We Need Snowflakes
In defence of the sensitive, the angry and the offended. As featured on R4 Woman's Hour
- Format: Innbundet
- Antall sider: 320
- Språk: Engelsk
- Forlag/Utgiver: SD Books
- EAN: 9781473672130
- Utgivelsesår: 2022
- Bidragsyter: Jewell, Hannah
''An incisive look at the reality of "woke" culture, and who gains from demonising a generation.'' GUARDIAN
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Is ''cancel culture'' spiralling out of hand?
Are the youth of today oversensitive, mollycoddled and intellectually weak?
Does the scourge of political correctness threaten the very fabric of our society?
Indignant politicians, columnists and baby boomers certainly think so. The problem, we''re told repeatedly, is that the current generation is full of hypersensitive cowards; ''snowflakes'' who are obsessed with making mountains out of molehills. A safe space here, an unruly protest there, it''s all proof that they don''t know how to handle the real world.
But what if you were to drown out that noise and talk to the snowflakes themselves? What are they actually asking for? How are they going about it? And who'