Jazz Hands

It wasn't a ban, but "a request". If there was anyone clapping I'd imagine that they would have been lambasted though. The hysterical nature and ideological "sensibilities" that linger around academia today would have certainly played a part in making "a request", an enforcement.

I totally understand people not liking clapping, I have pretty bad sensory difficulties. I wouldn't expect "a request" for it to be stopped though.

Using the "critical theory" that this stems from, and the solipsistic, post-modernistic ideals that constitute the direction this came from, it's easy to deconstruct it. What if there was someone there who had a pathological need for applause? What about people who were hypo-sensitive to sound and found it a soothing stim? What about the feelings of someone who came from a culture where applause is a common custom? Do they not have rights? Seriously, it's a viable, and possible thing. I know a girl who's stim is jumping up and down, and clapping.

Trust me I have serious sensory issues, but I don't agree with this. This is inclusivity being used as a guise for exclusivity, and basically using people with issues as currency, as pawns to take the high ground for the sake of "critical theory". I would rather endure the discomfort, than be used by a psuedointellectual, faux proletariat for their means.

Don't worry Brother.  They'll be first up against the wall when the revolution comes ;-).

Windscale said:

Don't worry Brother.  They'll be first up against the wall when the revolution comes ;-).

They probably would be if things ever got to that point. I'm not really in the mindset that anyone needs to be against the wall. Sad that people would feel that their own personal ideals would be so paramount.

Plastic said:

And that's how you enforce the social engineering - anyone acting outside the 'request' (clapping) are turned upon by the very vocal minority and probably slaughtered across social media as being 'insensitive to minorities'.

Classic "Art Of War" tactics - kill one to frighten a thousand.

You seem to have read and understand what the tactics being used are.

I'm totally against children, and young people being forced to adhere to any forms of enforced ideology. Hitler had the BDM, and the DJV which was the deplorable enforcement of political ideals upon children, and young adults. The Frankfurt ideals are the same thing, but people seem OK with it. Whether Marxist or Facist, it's wrong.

The shame in all of this is that through all of the fringe far-left stuff being put into the media, real issues people are having are being diminished by areas of the press that now have terms such as "snowflake", and "SJW" to throw at genuine issues. I'm pretty liberal myself, but I don't think that the political climate at the moment is beneficial to the majority who are seemingly being caught inbetween two increasingly disparate arenas of discourse. It's lazy in my opinion, the middle ground is where ideas should be shared and hashed out. Partisanship usually means that there is a subscription to the complete agenda and ideals of the sides chosen. The civility has been taken out of a lot of areas of areas where it would be beneficial.

Windscale said:

There's probably someone somewhere who will dislike pretty much everything.  So if you take this sort of thing to its logical conclusion...

The "proletariat" would have to act, and think the same if critical theory fullfilled it's ideals. Except the people dictating the standards. That is the literal goal of it. It doesn't sound good to me.

And some naive youngsters are left with a massive debt, gaining degrees in subjects which are part of the system, plus part a false economy, where the only option left is to spread the "information" that they have gained, which increases the saturation of people spreading critical theory.

Cloudy Mountains said:

Hitler had the BDM, and the DJV which was the deplorable enforcement of political ideals upon children, and young adults.

And that is why children are kept in 'school' until 21 these days - 16 years of programming.

Cloudy Mountains said:

Hitler had the BDM, and the DJV which was the deplorable enforcement of political ideals upon children, and young adults.

And that is why children are kept in 'school' until 21 these days - 16 years of programming.

And some naive youngsters are left with a massive debt, gaining degrees in subjects which are part of the system, plus part a false economy, where the only option left is to spread the "information" that they have gained, which increases the saturation of people spreading critical theory.