Citations:snowflake

Noun: "(slang, derogatory) someone hypersensitive to insult or offense"

 * 2016, Felipe Fuentes, "University must address repercussions of presidential election", The Daily Reveille (Louisiana State University), 15 November 2016, page 5:
 * I, as a Chilean refugee, self-identify as a progressive and as a Hispanic (gender TBD), and I was one of these "delicate snowflakes" whose fragile heart was shattered by Trump's use of the democratic process to secure his authoritarian rise to power.
 * 2017, Dylan Kyle, quoted in "Campus Voices", The Mugdown (Texas A&M University), August 2017, page 15:
 * When have words ever hurt anyone? The triggered snowflakes at this liberal university are trying to literally murder our freedom of speech.
 * 2017, Ben Brill, "What's wrong with saying 'Happy holidays' this December", High Tide (Redondo Union High School), 20 October 2017, page 7:
 * Fox News pundits claim to be upset because companies are choosing to embrace the "holidays" rather than "Christmas" to avoid offending any liberal snowflakes.
 * 2017, Max Van Dyke, "Hypocrisy in free speech", The University Daily Kansan (University of Kansas), 30 October 2017, page 4:
 * With the former, they send death threats or lambast them as unpatriotic; whereas, when the latter comes to speak, they defend him and attack the "leftist snowflakes" for their opposition.
 * 2018, Bruce Curtis, "County Perspective", Paso Robles Magazine, April 2018, page 24:
 * We all heard recently about a national magazine giving California an "F" in quality of life, largely based on our toxic social climate, but the real issue behind the golden state's emigrant stampede isn't a bumper crop of triggered snowflakes, it is the high cost of living, especially rent, which has gone up more than 54 person just in the past five years.
 * 2019, Anne Marie Yurik, "Gillette Commercial Deserves Attention, Thought", The Pitt News (The University of Pittsburgh), 28 January 2019, page 4:
 * Commenters quickly asserted that the ad had to be made by liberal snowflakes, feminists or leftists.
 * 2020, Erin McLaughlin, "Free speech cowed at GMU", The Collegian (Grove City College), 31 January 2020, page 8:
 * Within a few minutes of stepping foot on the school grounds, a triggered snowflake called the police. Multiple officers accosted Kevin McMahon, a YAF staffer, and threatened to arrest him for exercising his free speech rights since he was outside the designated "free speech area."