In a twist reminiscent of his own work, Palahniuk posted on his website that the scheme has left him almost close to broke.Īccountant Darin Webb reportedly fed him lies claiming that Palahniuk’s money hadn’t flowed in due to piracy or publishers being slow to pay royalties. But if Palahniuk wants to believe in alternative facts, he can keep feeling unique and beautiful and take credit for inventing the term.Turns out, Marla Singer isn’t the only one playing dirty.Ĭhuck Palahniuk, author of Fight Club recently became the victim of an embezzlement plot by an accountant from his literary agency. The Snowflakes hoped slavery would survive the country's civil war, and were contrasted with two other groups.Įven though I don't doubt many of the alt-right identified with Fight Club's sad impotent men destroying society to feel powerful, the 'snowflake' insult did not begin with Palahniuk. In Missouri in the early 1860s, a 'Snowflake' was a person who was opposed to the abolition of slavery-the implication of the name being that such people valued white people over black people. But before either of those it was used for a time with a very particular political meaning.

It was also used as a slang term for cocaine. In the 1970s snowflake was a disparaging term for a white man or for a black man who was seen as acting white. It's the mantra of Project Mayhem, the nihilist patriarchal proto-fascist group that's actually pretty similar to the alt-right.īut, even though Palahniuk claims to have invented it (and agrees with the metaphor's usage to describe liberals), 'Snowflake' as an insult dates much further back, as Merriam-Webster pointed out. You are the same decaying organic matter as everyone, and we are all part of the same compost pile,' Palahniuk wrote in the book that was later turned into a popular Brad Pitt film.

'You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake.

Last week, Palahniuk told the Evening Standard that the term 'snowflake' was first used as an insult in his 1996 novel Fight Club. While it probably made Chuck Palahniuk feel unique and special to believe that he invented one of the alt-right's favorite insults, it turns out he was wrong.

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