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I assumed it was a well-intentioned alternative to loud clapping to help avoid distressing neurodivergent people, or, if there are no neurodivergent people in t

by jl6 3y ago

I assumed it was a well-intentioned alternative to loud clapping to help avoid distressing neurodivergent people, or, if there are no neurodivergent people in the room, to show solidarity with them, or, if solidarity was never in question, to help promote the general concept of allyship, and, helpfully, if anyone doesn’t comply, that’s a great indicator that they oppose all of the above and are therefore fascists to be smoked out.

oefrha 3y ago
> if anyone doesn’t comply, that’s a great indicator that they oppose all of the above and are therefore fascists to be smoked out. Lovely, clapping is now “fascist”. As ridiculous as it sounds, I can’t even tell if this is satire because I’ve met people who seem to genuinely believe that making an okay sign means I’m KKK or something. I’d rather starve on the street than work with a group of people who can blurt out the parent comment with a straight face.
- jl6 3y ago
  Clapping isn’t fascist. But clapping is noise-adjacent, which is distress-adjacent, which is oppression-adjacent, which is fascist-adjacent, so actually clapping is fascist. The logic of American polarization. It is not unique to the left either.
  - kcplate 3y ago
    > But clapping is noise-adjacent, which is distress-adjacent, which is oppression-adjacent, which is fascist-adjacent, so actually clapping is fascist. Hilarious hyperbole here but what is sad is there are some on HN that will not recognize it as such and will nod their heads in agreement as they read it, then in all seriousness convey the idea downstream to some group of like-minded friends who will then add it as one more moral turpitude into their weird nouveau religion.
Turing_Machine 3y ago
It's not "well-intentioned" at all. The objective is to make you obey. That's it. That's the whole reason. The folderol about "neuro-divergent people" is just a thin gloss of claimed virtue intended to disguise the actual goal. Do they have any actual evidence that "neuro-divergent people" suffer a greater degree of trauma from clapping than finger-snapping? No, they don't. Sure, there might be a "neuro-divergent" person, or even more than one, who finds clapping disturbing, but that says nothing at all about the general case. > if anyone doesn’t comply, that’s a great indicator that they oppose all of the above and are therefore fascists to be smoked out. Or witches, perhaps. The terminology changes over the years, but the tactics remain the same. The people who get out the torches and pitchforks because someone clapped his hands are exactly the same type of people who used to lynch blacks, burn harmless old ladies as witches, and throw Jews down wells. Exactly. They do it because they enjoy hurting people, and have found a cover story that allows them to do it under an illusion of virtue. You complain because we burned Mrs. Johnson? Well, then you must be pro-Satan!

by jl6 3y ago

oefrha 3y ago

> if anyone doesn’t comply, that’s a great indicator that they oppose all of the above and are therefore fascists to be smoked out. Lovely, clapping is now “fascist”. As ridiculous as it sounds, I can’t even tell if this is satire because I’ve met people who seem to genuinely believe that making an okay sign means I’m KKK or something. I’d rather starve on the street than work with a group of people who can blurt out the parent comment with a straight face.

jl6 3y ago
Clapping isn’t fascist. But clapping is noise-adjacent, which is distress-adjacent, which is oppression-adjacent, which is fascist-adjacent, so actually clapping is fascist. The logic of American polarization. It is not unique to the left either.
- kcplate 3y ago
  > But clapping is noise-adjacent, which is distress-adjacent, which is oppression-adjacent, which is fascist-adjacent, so actually clapping is fascist. Hilarious hyperbole here but what is sad is there are some on HN that will not recognize it as such and will nod their heads in agreement as they read it, then in all seriousness convey the idea downstream to some group of like-minded friends who will then add it as one more moral turpitude into their weird nouveau religion.

Turing_Machine 3y ago

It's not "well-intentioned" at all. The objective is to make you obey. That's it. That's the whole reason. The folderol about "neuro-divergent people" is just a thin gloss of claimed virtue intended to disguise the actual goal. Do they have any actual evidence that "neuro-divergent people" suffer a greater degree of trauma from clapping than finger-snapping? No, they don't. Sure, there might be a "neuro-divergent" person, or even more than one, who finds clapping disturbing, but that says nothing at all about the general case. > if anyone doesn’t comply, that’s a great indicator that they oppose all of the above and are therefore fascists to be smoked out. Or witches, perhaps. The terminology changes over the years, but the tactics remain the same. The people who get out the torches and pitchforks because someone clapped his hands are exactly the same type of people who used to lynch blacks, burn harmless old ladies as witches, and throw Jews down wells. Exactly. They do it because they enjoy hurting people, and have found a cover story that allows them to do it under an illusion of virtue. You complain because we burned Mrs. Johnson? Well, then you must be pro-Satan!