in terms of snowflake, I am copying and pasting my answer to a similar question: Bit of historical context- 21 years ago the novel Fight Club came out, and Palahniuk became a cult icon nearly overnight. read more
Liberals are referred to as snowflakes because the right wants to ascribe their own deeply emotional tie to the beliefs they so desperately want to hold on to to some other group as they clearly do not respect the basis upon which they hold their own beliefs. read more
Because they are trying to hurt somebody’s feelings. That is, after all, the function of insults. read more