Oxford University Bans Clapping at Student Union Events to "Stop Triggering Anxiety"
Posted by Pecuniology 5 years, 1 month ago to Education
Put your hands together and let's have a big round of applause for the students at the Oxford University, who are working to "replace clapping" because it could "trigger anxiety."
A young millennial runs to Buddha and demands that his peanut allergy force all to bend to his will. Buddha agrees with one condition. The millennial must find at least one person who has no allergies, no aches, no pains and no mental turmoil to witness the transfer of power.
....but, but...said the millenial....
...but, indeed...said Buddha.
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Category- wokists, snowflakes, progressives
Hand clapping gives them anxiety and they scurry away as best they can with heads down and ears covered.
Clapping emits no carbon pollution and is renewable.
Their indoctrination began in nursery school and continued unabated through undergraduate and graduate school. By the time that they are finished with school, they are expected to function in the real world as independent adults, even though they are incompetent to distinguish floating abstractions, stolen concepts, and anti-concepts from high-level concepts that are gounded on objective reality; and they cannot rank primary values and secondary values.
And, like feral animals that have been injured, they attack those who try to help them. Singly, they are pitiable; en masse they are a violent, deadly nuisance.
Sadly, the lunatics have taken over the asylum, and anyone who complains, they declare to be insane.
Is this crazy? You bet it is. Get used to it. Oh...and while you're at it, don't bring a peanut onto an elementary school campus. It could actually kill some of the students. Mull that over...
These are real problems. Of course, there is a facet of the young population and their keepers who just want to control others by claiming victim status. They aren't helping matters...
Now don’t you feel much better and even more morally superior?
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Terrorist attacks, inner city gunfights, and riots are loud. Someone needs to regulate those things.
And, although this is not much of an issue most of the time in North America or Western Europe, military invasions can be very distracting. Someone needs to make military personnel keep it down, so that the sound-sensitive are not agitated.
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ooh! I almost forgot: drone strikes, bombs, and asteroid impacts...
That’s if that would make a more peaceful world.
Add quiet earthquakes, mudslides, and wildfires to my list.
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As for lethal peanut allergies, what percentage of the population does this represent? Even more important, how much of this is caused by parents' not exposing their children to peanuts at an early age and by parents' dousing their young children in buckets of hand sanitizer, rather than letting them stress their developing immune systems by playing in dirt and chewing on shoes? If the parents and the school teachers are to blame, then pin the cost of mitigation on them, and not on the other kids who just want to be left in peace to enjoy their peanut butter & jelly sandwiches for lunch.
As for loud alarms, for one thing they don't need to be that loud to get our attention, so that is just a matter of bad design that any competent technician can fix; and if the loudness is set by statute, regulation, or administrative rule, then we should petition for legal change. For those who are sensitive to loud noises, as I was as a child, covering one's ears with one's hands is always an option. If that is not enough, the put some baggies of those little squishy ear plugs into your child's book bag, and teach him how to pinch them down and insert them safely. Coddling those who panic during fire drills very well could mean their unnecessary deaths in the event of a real fire.
It is fascinating how offended those who maintain external loci of control become, when one suggests that they maintain internal loci of control. They expect the strong to sacrifice themselves to the weak, and falsely accuse the strong who refuse to sacrifice themselves of sacrificing the weak to the strong, when the strong don't want to sacrifice anyone to anyone else.
Me a little dino thought that weirdness looked kinda cool on my parents' black and white TV during the Fifties.
On the other hand, me dino thought The Addams Family cool during the Sixties.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPMKl...
Do not clap for that man behind the curtain!!!!
You sure as hell don't want to righteously yell, "Hey, who's that man behind that curtain?!" That's a good way of receiving an IRS audit.
I wonder if among young people a reaction to clapping is not as rare as I think. If not, I wonder why. I have a suspicion that availability of handheld devices could play a role because they decrease human interaction and delay kids going out into their neighborhood on their own. They've also made it practical for helicopter parents to insist their kids spend their lives under adult supervision. Once they are free of supervision, they are prone to anxieties caused by everyday things like applause. This is just a guess on my part. Hopefully someone is researching it. In any case, I see the last 20 years as an unintentional global experiment to see what would happen if a generation of people had handheld video available all the time. It may have little effect, but we should know if it's causing ill effects like applause anxiety.
In my dayyy... we didn't hold up our mobile phones at rock concerts; we held up lit cigarette lighters!
As Bradley Campbell points out, we are not dealing with fragile snowflakes here; we are dealing with an anti-rational cult:
https://quillette.com/2018/11/14/the-...