{"id":74780,"date":"2017-09-18T08:00:17","date_gmt":"2017-09-18T12:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=74780"},"modified":"2017-09-18T08:25:41","modified_gmt":"2017-09-18T12:25:41","slug":"debunking-another-leftist-lie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=74780","title":{"rendered":"Debunking Yet Another False Claim"},"content":{"rendered":"

Something happened recently that bothered me.\u00a0 And since it may have happened to other TAH readers, I decided to write this article detailing the facts – just in case someone else might need them.<\/p>\n

The other day, I was conversing with a friend who\u2019s more liberal politically than I am.\u00a0 They informed me I shouldn\u2019t use the term \u201cspecial little snowflake\u201d, as it had a dark history.\u00a0 They weren’t much more specific.<\/p>\n

Now, unlike some I tend to do a bit of homework before running my yap.\u00a0 But something about that claim just didn’t sound right to me.\u00a0 I decided to check into it.<\/p>\n

What I found leads me to believe that someone is trying to create a false meme for political purposes.\u00a0 Once again, the political left is trying to redefine language – this time through blatant falsehood.<\/p>\n

If you search the Internet, you\u2019ll see claims that the term \u201cspecial snowflake\u201d or \u201csnowflake\u201d is of Nazi origin and is a racial slur.\u00a0 The claim is that the Nazis used it to refers to Jews – more specifically, their remains in the form of crematoria ash from Nazi concentration and\/or death camps that \u201cfell to the ground like snow\u201d.\u00a0 There\u2019s even an Urban Dictionary entry to that effect.<\/p>\n

Well, that means it must be true, right?<\/p>\n

In a word:\u00a0 no<\/strong><\/span>.\u00a0 Those claims are absolute bullsh!t.<\/p>\n

There is no evidence that the Nazis ever used the terms \u201csnowflake\u201d or “special snowflake” to refer to Jews or crematoria ash.\u00a0 Those claims are a baldfaced lie.<\/p>\n

The US Holocaust Museum\u2019s Holocaust Encyclopedia does not contain the terms.\u00a0 Their archives do not show the terms used in that manner.\u00a0 Museum officials are unaware of Nazi soldiers routinely using the term \u201csnowflake\u201d or\u00a0\u201cspecial snowflake\u201d with that meaning.<\/p>\n

The same is true of the education team at the Illinois Holocaust Museum.\u00a0 They were also unaware of that use of the term \u201csnowflake\u201d or \u201cspecial snowflake\u201d by Nazis during the Holocaust to refer to crematoria dust or Jews.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t believe me?\u00a0 Well, don\u2019t take my word for it.\u00a0 Check out Snopes \u2013 who actually researched the claim and found it to be BS<\/a><\/em>.\u00a0 Snopes may lean a bit left, but they\u2019re generally extremely good at fact-checking questionable claims like this.\u00a0 And they\u2019re honest about what they find.<\/p>\n

As far as Snopes could find, the sole purported source allegedly “documenting” Nazi origin for the terms is an entry in an Internet site called the \u201cRacial Slur Database\u201d.\u00a0 To put it charitably, the \u201cRacial Slur Database\u201d is unreliable as a source.\u00a0 As Snopes states in their entry I linked, the\u00a0\u201cRacial Slur Database\u201d site freely admits that their entries are \u201centirely from data gleaned off the \u2018net and via submissions from people like you and your parents.\u201d\u00a0 In plain language, that means they just put any and everything they find on the Internet or that someone sends them in their database – NQA, and without fact-checking.<\/p>\n

In reality the sarcastic phrases “special snowflake” and the variant “special little snowflake” probably gained popularity as a variation on the following quote from the 1990s book and movie The Fight Club<\/span>.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou are not special. You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You are the same organic and decaying matter as everyone else.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Couple that with the common knowledge that every snowflake is unique, and the phrases “special snowflake” and \u201cspecial little snowflake\u201d – used sarcastically – practically suggest themselves.\u00a0 Indeed, one commonly accepted definition of the phrase “special little snowflake” is as follows:<\/p>\n

A below average kid who is coddled and rewarded for mediocrity, usually by an overprotective mother, a ‘sensitive’ dad, or the public education system. The term stems from the concept that, like a snowflake, all children are special and unique and thus they should be treasured just the way they are so as to build their self-esteem.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Use of the phrases are so ubiquitous today that they’ve spawned a related term, Special Snowflake Syndrome<\/em>:<\/p>\n

A malady affecting a significant portion of the world’s population wherein the afflicted will demand special treatment, conduct themselves with a ludicrous, unfounded sense of entitlement, and generally make the lives of everyone around them that much more miserable.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

. . .<\/strong><\/p>\n

So how did the term become falsely associated with the Nazis?\u00a0 Dunno for sure, but I’ll hazard a guess.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s what I think happened.\u00a0 One day, some bozo was acting like an immature, conceited, childish twit \u2013 a \u201cspecial little snowflake\u201d, if you will \u2013 carrying on and acting as if they were the center of the universe while demanding special treatment they didn\u2019t rate.\u00a0 When they got called on it, the person calling them out used the term \u201cspecial little snowflake\u201d.<\/p>\n

The jackass in question didn\u2019t like being called out \u2013 and particularly didn\u2019t like the perfectly descriptive term used in calling them out.\u00a0 So they decided to try and \u201cpoison the well\u201d regarding the use of the term by creating the false entry in question in the \u201cRacial Slur Database\u201d.<\/p>\n

What they apparently didn\u2019t count on was the fact that although the Internet makes it easy to spread<\/em> lies, it also makes it easy for someone who wants to fact check bogus claims<\/em>.\u00a0 And there are reputable sources out there that do the latter.<\/p>\n

In other words:\u00a0 someone tried to pull a fast one using the Internet and got caught lying.<\/p>\n

So if you run across someone who tries to tell you that the term \u201csnowflake\u201d or \u201cspecial little snowflake\u201d is \u201cracist\u201d or has a Nazi past, tell them they\u2019re full of it.\u00a0 And then tell them to check Snopes for verification, since they probably won\u2019t believe the truth from you.<\/p>\n

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Author\u2019s Note<\/u>:\u00a0 Definitions above for Special Little Snowflake and Special Snowflake Syndrome are also from the Urban Dictionary.\u00a0 I won\u2019t repeat their thoroughly-debunked-as-bullsh!t definition that falsely associates the term Special Snowflake with Nazism, as it\u2019s been proven bogus and was obviously written by someone on the Left with a political agenda.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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