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Melting: Young People Say Calling Them ‘Snowflake’ Damages Their Mental Health
Breitbart Tech ^ | 12-6-2017 | Tom Ciccotta

Posted on 12/07/2017 3:57:59 AM PST by Sir Napsalot

A new survey reveals that young people believe being called a “snowflake” could be damaging to their mental health.

A new survey by insurance firm Aviva found that 72 percent of 16 to 24-year-olds believe the term “snowflake” is unfairly applied to millennials. 74 percent of respondents took it a step farther, arguing that they believe the use of the label could have a negative effect on young people’s mental health.

The study was born out of interest in the term “snowflake generation” which was originally used to describe young people who thought they were unique or special. .........

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Dr. Doug Wright argues that because young people are more likely to experience mental health issues than older generations, they are especially susceptible to damage as a result of usage of the “snowflake” label. ...... he said. “Any term used disparagingly to a segment of the population is inherently negative.”

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: dougwright; generationsnowflake; snowflake; snowflakegeneration; snowflakes
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This "Snowflake Generation" young people are extra sensitive about being name-called.

How do pervious generations of younguns ever survive to adulthood?

1 posted on 12/07/2017 3:57:59 AM PST by Sir Napsalot
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To: Sir Napsalot

To which the old coach in me replies, “Suck it up, buttercups”.


2 posted on 12/07/2017 4:01:31 AM PST by fungoking (Tis a pleasure to live in the 0zarks)
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To: Sir Napsalot

*sniff*


3 posted on 12/07/2017 4:01:34 AM PST by Doogle (( USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand....never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
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To: Sir Napsalot

Bunch of faggots.


4 posted on 12/07/2017 4:01:42 AM PST by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: Sir Napsalot

Snowflakes...


5 posted on 12/07/2017 4:02:56 AM PST by mowowie
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To: Sir Napsalot

Snowflakes are pretty much confirming the stereotype with this, aren’t they?


6 posted on 12/07/2017 4:03:19 AM PST by Riley (The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column.)
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Melting: Young People Say Calling Them ‘Snowflake’ Damages Their Mental Health and thereby confirm our characterization.
7 posted on 12/07/2017 4:04:39 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Psephomancers for Hillary!)
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Young People Say Calling Them ‘Snowflake’ Damages Their Mental Health

Old people just snicker at their irony deficiency.

8 posted on 12/07/2017 4:05:48 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Psephomancers for Hillary!)
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To: Sir Napsalot

Geez! Well stop reading about the plight of the Native Americans in the 5th century and go out and chop some wood! That may help!


9 posted on 12/07/2017 4:06:08 AM PST by cotton1706
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To: Riley

gmta


10 posted on 12/07/2017 4:06:24 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Psephomancers for Hillary!)
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To: Sir Napsalot
The same people who call everybody that disagrees with them on even the minutia of their homohislamic agenda a bigot, misogynist, racist, nazi...will melt if they are called snowflakes in return.

Playgrounds used to teach kids that if you poke someone, you might get punched back in the nose.

11 posted on 12/07/2017 4:13:31 AM PST by Sirius Lee (In God We Trust, In Trump We Fix America)
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jogger just got hit by a car directly in front of my house.
happened to look out my window 10 seconds after it happened.
ran outside and called 911.
millennial girl in new Mercedes was looking at her gps on phone when it happened.
looks like broken ankle and shoulder and wrist injury.
he’ll be ok.
she seemed nice, freaking out but nice.
hope both will be ok.
the 4 cop cars, 2 fire engines and ambulance just left.

What a way to stat the day.
my heart is still pounding...


12 posted on 12/07/2017 4:17:01 AM PST by mowowie
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Proving their name, “Snowflakes”, put a little heat on them, and they MELT.

If they inherit the world, we’ll devolve back to the stone age.


13 posted on 12/07/2017 4:17:30 AM PST by FrankR (On the knees is not a good place to be...a man on the knees is only half a man.....)
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Snowflakes melt down at being called...snowflakes.

It doesn't get any better than this!

14 posted on 12/07/2017 4:18:47 AM PST by grobdriver (BUILD KATE'S WALL!)
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Note, the author of the study said ".... the majority of adults agree that the term is unfair and unhelpful"

Accurate diagnosing and labeling is not permitted because it might hurt someone's feelings. These 'majority of adults' are probably the same ones telling the young that they are extra special fragile snowflakes in the first place.

This perpetuates the situation, not helping, the young people in snowflake generation.

15 posted on 12/07/2017 4:21:36 AM PST by Sir Napsalot (Pravda + Useful Idiots = USSR; Journ0List + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey)
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To: Sir Napsalot

Pot meet kettle.

Stop calling people racists, haters, fascists, and every other nasty term you sling at everyone every time you throw a tantrum.


16 posted on 12/07/2017 4:26:41 AM PST by OpusatFR
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The bigger problems for these younger generations are not rooted in the names they may or may not be called. Their problems include a huge and rising national debt they will inherit. Rapid demographic shifts without assimilation. Feckless and corrupt politicians who send the young into battle, then squander what they gave their lives or their limbs for. Massive government corruption. These are just for starters.


17 posted on 12/07/2017 4:27:26 AM PST by neverevergiveup
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>>> looks like broken ankle and shoulder and wrist injury.
he’ll be ok.

Thank goodness. Hope the young girl learn something from this.


18 posted on 12/07/2017 4:28:37 AM PST by Sir Napsalot (Pravda + Useful Idiots = USSR; Journ0List + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey)
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To: Sir Napsalot

Pansies


19 posted on 12/07/2017 4:31:53 AM PST by MadLibDisease (Proudly residing in Dar-al-Harb since 1959)
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“How do previous generations of younguns ever survive to adulthood?”

They weren’t protected from the dope slaps of life.


20 posted on 12/07/2017 4:32:36 AM PST by Stormdog (A rifle transforms one from subject to Citizen)
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