The term 'snowflake' has been thrown around with abandon in the wake of Brexit and the US election, usually to express generic disdain for young people. How can we neutralise its power - and is it a bad metaphor anyway? Between the immediate aftermath of Brexit and the US presidential election, one insult began to seem inescapable, mostly lobbed from the right to the left: "snowflake." Independent MEP Janice Atkinson, who was expelled from Ukip over allegations of expenses fraud, wrote a piece f...
The term 'snowflake' has been thrown around with abandon in the wake of Brexit and the US election, usually to express generic disdain for young people. How can we neutralise its power - and is it a bad metaphor anyway? Between the immediate aftermath of Brexit and the US presidential election, one insult began to seem inescapable, mostly lobbed from the right to the left: "snowflake." Independent MEP Janice Atkinson, who was expelled from Ukip over allegations of expenses fraud, wrote a piece f...
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