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The right love to throw around the term snowflake, and act like their opinions on based on strength and being manly, while others are simply weak. I don't see that at all.
For example the right wingers in the USA think carrying a gun around in their daily life makes them strong, I see it as a sign of weakness and fear, and if you need a gun to feel comfortable at your local coffee shop, you are a snow flake.
They think having compassion and caring for those in weaker positions than you is a sign of weakness, I see compassion as a sign of strength.
They think eating meat makes them Manly, because dominating animals seems manly, however I see taking advantage of defenceless animals being abused in factory farms isn't manly, if anything its bullying, and it takes a lot more strength and "manliness" to go against the status quo, and change your habits.
The "Lefttards" that faced fire hoses, attack dogs and police battens to protest the various human rights issues through history haven't been snowflakes.
The snow flakes are the people fearing change, trying to suppress and hold on to the status quo.
Think about it, how much of a snow flake do you have to be to be scared of equal rights.
Excellent post VC, but things are going a bit far in this country.
Having laws that make it a criminal offence to offend somebody is ridiculous, and political correctness is changing the nature of the country that many have fought to build, eg the proposed renaming of Hobart, and while I don't think some distant English Lord deserves the name, they should find someone more deserving who actually had a hand in making the town what it is today, rather than name it after a bunch of itinerants who just happened to be in the area.