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Snowflake is such a weird insult as it seems to imply it's best to just be like everyone else (lemm.ee)
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[–] scarabic 3 points 3 months ago

The snowflake metaphor really gives us everything we need. Yes each one has a different crystalline pattern but ALL of them will melt at the same temperature. Thinking your uniqueness extends to everything and frees you from all the rules is the problem. Of course, conservatives love rules too much and don’t even recognize when they are setting up rules for how your crystalline pattern is “supposed to be.”