"We've all seen the news articles about liberal snowflakes being afraid to see their MAGA relatives at Christmas or holiday gatherings, so the Trump campaign wants people to be ready," Trump campaign national press secretary Kayleigh McEnany said in a statement. The re-election campaign of President Donald Trump launched a new website on Tuesday with the goal of arming the president's supporters with knowledge to "win arguments with liberal friends, relatives and snowflakes they encounter during the holidays."ĭubbed, the site touches on everything from the economy to immigration and health care to impeachment. And the Trump campaign wants its supporters to capitalize on it. “And winter is coming.Holidays, family gatherings and politics don't always mix well. “Damn right we’re snowflakes,” the signs read. There’s a slogan among Trump protesters that’s become increasingly common on protest signs. This is the life cycle of all identity insults, and “snowflake” is already reaching the end of that cycle. The only way to fight back against an insult that doesn’t mean anything is to reclaim it, to diminish its power by making that identity a point of pride. People who thought Hillary Clinton was referring to them as “deplorable” put it in their Twitter names women who related when Trump called Clinton a “nasty woman” responded by emblazoning the phrase on their t-shirts. From queers to suffragettes to impressionist painters, terms meant to deride become a catchy point of pride, a snarky acknowledgement of appealing underdog status that galvanizes membership. The “Sans-culottes” during the French revolution likewise re-appropriated an insult about their lack of britches into a point of anti-elitist pride. “Tory,” and “Whig” are both political party names that rose out of insults. A group united by an offensive label is still united: it’s only a matter of flipping the name into a self-identifier. If branding the political opposition with a nickname is a longstanding tradition, it’s also one that almost inevitably backfires. If only people could put their feelings aside and look at the cold, hard facts. The world is garbage, because only because other people don’t see through the bullshit like you do.
Nineteen-year-olds around the nation read Atlas Shrugged and then watch Brad Pitt wax poetic about how real masculinity means getting to punch Jared Leto in the face, and now feel enlightened. “Everyone is special and unique”? Shut up, snowflake.Ĭalling someone a snowflake combines every single thing a college freshman loves: trolling people on the Internet, a self-satisfied sense of the superiority of one’s own impeccable powers of reasoning, and Fight Club. “Feelings are good”? Facts over feelings. It’s purpose is dismissing liberalism as something effeminate, and also infantile, an outgrowth of the lessons you were taught in kindergarten.
There is not a single political point a liberal can make on the Internet for which “You triggered, snowflake?” cannot be the comeback. If “cuck” is the insult of choice for the alt-right to lump together and dismiss establishment conservatives, “snowflake” has become the go-to for enemies on the left. Have I mentioned that she’s unattractive? She believed the liberal arts teacher who told her being unique is a good thing. The special snowflake is a whining millennial who protests instead of getting a “real job” and cries sexism because she’s upset men don’t find her attractive enough. Garrison may reincarnate the character of the special snowflake into a giant baby, an anthropomorphized megaphone (wielded by George Soros), or any of a number of barnyard animals, but the distinguishing traits are always instantly recognizable: dyed hair-usually blue-cut short, numerous piercings, and a flapping tongue. Garrison himself as a buff hero wielding a pen and a distinguished goatee and a “special snowflake.”
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There are a number of archetypical characters that frequent the work of alt-right political cartoonist Ben Garrison: Donald Trump with an almost sarcastically full helmet of blonde hair a lecherous stereotype of a middle eastern man Mr.
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