Clapping banned at Oxford University to stop people being triggered

Students at the University of Oxford have voted to ‘replace clapping’ with a silent wave because it ‘could trigger anxiety’. They are instead being told to use ‘jazz hands’, where they wave their hands in the air. The motion to ‘mandate the encouragement of silent clapping’ was successfully passed by the university’s student union officers, following their first meeting of the year on Tuesday. It will come apply at student union events, and if successful, rolled out to other societies and events. Oxford students had argued that alternatives to clapping already existed in some organisations and institutions and that they should follow suit. It comes after the University of Manchester passed a similar motion in September last year.


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"Banned"??????

This is not a good phschological method to help people overcome anxiety issues
Again Universities leading the way in stupidity

Wasn't this mentioned a couple of years ago, and voted down ?

nicko wrote:Wasn't this mentioned a couple of years ago, and voted down ?

At Manchester Uni mate

It will look like a Pentecostal church service.

You can't keep taking every kind of 'triggers' out of public life its absurd. If someone goes to an event where someone speaks and the audience agrees with what is being said you know they'll clap for goodness sake, if you are aware you are ready otherwise if you are so bad that something like clapping will trigger Post traumatic stress you aren't ready to be there.

Vintage wrote:You can't keep taking every kind of 'triggers' out of public life its absurd. If someone goes to an event where someone speaks and the audience agrees with what is being said you know they'll clap for goodness sake, if you are aware you are ready otherwise if you are so bad that something like clapping will trigger Post traumatic stress you aren't ready to be there.

100% agree Vintage and its not how to treat and help people with mental health conditions. In fact such methods will only ensure the problems will manifest even worse. 

https://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/books/jonathan-haidt-the-coddling-of-the-american-mind-a4261081.html

How many students there ?

Thirty thousand, forty thousand, even more ?

How many take part in student union activities ?  A few hundred ?

How many voted for the motion ?  A couple of dozen ?

How many will support the motion if&when it came to a more general vote (compared to a handful of student union 'officers' who initially voted for it..) ?


And more important  --  how many from the wider student body would actually follow such a silly piece of "tail wagging the dog" bullshit posturing if it ever became some imaginary "rule" for the union to try and enforce at future student activities ???


A lot of the time these days, these nonsensical suggestions are being reported on as if the were already a fait accompli for those extremist airheads peddling them..

^^^ Yes. Yes.

People act like everyone of this age group thinks exactly the same and agrees with this decision.

Why do they think that? Because they want to. They're the type of people who need someone to mock and feel superior to.

People with one Hand have a case for discrimination !

When I was on the amateur stage it was the absence of clapping that "triggered" me.

Ben Reilly wrote:^^^ Yes. Yes.

People act like everyone of this age group thinks exactly the same and agrees with this decision.

Why do they think that? Because they want to. They're the type of people who need someone to mock and feel superior to.

It's not that people believe everyone of this ave group feels this way. The problem is that stupid ideas like this even get considered in any age group.

The Democratic Socialists of America did something similar at one of their meetings and they have a wide variety of ages. It's not really the age that's the problem. There's a fucked up political mindset behind this nonsense.

Maddog wrote:The Democratic Socialists of America did something similar at one of their meetings and they have a wide  variety of ages.  It's not really the age that's the problem.  There's a fucked up political mindset behind this nonsense.  

And also, the occasional hobgoblin or rogue pixie in attendance.

I lov Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. She's got more balls than any pasty-faced Republican in the country.