Student Union Wants to Ban Clapping and Cheering Because it Excludes Deaf People

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[GazzaQueen]

Wrong, blind people can't smell pizza

Deaf people grunt like hogs. Where is your compassion.

 

[Airstrip One]

If I couldn't smell pizza, that would be it for me.

 

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Britain’s largest national student union has told attendees of its annual conference they would face “consequences” for cheering and clapping because these forms of expression exclude deaf people.

Instead of clapping, the students were advised to use “jazz hands” – a gesture when people wave their hands in the air – as it’s believed to be more inclusive to people with hearing problems.

https://heatst.com/culture-wars/stu...and-cheering-because-it-excludes-deaf-people/

It takes a special type of bigot to hate on disabled people. I'm glad this guy and his alter ego are gone.

They've got to be kidding

Like I said. A special kind of bigot.

 

[cancel2 2022]

What makes you think that a British student union is left leaning in their politics?
Even if they were, what does that have to do with me?

Left leaning, are you effing serious? The NUS is practically bent over double.

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[Granule]

Granny gets excited over the stupidest shit...

Whatever, evince.

 

[Micawber]

These types of comedy / satire threads usually intended to demonstrate absurdity of liberal beliefs have the opposite effect because they provide an opportunity to discuss important differences between the good Democrat party and the old cranky Republican party of white rich jerks who only care about themselves and never others.

 

[Micawber]

hear, hear!

 

[cancel2 2022]

These types of comedy / satire threads usually intended to demonstrate absurdity of liberal beliefs have the opposite effect because they provide an opportunity to discuss important differences between the good Democrat party and the old cranky Republican party of white rich jerks who only care about themselves and never others.

Why is it comedic, tragic and woeful is nearer the mark? That is exactly what happened at the NUS Women's Conference. It seems that PC lunacy is not just confined to US coastal universities anymore.

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Women at a national student event have been asked to use jazz hands instead of clapping.

The request came during the National Union of Students (NUS) Women's Conference in Solihull, West Midlands.

The NUS Women's Campaign tweeted: "Some delegates are requesting that we move to jazz hands rather than clapping, as it's triggering anxiety. Please be mindful!"

Delegates have told Newsbeat "it's a nice way to show solidarity".

Nona Buckley-Irvine is general secretary at the London School of Economics Students' Union (LSE SU).

She told Newsbeat: "Jazz hands are used throughout NUS in place of clapping as a way to show appreciation of someone's point without interrupting or causing disturbance, as it can create anxiety.

"I'm relatively new to this and it did feel odd at first, but once you've used jazz hands a couple of times it becomes a genuinely nice way to show solidarity with a point and it does add to creating a more inclusive atmosphere."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/32032291/students-swap-clapping-for-jazz-hands-at-nus-event

 

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Britain’s largest national student union has told attendees of its annual conference they would face “consequences” for cheering and clapping because these forms of expression exclude deaf people.

PC is insane.