The other day, I was sitting with my group of friends and sharing how twitter has become so negative and toxic nowadays with all the news content that it has taken a toll on my mental health, when a friend of mine playfully mocked me by saying “mujhe pata thha tu toh snowflake hai” (I knew that you were a snowflake). For those of you who don’t know what the term “snowflake” means, the English dictionary defines it as a derogatory term to describe an easily offended person. Members of the so-called “snowflake generation” are typecast as emotionally weak and lacking resilience and use of the term has been uniformly negative. There’s also an association with words such as “sensitive”, “triggered”, “easily offended” and “thin-skinned” In calling someone a snowflake, you are not just shutting down their opinion, but telling them off for being offended and shutting a person down is anything but freedom. And if you, the snowflake, are offended, then you are simply proving th...