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We Need Snowflakes: In defence of the sensitive, the angry and the offended. As featured on R4 Woman's Hour
(Hardback)
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Paperback
Published: 16th May 2023
Hardback
Published: 10th May 2022
Paperback
Published: 25th January 2022
Publishing Details
Full Title:
We Need Snowflakes: In defence of the sensitive, the angry and the offended. As featured on R4 Woman's Hour
Contributors:
By (Author) Hannah Jewell
Publisher:
Hodder & Stoughton
Imprint:
Coronet Books
Publication Date:
10th May 2022
UK Publication Date:
27th January 2022
Country:
United Kingdom
Classifications
Readership:
General
Genre:
Fiction/Non-fiction:
Non Fiction
Main Subject:
Dewey:
909.83
Physical Properties
Physical Format:
Hardback
Number of Pages:
320
Dimensions:
Width 156mm, Height 220mm, Spine 28mm
Weight:
480g
Description
'Entertaining... Sane about much of the madness that grips us today' TLS
'An incisive look at the reality of "woke" culture, and who gains from demonising a generation.' GUARDIAN___________________________________________________________________________________Is 'cancel culture' spiralling out of handAre the youth of today oversensitive, mollycoddled and intellectually weakDoes the scourge of political correctness threaten the very fabric of our societyIndignant 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's really benefitting from all the anger being directed towards themIn this timely and subversive book, journalist and author Hannah Jewell investigates the stories behind the headlines and finds that, shockingly, most of them have been blown out of proportion. 'Cancel culture' isn't really a culture at all, many of the people who claim to have been silenced are doing quite well now, thank you very much, and maybe it's ok to think swastikas daubed in faeces in a campus bathroom is something that should be adequately investigated.The truth is that snowflakes understand plenty about the 'real world', which is why they want to see it change. And that is what their detractors are actually scared of.Author Bio
Hannah Jewell is a video journalist at The Washington Post covering pop culture, politics, and more. She formerly worked at BuzzFeed UK, where she was known for her writing about gender and her satire of British and American politics.
