Snowflake Report

Good grief, why bother to go if clapping is going to intimidate you?

Snowflake students at Oxford University are the latest to demand that clapping should be banned because applause noise can trigger anxiety and want ‘jazz hands’ to be used instead.
The idea for a British sign language alternative for clapping involving the waving of hands was put forward at the student union’s first meeting of the year on Tuesday.
Sabbatical Officers Roisin McCallion, Vice President for Welfare and Equal Opportunity and Ebie Edwards Cole, Chair for Oxford SU Disabilities Campaign, successfully passed the motion to mandate the encouragement of silent clapping.

My suggestion is that for “clapping”, substitute “slapping”, but no doubt some fainting fairy is going to have a problem with that too.  And if the noise of clapping triggers that much anxiety in them, I wonder how they’d react to gunshots.

And note the caption for a couple of the pics:

Sabbatical Officers Roisin McCallion (left), Vice President for Welfare and Equal Opportunity and Ebie Edwards Cole (right), Chair for Oxford SU Disabilities Campaign, successfully passed the motion to mandate the encouragement of silent clapping

Yep, that’s what education is all about.  “Sabbatical Officer and VP Welfare and Equal Opportunity”, my aching ass.

And to think that one of my greatest dreams once was to attend Oxford.

5 comments

  1. Look up that brain damaged Roisin McCallion, what a disaster.
    Who put that thing in charge?
    They should be dragged.

  2. But aren’t “Jazz Hands” a reference to Al Jolson in “The Jazz Singer” in which he appeared in … blackface?

    Right up there with the “Okay” hand sign actually meaning “White Power” on the Absolute Stupidity scale.

  3. I’m really having a hard time remembering all the things that offend these twerps. I want to be sure I know all of them so I CAN FUCKING DO THEM!!

  4. I switched gyms to PlanetFitness (slogan: “No gymtimidation”).

    Their dress-code prohibits street-clothes.
    Because street-clothes are gymtimidating.
    No tattoos visible.
    Because tattoos are gymtimidating.
    No boots or hikers.
    Because boots and hikers are gymtimidating.
    No sleeveless showing the results of your arm and shoulder work; no crop-tops showing the results of your diet and ab work.
    Because panty-waist lightweight fairy-fruits and tons-‘o-fun unconscious eaters and other idjits get triggered by healthy skin.

    Well.
    I get triggered by the locker-room no-touch faucets with their ineffective sensors.
    A thirty-second hand worsh takes five-minutes.
    Do not get me started on the slum earthquake-cars ‘music’.
    Extremely gymtimidating.
    Or the thirty-two television sets broadcasting televisionprogramming.
    Trigger trigger trigger.

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