"It does come from Fight Club,” Palahniuk told the Evening Standard. “There is a line, ‘You are not special. You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake.'”
The phrase “Snowflake” has been adopted by conservative commentators to describe the contingent of whiny, self-absorbed millennials whose war on free speech on university campuses has become cause célèbre thanks to a disproportionate amount of media attention.
To be sure, Palahniuk has noticed this phenomena of the “easily offended.”
“There is a kind of new Victorianism,” he said. “Every generation gets offended by different things but my friends who teach in high school tell me that their students are very easily offended.”
http://www.breitbart.com/big-hollywood/2017/01/24/fight-club-author-chuck-palahniuk-credited-term-snowflake/
The phrase “Snowflake” has been adopted by conservative commentators to describe the contingent of whiny, self-absorbed millennials whose war on free speech on university campuses has become cause célèbre thanks to a disproportionate amount of media attention.
To be sure, Palahniuk has noticed this phenomena of the “easily offended.”
“There is a kind of new Victorianism,” he said. “Every generation gets offended by different things but my friends who teach in high school tell me that their students are very easily offended.”
http://www.breitbart.com/big-hollywood/2017/01/24/fight-club-author-chuck-palahniuk-credited-term-snowflake/