Oxford University bans clapping to "stop triggering anxiety" - [PEACE]

[jim bell]

 On Sunday, October 27, 2019, 10:07:24 AM PDT, Peter Fairbrother <peter at tsto.co.uk> wrote:
 
 >Ho hum.  Or perhaps Hokum.

>No, Oxford University didn't ban clapping. Or anything else.

>If you read your own quote, the student union (not the University 
authorities) voted to "encourage the use of silent clapping". At student 
union events only, not at University meetings, lectures etc.

>That's it. They didn't ban non-silent clapping (which they couldn't have 
done anyway).

>I agree it is a little nutso, but let's not blame a 
somehow-authoritarian "University" for something some bored 
wanna-be-radical students set up for the first week of the year (when 
lots of the starry-eyed brand new students go to their first and only SU 
meeting and vote for almost anything to show solidarity with their new 
colleagues).


Maybe these kids need to be reminded that being convinced to blindly follow a leader to solve a non-existent problem, and inventing "enemies" in the process, and eventually victimizing innocent people is a long-established practice of Communism, Socialism, National Socialism, and other Totalitarian and Authoritarian regimes.  
Clapping is not a problem.  (Find any reference between, say, 1900 and 2010 that says clapping is a problem.)Those who clap are not enemies.And eventually punishing people who clap will follow.  
        Jim Bell  
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