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Title: Student Union Wants to Ban Clapping and Cheering Because it Excludes Deaf People
Post by: rangerrebew on April 30, 2017, 11:44:57 am

   
Student Union Wants to Ban Clapping and Cheering Because it Excludes Deaf People


By Lukas Mikelionis | 2:23 pm, April 28, 2017   



Britain’s largest national student union has told attendees of its annual conference they would face “consequences” for cheering and clapping because these forms of expression exclude deaf people.

The National Union of Students (NUS), which includes most university student unions, held a two-day conference on Tuesday.

https://heatst.com/culture-wars/student-union-wants-to-ban-clapping-and-cheering-because-it-excludes-deaf-people/?mod=hsnewsletter_dd&utm_source=Boomtrain&utm_medium=manual&utm_campaign=20161122&bt_ee=ypao0RPFsO0uXVIJwJX7c/n3+GCqna6mAVmHRrZHT+WJ1Dh2JX27+BWXyawJrODE&bt_ts=1493410299806&mod=hsnewsletter_dd

Title: Re: Student Union Wants to Ban Clapping and Cheering Because it Excludes Deaf People
Post by: rangerrebew on April 30, 2017, 11:46:32 am

 :facepalm2:

Title: Re: Student Union Wants to Ban Clapping and Cheering Because it Excludes Deaf People
Post by: Cripplecreek on April 30, 2017, 11:54:21 am

I ran with a whole family of deaf people in my youth and I was ruthless with my deafness based pranks.

I'd see one of them pull into the party store across the street from my house and I'd run over and crack the radio in their car full tilt. They would drive off blasting polka or some crap like that.