The NUS Asked Its Student Delegates To Use Jazz Hands Instead Of Clapping
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The National Union of Students was the subject of ridicule on Tuesday after telling its delegates to use jazz hands instead of clapping in order to avoid triggering anxiety.
A spokesperson for the NUS justified the decision saying: "The request was made by some delegates attending the conference. We strive to make NUS events accessible and enjoyable for all, so each request is considered."
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Nona Buckley-Irvine, general secretary at the London School of Economics Students' Union, 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.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/03/25/nus-student-delegates-use-jazz-hands-not-clapping-_n_6937006.html?utm_hp_ref=uk
It's a shame the rolling eyes smiley's gone. It summed upped my reaction.
Buckley-Irvine sounds like a next-gen Labour politician.
Buckley-Irvine has been the media face of some of LSESU’s most high-profile acts of censorship, from disbanding the rugby club for distributing jokey-sexist leaflets in October to successfully campaigning for the Sun and ‘Blurred Lines’ to be banned on campus.
‘There has been a consistent aggression against free speech and students’ liberty in general’, Wong tells me. ‘Nona has been at the forefront of a lot of it.’
http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/the-beaver-black-out-lsesu-has-sunk-to-a-new-low/16746
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Clapping to show appreciation can cause anxiety?
Laughing stock.
Oh come ON. This is years and years old. I think it arose out of Buddhist traditions, and silent ways of offering applause have been common at meetings for at least 30 years.
I think people deride it because it has a somewhat 'alternative' reputation; it was universal, for example, during the climate camp protests, the St Pauls occupation etc. But no one seems to object to the protocol that at golf tournaments the applause must be muted so as not to disturb the competitors. Obviously something that is horrible from a young woman with a piercing is quite all right if it involves a middle aged man in loud socks.
Speech for: LGBT community - ok that's admirable
Speech against: Free - yea these people are mad.
Motion 512: Dear white gay men: Stop appropriating Black Women.
This is the world we live in people.
just for you & one night only ...........http://members.optusnet.com.au/isaksen/bigroll.GIF
Here it is in 2011 at Occupy London: http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/1499688?sid=21106242101133&uid=70&uid=2&uid=4&uid=3738032&uid=2129
Here is the Climate Camp protocol for meetings: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=X0gegOuX_usC&pg=PT53&lpg=PT53&dq=climate+camp+silent+clapping&source=bl&ots=_fQYuGiw-f&sig=TfAuKaxNo9oQsxGotr9J67PeYSY&hl=en&sa=X&ei=9ggTVeftDoK07AbKqICoDA&ved=0CDAQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=climate%20camp%20silent%20clapping&f=false
Here is an article describing the use of it among autistic people (presumably, those likely to be made 'anxious' by loud clapping) and the deaf community: http://linguistics.stackexchange.com/questions/9499/what-is-the-origin-of-the-silent-visual-applause-sign
It's not something the NUS women's group have just pulled out of a hat. Probably most politically aware students have been to meetings over the last 25 years that encourage it.
Are you seriously trying to defend this BS?
If someone is honestly "triggered" by clapping they need psychiatric help
Surely this isn't real?
Here is the tweet from the NUS woman's campaign twitter account. "Some delegates are requesting that we move to jazz hands rather than clapping, as it's triggering anxiety. Please be mindful!"
Triggering anxiety...... clapping.
Also worth a wry chuckle from NUSwomen. "Whooping is fun for some, but can be super inaccessible for others, so please try not to whoop! Jazz hands work just as well."
So don't clap in case it 'triggers' someone and whooping is "super inaccessible" so just get those jazz hands going.
Why would deaf people be "triggered" by clapping, or any noise for that matter?
And a lot of women have been laughing at these stupid feminists too.