sieve70 @Kronykal @VayehiOhr True great point.
Great discussion and no throwing of poo at each other....😉
@kel @heartshunter @Sieve70 @Kronykal @VayehiOhr @Desmblake the snowflake in my name is bc of the “libtard snowflake” insult. But snowflakes are pretty and they’re individual, like people. So I owned it.
@Desmblake @VayehiOhr @Kronykal @Sieve70 @heartshunter @kel A few years ago, in one of those cockeyed efforts to talk children into believing it's ok not to fit in, someone said "no 2 snowflakes are alike. You are a special snowflake. There's no one just like you" that's the origin 🙄young children desperately want to NOT be different. With guidance and supervision, we can get them through it without telling them stories. Just let them evolve as humans. This is where it came from.
@Desmblake @kel @Kronykal @Sieve70 WOW! I had not heard this before. Even more horrifying that’s it’s callously used as a coded put down by the alt right. Infuriated me! How many of us have friends & families that were wiped out or know someone whose were?!
@Groovyeli Exactly, makes me sick to my stomach. I have a hard time not equating this to that horrible time. I cant separate it as anything but this reference
My grandfather rescused the people from one of these camps. He was never the same, he committed suicide not long after coming home from the war. Not sure if what he saw was a factor, War is never pretty, but I think some of it did. Never got to meet him my mom was still a baby when he did this.
@Desmblake @kel @Kronykal @Sieve70 so very sorry about your Grandfather, that is heartbreaking. Your poor mom & grandmother!
I’m worried to, the authoritarian echos, de-humanizing of people who are not white Protestant is really worrisome.
@Desmblake Sorry, but this is patently false.
@Desmblake @kel @Kronykal @Sieve70 I never, ever knew that. Thank you for sharing. PC may be annoying, but I never want to be hurtful. I have never heard that before. Wow.
@Kitty62862 Take it with a grain of salt.
Consider: What happens if we start reviling otherwise insensitive insults as full-on Nazi nomenclature?
Nothing good, imo. @Sieve70 @Kronykal @Desmblake
@kel @Kronykal @Sieve70 That word, used in that context, is hurtful to those who know what it truly means /end