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

[Zenaan Harkness]

On Sun, Oct 27, 2019 at 11:32:16PM +0000, jim bell wrote:
>  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.  

Indeed. Fabled Fabian gradualism at its finest fabulous frenetic
functional fireworks flaunting.

The OU snowflake virtue signallers already put the word "mandate" in
their words. Nope, no fascism here, you WILL comply!