Back to the fifties. I thought these kids hated the fifties.
Posted on 11/18/2015 4:12:47 AM PST by 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.
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My first thought, too. "There is nothing new under the sun" Ecclesiastes 1:9
Nitwittery run amok.
This goes way back to the Beatnick days, they were replaced in the sixties by Hippies
And the emo-hipster Starbucks-swilling free-dope SJW crowd has appropriated it for their use.
Meet the new slackers, same as the old slackers...
And that right there is the problem.
"Arbeit macht frei" - these fools do not understand work, and as such, freedom.
“painful to hands unaccustomed to work.”
Are they proud of that or something?
“snigger”
microaggression
Looks like they’ve reverted back to the ‘beatnick’ way. :/
That’s bull... the peremptory double clap for service was used by the nawabs and maharajahs for millennia to summon the slaves. God knows their hands had no experience with work.
Maynard Krebbs comes to mind.
This is absolutely hysterical. (Ping since you’re considering college.)
On the other hand, we attended a family conference years ago at which people were asked to wave, rather than clap, to show approval of a speaker. This was because nearly every family had a baby with them, and clapping disturbs babies who are sleeping or nursing.
Unintentional hilarity. Snapping fingers was used as Beatnik applause, usually after listening to one of their number recite doggerel (bad poetry).
William McGonagall would have been held up by them as a poetic genius.
“...Oh! Ill-fated bridge of the silv’ry Tay,
I now must conclude my lay
By telling the world fearlessly without the least dismay,
That your central girders would not have given way,
At least many sensible men do say,
Had they been supported on each side with buttresses
At least many sensible men confesses,
For the stronger we our houses do build,
The less chance we have of being killed.”
(snapping fingers)
Back to the fifties. I thought these kids hated the fifties.
Shades if fifties white beatniks.
STOP appropriating my culture!
“Snigger”??? You aggressor me, daddy-o.
EXCLUSIVE: Clapping May Be To Blame For Climate Change!
Studies show that clapping is destroying delicate snowflakes around the world!
“You can’t get much less irrelevant than that.”
Yes you can, it’s easy.
Like, totally, dude.
Priceless.
or even painful to hands unaccustomed to work. and there it is...
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