[Brillopad]

Originally Posted by Jack_

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.

Takes one to know one perhaps.

[Jack_]

Originally Posted by Brillopad

Takes one to know one perhaps.

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.

[Tom4784]

Originally Posted by Brillopad

Takes one to know one perhaps.

Back to the playground tactics, I see.

[Jamie89]

It's an excellent article. I think generally that there's too much 'us and them' in politics and I suppose articles like this might perpetuate that, but then again it's just a reaction really to so many things that have happened in politics recently, and I do think it's correct in what it's saying and the hypocrisies it's highlighting. Specifically the reaction many people had after Brexit in trying to shut down people who opposed it, which I agree goes completely against freedom of speech and democracy. So it's good to see things like that get highlighted.

[Marsh.]

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

[Northern Monkey]

Originally Posted by Marsh.

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

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.

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Northern Monkey

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.

The very first time I heard it used actually was by katie Hopkins...of course that would be one she would latch onto

[Scarlett.]

Also, regarding the whole 'political correctness' bull****

[Northern Monkey]

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.

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Northern Monkey

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.

Yes I totally agree. I think people who lean slightly either way feel like they have to back everything left or right atm for some strange reason though