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Liberals and conservatives are currently duking it out on Twitter in a battle for Most Sensitive. 

The #HowToSpotASnowflake hashtag began surfacing on Twitter earlier this week as traditional conservatives and Trump supporters tried to insult liberals and everyday protesters who always seem to find a new thing to resist against. As usual on Twitter, the liberals took the hashtag and flipped back on the conservatives with their own insults mocking their sensitive behavior. Their disagreements were over a range of topics including the Dear White People trailer to retail stores dumping Ivanka Trump’s clothing line.

The term “snowflake” has had various iterations spanning generations. Back in the 1860s, it was used to describe a person who was opposed to abolishing slavery, or simply thought that White people were more valuable than Black people, according to Merrian-Webster. In the 70s it was used to describe a Black person who was “acting white.” Then in the 2000s, thanks to the movie Fight Club, it was used to disparage anyone who thought they were special or wasn’t willing to fight to the death for what they believed in.

Fast-forward to right now, the term seems to encompass a little bit of all of those things.

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