Originally Posted by Jack_ (Post 9225478)

Well for starters, Arwa is a Mrs not a Mr - so one can only assume you didn't bother to check the source and dare I say even read the column.

Secondly, what is there to be unbiased or biased about? What exactly is this 'subject' you speak of? This is an opinion piece about the alleged hypocrisy of the terms 'snowflake', 'safe space' and 'PC' levelled at those on the left by some sections of the right. It isn't a news story, there is no facts or 'fake news'. It's a column.

Finally, much like many of the other Comment is Free columnists she does not work solely for The Guardian and so this 'master' nonsense you've invented seems utterly bizarre and completely misplaced. The next time Katie Hopkins or Piers Morgan write a column for The Sun or the Mail respectively, can I expect to see you deriding them for bowing to their right wing masters and writing what their overlords want them to? I'm guessing not.

Populist correctness gone mad, it seems.

Originally Posted by Brillopad (Post 9225640)

Takes one to know one perhaps.

Originally Posted by Jack_ (Post 9225656)

Ah, you can always tell when someone's run out of a counter argument when they respond to a lengthy post with a one sentence reply. Especially if said sentence is as feeble and juvenile as 'takes one to know one'.

Glad to know I was right.

Originally Posted by Marsh. (Post 9225638)

Who started this "snowflakes" sh*t? It's annoying as ****.

Originally Posted by Brillopad (Post 9226088)

Sometimes brief is more appropriate. Lengthy in itself is not an indication of quality but if it makes you feel better to think your post was 'too challenging'' go ahead.

Seriously Jack I have no problem with your post I just feel that your approval of the comments expressed in the column were solely based on it's obvious left-wing bias which is in keeping with your own views. It was as you say an opinion-based column not a statement of fact.

Originally Posted by Jack_ (Post 9226129)

'I know you are but what am I',

Originally Posted by Northern Monkey (Post 9226124)

I think it's just an internet thing from Tumblr.A site i've never been to.From what i've read it was used to describe people who think they deserve a medal for saying they're different.Like calling themselves 'gender fluid' etc to try and look edgy.It's another ridiculous term that should never have made into real life speech like 'check your privilege'.I think these things mainly start making it into the actual conversations in American universities and then get spread back onto places like Youtube and the cycle perpetuates.
I agree it's annoying as ****.
Whenever i hear it or read it i always assume it's being used ironically.I really very much doubt that anyone over the age of twenty uses it in real life.

Originally Posted by Northern Monkey (Post 9226134)

I can understand why the author wrote this tbf.It's a reactionary piece.A kind of fighting back type thing.You can tell she spends a fair amount of time on the internet by her use of the word 'snowflake'.Nobody(or barely anybody) uses that term off the internet.
I can see why the left are so angry atm.They all get tarred with the same brush as the far left,The real looney left.Not every and infact most left leaning people are like that at all.Most are sensible and moderate in their opinions just as most on the right.
It's abit like people on the right being branded as far right and racist etc when that is a very small minority.People on both sides are being lumped in with the extreme ends of those sides.
It has kind of got out of hand.
It's like tit for tat from both sides.I think the whole left/right thing is outdated now anyway.Most people i think are somewhere in the middle.

Originally Posted by Brillopad (Post 9225640)

Takes one to know one perhaps.

Originally Posted by Dezzy (Post 9226244)

Back to the playground tactics, I see.

Originally Posted by Livia (Post 9225025)

I am. Totally and utterly sick of it. It's just got too nasty here and it's been allowed to continue... it was fun, but now it's just spiteful and ridiculous.

Originally Posted by Kizzy (Post 9226672)

It hasn't gotten nasty, what has happened is the people using it to cause offence are offended it has been adopted by those it was intended to offend...It was fun before then, but now it's just being ridiculed as the nonsense term it is it's spiteful and ridiculous.

Or is it simply that it was funny when the term was levied right to left but now it goes left to right it's spiteful and ridiculous? which is a mahoosive double standard.