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Some Folks Aren’t Just Snowflakes — They’re Full-Scale Blizzards

And the most fragile are always the ones who accuse others of being too sensitive

Tim Wise
7 min readOct 27, 2021
Angry white guy taking his toys and going home. Image: Altrendo Images, Shutterstock, standard license, purchased by author

Conservatives are a nearly perfect case study in psychological projection.

They accuse others of not valuing marriage and the family, but then it’s “born-again” Christians and evangelicals who have some of the highest rates of divorce in the U.S. — higher than the rates for atheists.

They accuse others of voter fraud but then damned near every case where someone actually voted twiceon behalf of their incapacitated or dead family member (even one they’re suspected of killing themselves) — turns out to be a Trump supporter.

They accuse others of not respecting law enforcement and then violently assault police on January 6, all while flying Thin Blue Line flags meant to signal one’s love of the cops.

And most consistently of all, they accuse liberals of being snowflakes even while they demonstrate their fragility at school board meetings, enraged by mask mandates, vaccine requirements to protect public health, or having their kids learn about racism in America.

Brittleness, thy name is MAGA-nation.

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Tim Wise
Tim Wise

Written by Tim Wise

Senior Fellow, African American Policy Forum, critical race theorist, and author of 9 books on racism and racial inequity in the U.S.

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