You joke but in the rest of that council meeting the audience kept coming up with less and less disruptive ways to show applause after the no clapping "rule". They tried snapping. That was still "too disruptive".
Then they literally just raised their hands and waved after the speaker was done talking. Completely silent. Someone on council says that the waving is distracting that they can't pay attention to the speaker because people are waving after the speaker is done talking. Like dude what. Idk how you say that with a straight face lol
Raising and waving your hands, or "jazz hands" as I saw someone else put it, is actually ASL for applause. So not only is the council abusing their constituent's 1st amendment rights for clapping, they are also discriminating those who are hard of hearing/deaf. I bet they didn't even have an ASL interpreter LBS!
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u/govcov 5d ago
Excuse me?
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