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“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,” said Nona Buckley-Irvine, general secretary at the London School of Economics Students’ Union. The tweets received a wave of criticism and mockery by people who argued political correctness has run amok, Twitchy first reported.ĭelegates told BBC’s Newsbeat that jazz hands are “a nice way to show solidarity.” Within five minutes, NUS tweeted: “Some delegates are requesting that we move to jazz hands rather than clapping, as it’s triggering anxiety. thank you!” Oxford representatives wrote. The National Union of Students (NUS) Women’s Campaign announced the clapping “ban” at the West Midlands conference on Twitter Tuesday, shortly after receiving a request from the Oxford University Women’s please can we ask people to stop clapping but do feminist jazz hands? it’s triggering some peoples’ anxiety. student feminism conference is asking attendees to refrain from clapping and use “jazz hands” instead so as to not trigger anxiety in others.

What kind of soft-boiled, soft-shell eggs are these hyper-protected students going to grow up to be?Ī U.K. When even a question like 'Where were you born?' can be held aloft as a racist-oppressive attack toward, say, Asians or Latinos - where law students at Harvard can demand that their professors refrain from teaching rape law, or from even using the word 'violate' (as in 'that violates the law') - when such tremendous attention and effort is being placed on protecting these anxiety-ridden hothouse flowers from seeing, hearing, or thinking about the objects of their fears. And along the way, it describes how the 'Safe Speech' movement will cripple the children who are demanding to be protected from speech, or language, or even ideas that they find in the least uncomfortable. The Coddling of the American Mind (Atlantic Magazine, September 2015) does an admirable job of pointing out what the witch-hunt for 'microaggression' and the clamor for 'trigger warnings' are doing to the Education Industry.

suppressing any speech, subjects, even thought that some hypersensitive, victim-minded listener might find 'oppressive.' Has anyone in academia thought through the results of coddling these delicate thin-skinned sensibilities? Trigger warnings - 'safe rooms' - 'safe speech' - 'microaggressions' - we may snicker at them, here, but the demand for 'safe speech' (i.e.

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