Oh, snap: Campus kids drop 'triggering' applause to show approval

Fox News ^ | 17 November 15 | Maxim Lott

[aomagrat]

The social justice warriors of American campuses would like you to hold your applause.

When a Yale student's angry meltdown at a professor went viral, viewers may have noticed the crowd gathered and some students snapping their fingers. It's the currently preferred method of showing approval in some circles, given complaints that traditional clapping can be "triggering," or even painful to hands unaccustomed to work. Although the curious digital trend is catching fire with the college crowd, it is not new or confined to the U.S.

[aomagrat]

Don't these people know that Whitey traditionally snapped his fingers at the black help to get their attention.

[a fool in paradise]

Subversion.

“America’s history and traditions are going to have to change.”

FU MO and your socialist ‘cultural revolution’.

[a fool in paradise]

Sounds like they have obsessive-compulsive disorder. Same as the Islamists.

Fit in a tiny box, no straying from the edict.

[NonValueAdded]

Don't these people know that Whitey traditionally snapped his fingers at the black help to get their attention.

Ooh, microaggression! Those poor young skulls full of mush.

[ScottinVA]

LMAO!!! What a show... imagine these pathetic little snowflakes dealing with the likes of Putin.

[C. Edmund Wright]

is this satire?

[wetgundog]

Michigan Men’s Glee Club = GAY

[Mr. K]

Those big sillies.. don’t they know how to do “up twinkles”

[Larry Lucido]

Do these kids hide under the bed during a thunderstorm?

[libertarian27]

Sounds like a chronic tic disorder - like Tourette Syndrome.

[PoloSec]

This goes way back to the Beatnick days, they were replaced in the sixties by Hippies, what goes around comes around.

[skr]

Finger-snapping is what spaced-out, self-important, unemployed/unemployable beatniks used to do in coffee houses at poetry readings. You can’t get much less irrelevant than that.

[boycott]

This generation has got some very difficult times ahead of it. Snapping their fingers won’t solve the problems they will face. They’re in for a very rude awakening.

[moovova]

Tried that once with the wife...

SNAP! SNAP! “Yo, woman, get me a beer and a sammich.”

She introduced me to Mr. Frying Pan.

[Travis T. OJustice]

Thunder buddies.

[Tupelo]

Snapping fingers? If memory serves, that was the preferred way of showing appreciation for a performance in coffee shops back during the “Beatnik” days. 1958-1960 or so.

The more things change, the more things stay the same.
To quote a famous line from a famous movie: It’s Twue. It’s Twue.”

[NathanR]

LOL snigger.

[csvset]

Finger snapping? They did that way back in '61 in the film West Side Story.

[Larry Lucido]

:-)

[Larry Lucido]

I can’t snap my fingers or whistle. Which is why I’ve never been a beatnik or construction worker.