One of the odder changes in the behavior of people on the left in recent times is going from "I'm a person, not a label" to "Look at all the labels I have!"

"My disability doesn't define me, but I'm still going to put it as the first thing in my twitter bio."

We had a real chance to get something going with occupy and now we aren't allowed to clap at events because clapping is too violent.

>aren't allowed to clap at events because clapping is too violent

This is the first I'm hearing about this, where did you see it?

Replacing applause with Jazz Hands was a remarkably big topic a few years ago.

https://globalnews.ca/news/4512283/jazz-hands-to-replace-cla...

For one example.

I don't think it ever got to the point of "we aren't ever allowed to clap at events", but it certainly seems like there were people who were pushing for that

>In a statement, the University of Manchester Students’ Union said that they are not outright banning audible clapping at all school events, and are instead encouraging “the use of British Sign Language (BSL) clapping during our democratic events.” These events include meetings where members are invited to participate in decision making, the union said.

They made it up.

It's hardly widespread, but it's absolutely happened: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moWe3rk7LzQ

It happening in rare instances isn’t sufficient for the OP to claim “we aren’t allowed to clap at events because clapping is too violent”.

I was replying to this statement, "They made it up."

They didn't make it up, proof was provided that they didn't make it up.

They made it up, because we are certainly still allowed to clap at events.

It started (in modern times) in the 60's at poetry jams. You can do it one-handed (i.e. while holding a drink) and you can also do it during a particularly impressive part of a performance, rather than waiting until the end.

Some groups have definitely taken it as a preference (sorry for the daily mail link, but it was the most succinct): https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3323166/Some-colleg... and tried to tie it to clapping as "triggering", but they're pretty uncommon.

One example of someone not-ironically actually stating that jazz-hands is better than the "triggering" clapping is the Oxford SU Woman's Campaign: https://twitter.com/womcam/status/580389025892175872

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Yeah I’ve definitely been to events where quiet or no clapping is preferred (ex: poetry readings) but the OP claiming we aren’t aloud to clap at events anymore because it’s too violent sounds like someone who hasn’t actually been to a public event in the last year.

I'm sorry you misinterpreted my comment to mean all public events in existence.

Meh.

In fairness, there are a lot of people, making up a lot of things on this discussion thread. It's kind of disingenuous to only call this poster out.

I mean, ideologues are gonna ideologue.

I'm genuinely curious - what kind of ideologue am I?