Citations:snowflakery

English citations of snowflakery

Noun: "(slang, derogatory) the state or quality of being easily offended or insulted"

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• 2017, Austin Rhodes, "Hollywood Freedoms Secured by Conservative Soldiers", Metro Spirit, 12 January 2017, page 30:

  So apparently [Meryl] Streep can cheer on a convicted child rapist who cannot come to America for fear of incarceration, but the guy who teases people makes her cry. Snowflakery.

• 2017, Kathleen Parker, "Standing athwart history shouting, 'Whatever, baby!'", The Sumter Item, 23 February 2017, page A17:

  It seems no one outside of a comedy club wants to hear what Milo has to say. Yes, suppression of unwelcome speech and all the attendant snowflakery on college campuses deserves a passionate challenge; but there are plenty of others who could make the case for intellectual diversity without engaging the perverse.

• 2017, Daniel Conrad, "Disrupting D'Souza: dangerous or defensible?", The Trinitonian (Trinity University), 3 March 2017, page 4:

  Robby Soave, associate editor for popular libertarian media website Reason.com, accused Jonah of sensitivity and "snowflakery" for filing the harassment claim.

• 2017, Jenni Frazer, "Why does no one want to listen to anybody else?", Jewish News, 4 May 2017, page 19:

  However, there was a great deal of snowflakery and “safe-space-ism” surrounding Regev's appearance, as though the choice were not there for the angry demonstrators simply to ignore him.

• 2017, Connor Foarde, "Rebuttal: 'Disrespectful Term 'Snowflake' Should Not be a Part of Georgia Politics", in "Red & Black Rebuttals: In the Interest of Balance", The Arch Conservative, Fall 2017, page 16:

  Snowflakery is a product of the permeation of identity politics among young people, who act awry when someone challenges their worldview because they see it as a direct attack on their identities.

• 2018, Claire Fox, I STILL Find That Offensive!, unnumbered page:

  Snowflakery is undoubtedly used as a dismissive insult, a way of lampooning the most outlandish aspects of the easily offended culture without actually engaging with it.

• 2018, Jonathan Weisman, (((Semitism))): Being Jewish in America in the Age of Trump, page 22:

  Not content with one violent clash between right-wing thugs and left-wing anarchists, verbal bomb thrower Ann Coulter decided that she, too, would speak at Berkeley, only to back down in the face of militant special snowflakery.

• 2018, Molly Moss, "Editorial: new beginnings start here", The Cambridge Student (Cambridge University), 18 January 2018, page 2:

  In recent weeks the furore surrounding Theresa May's appointment of no-platforming obsessive Toby Young to the board of the Office for Students has been at the centre of arguments about the snowflakery and privilege of students.

• 2019, Elizabeth Johnston, Not on My Watch: How to Win the Fight for Family, Faith and Freedom, unnumbered page:

  So now it is graphic violence or "mature content" to make a political statement in favor of veterans' benefits? Oh, the snowflakery!

• 2019, Maisie Martson, "The Snowflake Generation", Quench Magazine (Cardiff University), April 2019, page 11:

  I can't imagine the levels of snowflakery that are associated with writing an article about how the term snowflake offends you.