Meet ‘Generation Snowflake’

[tod evans]

From Drudge;


TRIGGER WARNING Meet ‘Generation Snowflake’ – the hysterical young women who can’t cope with being offended




British thinktank boss says mollycoddled kids are breaking down in tears when asked to deal with controversial ideas.

A top British thinker has claimed young women are in the grip of a “hysteria” which has made them unable to cope with being offended.

Claire Fox, head of a thinktank called the Institute of Ideas, has penned a coruscating critique of “Generation Snowflake”, the name given to a growing group of youngsters who “believe it’s their right to be protected from anything they might find unpalatable”.

She said British and American universities are dominated by cabals of young women who are dead set on banning anything they find remotely offensive.

“It makes me sad that these teens and 20-somethings have become so fearful that they believe a dissenting opinion can pose such a serious threat,” Fox wrote in an article for Mail Online.

This hyper-sensitivity has prompted the University of East Anglia to outlaw sombreros in a Mexican restaurant and caused the National Union of Student to ban clapping as “as it might trigger trauma”, asking youngsters to use “jazz hands” instead.

Books containing troublesome material are now slapped with “trigger warnings”, whilst universities and student unions are declared “safe spaces” where young people should not have to encounter anything they disagree with.

Fox described astonishing scenes at an event set up to discuss whether the public outcry against footballer Ched Evans was “social justice or mob rule”.

The academic said her mostly female audience broke down in tears after she “dared suggest (as eminent feminists have before me) that rape wasn’t necessarily the worst thing a woman could experience”.

Fox added: “I expected robust discussion – not for them all to dissolve into outraged gasps of, ‘You can’t say that!’

“Their reaction shocked me. I take no pleasure in making teenagers cry, but it also brought home the contrast to previous generations of young people, who would have relished the chance to argue back.

“It illustrated this generation’s almost belligerent sense of entitlement. They assume their emotional suffering takes precedence. Express a view they disagree with and you must immediately recant and apologise.”

Generation Snowflake has also created a social minefield for young boys and men, who risk being labelled “sex pests” for twanging a girl’s bra at school, Fox continued.

She said women were opting to stay at home and socialise on the internet due to overblown fears about predatory men.

“There is a strand of self-absorption and fragility running through this generation; all too ready to cry ‘victim’ at the first hint of a situation they don’t like,” Fox concluded.

“We need a younger generation that’s prepared to grow a backbone, go out into the world, take risks and make difficult decisions. Otherwise the future doesn’t bode well for any of us.”

Claire Fox has penned a book about Generation Snowflake which is called I Find That Offensive and was published by Biteback in May.

[silverhandorder]

It feels like everyone is a king today. This behavior is what brought down the French court. I am sure it probably happened in many late stage societies before. Snowflakes have to melt I guess before we can resume sane lives.

When there is no more money and that is coming soon they will be the first ones to feel consequences of bad decisions. The only thing is that I truly feel bad that this will happen.

[Ronin Truth]

Getting offended has become a pathetic booming major growth industry in Amerika.

[donnay]

Now this is where I hope there is global warming--melt their asses!

[helmuth_hubener]

Here is the shocking truth. Are you ready? Well, no one's going to believe me anyway. Should I just skip it? Maybe I should just skip it.

No, I'll say it anyway!! Who cares that you aren't going to believe me! Here's the truth:

We've all been mollycoddled!

It's a continuum! When a civilization is in its declining phase, every generation thinks that the next generation is being mollycoddled, and every generation is RIGHT! Our own civilization's Point Of Minimum Mollycoddling was somewhere around the late 1500s. Not a lot of mollycoddling going on back then! Shape up or get beaten senseless. And then hung from the gallows. And the whole town will come watch and cheer. That harshness and severity was kind of the foundation on which our civilizational success was built, peaking a few hundred years later in the Victorian Era (delayed reaction). The environmental harshness helps a lot, too: simply put, not enough food to go around.

When is the last time you sent your kid to bed without supper? When was the last time your kids had moderate (much less severe) calorie restriction for many weeks on end? When was the last time you did?

QED. Mollycoddled.

[FindLiberty]

Milo might approve of this thread

[Origanalist]

Here is the shocking truth. Are you ready? Well, no one's going to believe me anyway. Should I just skip it? Maybe I should just skip it.

No, I'll say it anyway!! Who cares that you aren't going to believe me! Here's the truth:

We've all been mollycoddled!

It's a continuum! When a civilization is in its declining phase, every generation thinks that the next generation is being mollycoddled, and every generation is RIGHT! Our own civilization's Point Of Minimum Mollycoddling was somewhere around the late 1500s. Not a lot of mollycoddling going on back then! Shape up or get beaten senseless. And then hung from the gallows. And the whole town will come watch and cheer. That harshness and severity was kind of the foundation on which our civilizational success was built, peaking a few hundred years later in the Victorian Era (delayed reaction). The environmental harshness helps a lot, too: simply put, not enough food to go around.

When is the last time you sent your kid to bed without supper? When was the last time your kids had moderate (much less severe) calorie restriction for many weeks on end? When was the last time you did?

QED. Mollycoddled.

Now you've done it, you just triggered me. HOW DARE YOU ???!!!???

[timosman]

Here is the shocking truth. Are you ready? Well, no one's going to believe me anyway. Should I just skip it? Maybe I should just skip it.

No, I'll say it anyway!! Who cares that you aren't going to believe me! Here's the truth:

We've all been mollycoddled!

It's a continuum! When a civilization is in its declining phase, every generation thinks that the next generation is being mollycoddled, and every generation is RIGHT! Our own civilization's Point Of Minimum Mollycoddling was somewhere around the late 1500s. Not a lot of mollycoddling going on back then! Shape up or get beaten senseless. And then hung from the gallows. And the whole town will come watch and cheer. That harshness and severity was kind of the foundation on which our civilizational success was built, peaking a few hundred years later in the Victorian Era (delayed reaction). The environmental harshness helps a lot, too: simply put, not enough food to go around.

When is the last time you sent your kid to bed without supper? When was the last time your kids had moderate (much less severe) calorie restriction for many weeks on end? When was the last time you did?

QED. Mollycoddled.

Bring back the Thunderdome.

[CaptUSA]

Books containing troublesome material are now slapped with “trigger warnings”, whilst universities and student unions are declared “safe spaces” where young people should not have to encounter anything they disagree with.

I'm offended by dangling prepositions. Time to sue this author.

[heavenlyboy34]

Here is the shocking truth. Are you ready? Well, no one's going to believe me anyway. Should I just skip it? Maybe I should just skip it.

No, I'll say it anyway!! Who cares that you aren't going to believe me! Here's the truth:

We've all been mollycoddled!

It's a continuum! When a civilization is in its declining phase, every generation thinks that the next generation is being mollycoddled, and every generation is RIGHT! Our own civilization's Point Of Minimum Mollycoddling was somewhere around the late 1500s. Not a lot of mollycoddling going on back then! Shape up or get beaten senseless. And then hung from the gallows. And the whole town will come watch and cheer. That harshness and severity was kind of the foundation on which our civilizational success was built, peaking a few hundred years later in the Victorian Era (delayed reaction). The environmental harshness helps a lot, too: simply put, not enough food to go around.

When is the last time you sent your kid to bed without supper? When was the last time your kids had moderate (much less severe) calorie restriction for many weeks on end? When was the last time you did?

QED. Mollycoddled.

I fast during the major fast seasons and some of the minor fasts myself (Lent,Nativity, etc). It's actually a discipline I wish I'd learned much younger.

[Natural Citizen]

Heh. This reminds me of something. I was on another largely liberal/socialist/worldly demographic forum that's since shut down after 15 years or so, and one of my friends who happens to be a woman called some liberal guy snowflake. You know how the progressive types tend to like to play the victim card? Well, he did that a lot. Except he also tried to come off as a badass and was very vitriolic toward liberty minded people. It was funny when she did that. He got pissed. I almost choked on my coffee. I giggled my rear end off. He really was a big ol' pussy. But a very vitriolic Internet bully from behind his keyboard.

Ah well. Guess you had to be there to appreciate the humor. Thread just reminded me of it is all.

I actually miss that forum. I did my best writing on that forum among all of those socialists, progressives, and, otherwise worldly types. They freaking hated me with a passion but they were the gift that kept on giving. They were very useful in that there was always a reason to write about our Republic and how it is supposed to function. Its history. It was a great teaching platform, for sure. Around here we're kind of just preaching to the choir. So, I don't bother. It's been done here already. Many, many times over again. And by better people than me at it.

[oyarde]

I was not mollycoddled and am better off for it .

[CaptUSA]

“We need a younger generation that’s prepared to grow a backbone, go out into the world, take risks and make difficult decisions. Otherwise the future doesn’t bode well for any of us.”

Ironically, this actually gives me hope for my son. He'll be head and shoulders above his competition. And I suspect that within a few years, we're going to see the education bubble finally burst and employers won't care about degrees anymore seeing as how they're useless pieces of paper that only signify how much debt you accumulated for a false promise.

The future is pretty damned bright for kids who make their own way. (but then, it's always kinda been that way, hasn't it?)

[Cleaner44]

[pcosmar]

We've all been mollycoddled!

Obviously did not go to my school.

but you can tour it.
http://www.missouripentours.com/

[DamianTV]

Bring back the Thunderdome.

Naa, lets update it. These idiot kids dont know what the Thunderdome is. And the name implies loud sounds which could scare them, especially if they Clap! Methinks we need the Trigglypuff Dome instead!

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Dig deeper. There is always an underlying cause. I think the real heart of the matter here is that Generation Y or Generation Snowflake are taught to not think for themselves in any way, shape, or form. They do not think that their behavior could ever be bad because that is what they are taught to think. They do not think about the consequences of their expectations and entitlements on others because that is exactly what they are taught to think. They do not think that their Rights have limits, drawn by the Equal Rights of others because that is what they are taught to think. Actually, I believe they are taught to think that there is no such thing as Rights. They are taught to let others do their thinking for them. They think they deserve to inherit the earth, but when the time comes, they do not have to let their children inherit their earth.

Generation Snowflake has been taught to not think at all.

[AZJoe]