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Propaganda Debunking

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srcameron

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Fri Feb 24, 2017, 11:57 PM Feb 2017

Another Term to Combat: Snowflakes [View all]

One way to do this is to come up with an alternative term to combat those who use it to degrade us.
I am currently thinking of a term that can be used toward reactionary provocateurs who throw out verbal firebombs to show how much of a conservative "rebel" they think they are. These are the kind of people who think they are standing up for free speech and fighting the so-called culture war, all while ingratiating their own egos. I distinctly remember one from when I was in college who kept on saying things like "Why don't they stop blowing up things?" in response to the professor showing a documentary about how Muslim people are treated by the media. When he made a remark about all Native American Indians supposedly living off the government, the professor remarked that this was a huge generalization. I am sure that after class, he immediately went to a blog to complain about unfairly he was being treated by "liberal academia". What cracked me up was that after one remark he made, I turned around and saw him looking eagerly to see what the classes reaction was. Some kind of term needs to be created for people like this. It's a long time coming.

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I'm a snowflake? Yeah...never forget..."Winter is coming". n/t CincyDem Feb 2017 #1
Many snowflakes make a snowball. No Vested Interest Feb 2017 #2
Mole Rat srcameron Feb 2017 #3
Better yet... srcameron Feb 2017 #4
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