Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 3 months agoSnowflake is such a weird insult as it seems to imply it's best to just be like everyone elsemessage-squaremessage-square32fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1message-squareSnowflake is such a weird insult as it seems to imply it's best to just be like everyone elseThorny_Insight@lemm.ee to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 3 months agomessage-square32fedilink
minus-squareOpenopenopenopen@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·3 months agoI guess I don’t understand your thinking. Supposedly, Every snowflake is unique. Therefore Being a snowflake means you are unique. How does being a snowflake imply that you’re being just like everyone else?
minus-squareAurenkin@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up0·3 months agoI think the idea is that saying snowflake as an insult implies that being unique is a bad thing.
minus-squareOpenopenopenopen@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·3 months agoAhh. Yeah, I see it now. Sometimes I’m a bit dense. Thanks.
minus-squareThorny_Insight@lemm.eeOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·3 months agoIt doesn’t. It implies that being unique is a bad thing.
I guess I don’t understand your thinking.
Supposedly, Every snowflake is unique. Therefore Being a snowflake means you are unique.
How does being a snowflake imply that you’re being just like everyone else?
I think the idea is that saying snowflake as an insult implies that being unique is a bad thing.
Ahh. Yeah, I see it now. Sometimes I’m a bit dense. Thanks.
It doesn’t. It implies that being unique is a bad thing.