The only person who can definitively say how the term 'snowflake' was intended is @@ianwilkins.
@@NJCubScouter since I haven't been a part of this forum long enough to know that the term has been used "almost always in THAT way, for many years" I have no reason to interpret it as such.
I can only go on what I know from personal experience, which in this case is zilch. Since I've never called or heard anyone call another person a 'snowflake' I don't think of the term in the negative. And no, I don't live in a desert where they're never seen. Thus my comment earlier about how I interpreted it's usage.
It's always interesting how we can see a different meaning behind a simple word.
Unless @@ianwilkins tells me differently, my interpretation is correct. For me.
Snowflakes are beautiful, unique, and one-of-a-kind. Like our Scouts.