generation snowflake

[alfredmizen]

The best example of Generation Snowflake can be found with millennials at UK and US campuses with their triggers, safe spaces and intolerance to views that don't accord with theirs. A case in point was the NUS women's conference last year where delegates were encouraged not to clap but to wave jazz hands because clapping could trigger anxiety. Also at the same conference a motion was put forward denouncing gay men appropriating black women's culture. Recently a US university banned sushi because of cultural appropriation. More worryingly, Germaine Greer got banned from speaking for daring to have views on transgender people that didn't accord with the prevailing view. An LGBT officer at another university refused to share a platform with Peter Tatchell because he is 'racist and transphobic'.

I forget who but someone hit the nail on the head recently when they said that left-liberal has replaced Anglicanism as the high status opinion in academia in the UK but that rather than encouraging free-thinking and being places where students are intellectually challenged, they become places where dogma is enforced and intolerance is the order of the day. The likes of true feminist academics such as Christina H Sommers, Camille Paglia and Germaine Greer have all spoken at length about this. Unsurprisingly, all 3 have been subject to virulent protests when speaking publicly at universities in the UK and US.

Jesus wept if it wasn't you , I would find it hard to believe the things you posted about the NUS conference and banning sushi/cultural appropriation

 

[Garry Nelson's Left Foot]

The best example of Generation Snowflake can be found with millennials at UK and US campuses with their triggers, safe spaces and intolerance to views that don't accord with theirs. A case in point was the NUS women's conference last year where delegates were encouraged not to clap but to wave jazz hands because clapping could trigger anxiety. Also at the same conference a motion was put forward denouncing gay men appropriating black women's culture. Recently a US university banned sushi because of cultural appropriation.

That sounds too much like a Day Today episode to be true, surely?! At least, I really hope it's not true!

 

[pearl]

The best example of Generation Snowflake can be found with millennials at UK and US campuses with their triggers, safe spaces and intolerance to views that don't accord with theirs. A case in point was the NUS women's conference last year where delegates were encouraged not to clap but to wave jazz hands because clapping could trigger anxiety. Also at the same conference a motion was put forward denouncing gay men appropriating black women's culture. Recently a US university banned sushi because of cultural appropriation. More worryingly, Germaine Greer got banned from speaking for daring to have views on transgender people that didn't accord with the prevailing view. An LGBT officer at another university refused to share a platform with Peter Tatchell because he is 'racist and transphobic'.

I forget who but someone hit the nail on the head recently when they said that left-liberal has replaced Anglicanism as the high status opinion in academia in the UK but that rather than encouraging free-thinking and being places where students are intellectually challenged, they become places where dogma is enforced and intolerance is the order of the day. The likes of true feminist academics such as Christina H Sommers, Camille Paglia and Germaine Greer have all spoken at length about this. Unsurprisingly, all 3 have been subject to virulent protests when speaking publicly at universities in the UK and US.

disturbing post, thanks

 

[Gwylan]

That sounds too much like a Day Today episode to be true, surely?! At least, I really hope it's not true!

Oh, they're true all right. I remember many of them being reported, there are some even crazier examples.

What's much worse though is the proliferation of trigger warnings in the study of books. The classic example is the university who gave out warnings about rape in Ovid's Metamorphoses - something we studied at 13 and 14. Are today's university students really deemed more sensitive than 70s schoolkids?

 

[Buzzer]

Jesus wept if it wasn't you , I would find it hard to believe the things you posted about the NUS conference and banning sushi/cultural appropriation

That sounds too much like a Day Today episode to be true, surely?! At least, I really hope it's not true!

The 'clapping causes anxiety' http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/32032291/students-swap-clapping-for-jazz-hands-at-nus-event

'Gay men appropriating black women culture' http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2015/03/2...ells-gay-men-to-stop-acting-like-black-women/

'Selling sushi is cultural appropriation' http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...priation-over-undercooked-sushi-a6781821.html

'Germaine Greer's trans comments' http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-east-wales-34613148

'Peter Tatchell is racist and transphobic' https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news...dents-free-speech-veteran-gay-rights-activist

Sadly, all of these incidents are true. I'll happily concede that they represent the more ludicrous end of the spectrum but it's indicative of the culture that exists at universities and why people such as man-hating, anti-semite NUS president Malia Bouattia rise to the top.

 

[pastafarian]

queen of the campus snowflakes

 

[Guinness Boy]

What league do your kids play in GB ? Mine both play in the mid Sussex league, I'm sure they had league tables as far back as u9s , prepared to be corrected though.

They're in the Sussex Sunday Youth Football League. It's certainly been this way since I've been involved but that's only been a couple of years. I jumped in when a previous coach bailed and only expected to be helping for a few months

 

[Guinness Boy]

My son joined a locally run league outfit at the age of 5 (not affiliated to the FA) and I was incredibly surprised by the mentality of the organisers and coaches of the other teams in terms of their competitiveness. The results and the leagues were published on the internet and at the park, and the children of the teams in that age group were incredibly (almost unnaturally) competitive, fueled by the parents and the coaches of the teams. Of course those children who wanted to enjoy the participatory element of the games, soon found themselves disliking the shouting and abuse from the touchline, as well as the visciousness of the children who wanted to win. Of the 6 children who weren't "up to competitive standard" which included my son, only 1 of the remained to move into the next "season". The other 5 hated it so much, that they didn't return. My son now enjoys football with a proper FA affiliated coach, as well as his school football coaching, but it took him around a year a the age of 7 to fully enjoy football again.

Our club is FA affiliated and I'm Level One qualified. Our ethos is simple - we take anybody and try to make them a little better. At first this meant 20-0 stuffings every week, now we win a few games and are competitive against all but a few. Those few are the ones who hold trials for 6 year olds. It brings success to those clubs but even then the kids are highly unlikely to be playing at anything higher than about decent County League standard. The Albion keep tabs on and sign up the really talented ones.

 

[alfredmizen]

They're in the Sussex Sunday Youth Football League. It's certainly been this way since I've been involved but that's only been a couple of years. I jumped in when a previous coach bailed and only expected to be helping for a few months

The amount of coaches who have agreed to help out for a "couple of months "

 

[W.C.]

There's a lot of 'bah humbug, young people' on this forum recently.

Very much so. Quite vicious at times too.

 

[Two Professors]

Very much so. Quite vicious at times too.

Perhaps if we had a 'Snowflake' smiley it might calm some of the rhetoric,and perhaps a 'Mussolini' smiley for the Snowflakes to reply to us nasty,bigoted,fascist,racist Brexiteers.

 

[W.C.]

Perhaps if we had a 'Snowflake' smiley it might calm some of the rhetoric,and perhaps a 'Mussolini' smiley for the Snowflakes to reply to us nasty,bigoted,fascist,racist Brexiteers.

You can't beat a good old

Maybe this one works for the fascist look?

 

[Two Professors]

You can't beat a good old

Maybe this one works for the fascist look?

The flounce one is a lovely fluffy one,but the saluting one looks too happy for us miserable old gits

 

[W.C.]

The flounce one is a lovely fluffy one,but the saluting one looks too happy for us miserable old gits

How about this cheeky chappy?

 

[Buzzer]

Perhaps if we had a 'Snowflake' smiley it might calm some of the rhetoric,and perhaps a 'Mussolini' smiley for the Snowflakes to reply to us nasty,bigoted,fascist,racist Brexiteers.

How about this one? It always makes me chuckle

 

[alfredmizen]

Very much so. Quite vicious at times too.

Probably in response to the comments about people who will be dead soon having robbed people of their future, now THATS vicious.

 

[Baldseagull]

Perhaps if we had a 'Snowflake' smiley it might calm some of the rhetoric,and perhaps a 'Mussolini' smiley for the Snowflakes to reply to us nasty,bigoted,fascist,racist Brexiteers.

Need a female genitals one for you.

 

[alfredmizen]

Need a female genitals one for you.

Was there any need for that?

 

[Rodney Thomas]

I would suggest that the majority of bedwetting that occurs on here after decisions made by the Albion (regarding transport, food, ticket prices etc) often comes from the elder generations. Perhaps they ought to take a long hard look at their own generation.

 

[W.C.]

Probably in response to the comments about people who will be dead soon having robbed people of their future, now THATS vicious.

Vicious was very ott, not sure where that sprang from. Was thinking more of the constant criticism of the lifestyles of the young. I just don't see how it's helpful.