The snowflake generation isn’t an actual generation

The term “Snowflake Generation” encapsulates a convenient insult targeted at a particular group in any given moment, not a technical generation. The technical generations that contain snowflakes are millennials, born from 1986 to 1996 and Generation Z, born from 1997 to 2012.^[1] It would be foolish to condemn all individuals born in an almost forty-year period as snowflakes. That contains the connotation that all of these people born in this span are overly sensitive liberals, when that simply isn’t the case.^[2] Furthermore, the insult contains the connotation that all of their political affiliations are the same as well. While the newer generations are inarguably more liberal and progressive than older ones, according to data, it isn’t a blanketed existence. 37% of the millennial electorate worked to elect Donald Trump in 2016.^[3] This is in direct opposition with the idea that millennials and Generation Z are one body and one voice. An apt comparison would be fears regarding women’s suffrage in the United States back in 1919 and 1920. There were concerns that women would vote as one political body, overwhelming the men of the country.^[4] However, that is incredibly insensible, as is the interpretation that the snowflakes are one political body as well. Millennials and Generation Z are a diverse group that possess an array of views and lived experiences. To cast away their true names in favor of the derogatory snowflake is nothing but a doltish error.