I get your story and agree that people with different can and should be able to be friends and discuss their different opinions, etc. However, I don't think your friend was being called snowflake 4+ years ago.Johnsell50 wrote:The funny thing is, my best friend in Thailand was a snowflake. He worked in consulates all over Asia for many years and had a Thai wife. He knew I was a conservative and we discussed for hours on end our ideas and ideals and why we felt the way we did, both knowing we would probably never bring the other over to our way of thinking. We never got angry or called each other names and he would laugh at being called a snowflake as I laugh at all the names they call me. I lost him because he refused to wear a helmet to ride his bike. He took on a cow at about 30 MPH and met a tree with his head. He got a busted skull and a major concussion and I still miss him after 4 years. What I am trying to say is two people with opposite views can get along as long as they respect each other as people. No one needs to get angry or put other people or their ideals down just because we don't agree. Nuff said!
True, it seems to stem from the 1994 novel/1999 movie Fightclub ("you are not special, you are not a beautiful and unique snowflake"), but it started being used as "snowflake generation" to talk about millennials that were easily offended (popularized in 2015). A November 2016 article from The Guardian commented: "Until very recently, to call someone a snowflake would have involved the word 'generation'."
My point is, you don't need to embellish your good story with falsehoods, as it discredits the rest of the story.