On Mon, 3 Oct 2011, Bhaskar Sunkara wrote:
> A self, not police restriction, but the general Assembly should also
> allow applause. I was there on Saturday night and I could not
> participate in that weird jazz-hand twinkle thing they were using to
> silently signal agreement. Call me a crypto-totalitarian, but people who
> say stupid things should get shouted down. People who say agreeable
> things should be cheered.
There was lots of cheering when I was there. Cheering and twinkling aren't mutually exclusive. But the People's Microphone gets in the way of that too -- it makes it hard to cheer except at the end.
Michael