The House of Lord's Claire Fox explains why she wrote a book about 'Generation Snowflake,' sounding off on how today's youth find so many things offensive.
Claire Fox, a member of the House of Lords, explains that she has enough material to write 10 editions of her book, "I Find That Offensive!"said that she received all the"archetypal" flak one would expect after writing a book blasting cancel culture on college campuses – but much of the criticism did not come from young people.
"When I wrote it, it was a very short, modest contribution - and it was kind of addressed to Generation Snowflake," she said.Her aim, Fox said, was to actually address what was happening in the U.S., and to draw attention to the trends that appeared to making their way across the pond. Those patterns were just starting to present themselves around the time of her first edition of the book. For instance, she noted the attempt to remove a statue of 19th century South African politician Cecil Rhodes at Oriel College, a constituent college of the University of Oxford,"on the basis that she had in the past been associated with slavery," Fox said.
Fox said she pinned the blame on her own peers for having"reared a generation into safetyism and told them that everywhere they looked they were under threat, and that they couldn't and wouldn't be able to cope unless they were protected."Fox received backlash for"I Find That Offensive!" when the book came out, but noted much of the criticism came from people her own age.
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