A "Special" Snowflake Manifesto

spe·cial snow·flake

noun

humorous

plural noun: special snowflakes

1. a person with supposedly unique characteristics or attributes that entitle them to privileged treatment or particular consideration.

Trump lovers like to call his detractors “snowflakes”, as if their feelings are a liability, their passions a reason for embarrassment, their grief a sign of weakness. (The attempted slur is especially ironic, given the absolute historic white fragility of the President-Elect, whose Twitter feed rings like the petulant cries of a perpetually offended middle schooler—but that is neither here nor there.)

No, one snowflake isn’t likely to make an impact—but I’m betting 65,788,853 can.====source

65,000,000 of us