'Fight Club' Writer Takes Credit for "Snowflake" Term

[SlyPokerDog]

Chuck Palahniuk thinks Trump supporters were inspired by his line: "You are not special. You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake."

Fight Club writer Chuck Palahniuk says he coined the term "snowflake" long before Trump supporters began using it.

Fox News contributors and Donald Trump counselor Kellyanne Conway have been using the term referring to Trump protesters, but the author says the phrase started with him.

“It does come from Fight Club,” he told the Evening Standard. “There is a line, ‘You are not special. You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake.’”

Palahniuk says that the term "snowflake" is even more accurate today than it was when the film Fight Club was released in 1999.

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[SlyPokerDog]

:MARIS61:

 

[bodyman5000 and 1]

I gotta see if I have that on bluray, loved that movie.

 

[MARIS61]

Completely different meaning that Chuck, a snowflake himself, doesn't get because he's a snowflake.

And now he's butthurt so...snowflake.

 

[JfizzleBlazer]

One of my favorite authors.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Completely different meaning that Chuck, a snowflake himself, doesn't get because he's a snowflake.

And now he's butthurt so...snowflake.

Did you read the article?

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Completely different meaning that Chuck, a snowflake himself, doesn't get because he's a snowflake.

And now he's butthurt so...snowflake.

Palahniuk says that the term "snowflake" is even more accurate today than it was when the film Fight Club was released in 1999. “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.”

 

[magnifier661]

I like turtles

 

[MARIS61]

Did you read the article?

Yes.

 

[MARIS61]

Yes. And I saw the movie.

 

[3RA1N1AC]

I thought this immediately upon hearing it the first time. Winning.

 

[theprunetang]

One of my favorite authors and a great guy. I have some stories I may share in the future.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

One of my favorite authors and a great guy. I have some stories I may share in the future.

Please!

 

[SlyPokerDog]

No, 'Snowflake' as a Slang Term Did Not Begin with 'Fight Club'

The lost history of 'snowflake'


In Missouri in the early 1860s, a 'snowflake' was a person who was opposed to the abolition of slavery—the implication of the name being that such people valued white people over black people. This use seems not to have endured.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/the-less-lovely-side-of-snowflake

 

[Denny Crane]

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Snowflake