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https://abcnews.go.com/US/universit...shering-graduates-off-stage/story?id=54979432

Did you guys see this video of the UF graduation ceremony? I honestly thought I was watching a SNL skit.

My thoughts are that the Usher was being way too aggressive; you can't put your hands and push them off stage like that. On the other hand, graduation ceremonies are meticulously planned and graduates can't take up that much time expressing themselves and holding up the proceedings for everyone else.

I feel like its a case of traditional adult social norms at these sort of things vs our #lookatme generation.
 
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I think something needs to be done. I hate the disrespect that people demonstrate at graduations. You have a bunch of people hollering and acting ridiculous and then the next person's family can't even hear their name called. There are times where it is reasonable to expect a little class.

However, even though I think the dancing is pretty silly it seemed they were a little quick with the hook there.
 
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I got why the guy was ushering them off, and my guess is that people have made a big scene in the past which is why he was so ready to do so...

... but shit, that was a BAD look, as this older white dude was literally grabbing young smiling dancing black kids and shoving them off stage. I nearly laughed at how bad the optics of it were.
 
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I like somber high school graduations and raucous college graduations. High school, it's like the last bit of control over young adults who aren't really used to being adults yet before they basically go wild. College, it's a last hurrah before entering the so-called "real world."
 
Did they usher white kids off the stage as well? If yes, then this is a non story. If no...... well.... gonna be hard to explain that one, UF.
 
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Did they usher white kids off the stage as well? If yes, then this is a non story. If no...... well.... gonna be hard to explain that one, UF.
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Eh, did white kids dance when they got their diplomas?

My guess is that this was somewhere around 80 percent "We have kids do dumb stuff at graduation, so we are primed and ready to usher them off" and 20 percent "Darn black kids, with their bipping and their bopping" and my guess is the 20 percent stuff was pretty subconscious.
 
I hope you all watched some interviews from the kids. They spent a lot of time creating their dance that reflected their experiences and time at UF. By not letting them dance on stage it was a violation of their first amendment right.

That's what they said anyway...
 
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bignish said:
https://abcnews.go.com/US/universit...shering-graduates-off-stage/story?id=54979432

Did you guys see this video of the UF graduation ceremony? I honestly thought I was watching a SNL skit.

My thoughts are that the Usher was being way too aggressive; you can't put your hands and push them off stage like that. On the other hand, graduation ceremonies are meticulously planned and graduates can't take up that much time expressing themselves and holding up the proceedings for everyone else.

I feel like its a case of traditional adult social norms at these sort of things vs our #lookatme generation.
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This is it, there’s no end to the nonsense. Just walk up there and get your ****ing diploma you selfish bastards. The world doesn’t revolve around you
 
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Eh, did white kids dance when they got their diplomas?
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Does that make any sort of difference, at all? One kid dances, another kid “raises the roof,” another kid does something stupid like wear clown shoes and a funny wig... who gives a shit. Let em have their little 10 second celebration.
 
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DeputyDodge said:
This is it, there’s no end to the nonsense. Just walk up there and get your ****ing diploma you selfish bastards. The world doesn’t revolve around you
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Sooooo... at a ceremony where the entire point is to have an individual come up and receive something they worked for, at the moment they get that diploma, it doesn’t revolve around them? I think there is a chance you are actually precisely wrong; at that moment at that ceremony, it DOES revolve around them; that’s why they are on a stage with their name being read out to a huge arena of people.

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Does that make any sort of difference, at all? One kid dances, another kid “raises the roof,” another kid does something stupid like wear clown shoes and a funny wig... who gives a shit. Let em have their little 10 second celebration.
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Well, it does matter a little... you can’t say “Well they didn’t do this to the white kids” if the white kids didn’t do anything similar. There’s nothing there to compare.
 
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Does that make any sort of difference, at all? One kid dances, another kid “raises the roof,” another kid does something stupid like wear clown shoes and a funny wig... who gives a shit. Let em have their little 10 second celebration.
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My issue with that is then the next person's family can't even hear their name called because of all the ruckus others are making. The solution would be to just wait until the person finishes the Cupid Shuffle or whatever but then you have a 7 hour ceremony or something. I think it is reasonable to expect some sort of decorum.
 
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Yeah, sure, but I doubt that those kids doing their little dance are making any sort of noise that is audible anywhere in that huge arena... they aren’t micced (sp?) after all. The issue would be the delay, I suppose, and the desire to not allow the slippery slope issue come up.
 
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Yeah, sure, but I doubt that those kids doing their little dance are making any sort of noise that is audible anywhere in that huge arena... they aren’t micced (sp?) after all. The issue would be the delay, I suppose, and the desire to not allow the slippery slope issue come up.
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No, they aren't making noise but when they start dancing or whatever their families start doing it. It happens at every level from elementary school through college. I just personally find it disrespectful. I don't think they are terrible people or anything but just find it selfish and disrespectful.
 
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coryfly said:
My issue with that is then the next person's family can't even hear their name called because of all the ruckus others are making. The solution would be to just wait until the person finishes the Cupid Shuffle or whatever but then you have a 7 hour ceremony or something. I think it is reasonable to expect some sort of decorum.
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Yep, it’s inconsiderate at the minimum. Nobody wants to be at those things for hours and hours
 
DeputyDodge said:
Yep, it’s inconsiderate at the minimum. Nobody wants to be at those things for hours and hours
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What’s inconsiderate, is not allowing a student who’s busted their ass for 4 years to celebrate, just a little, without being escorted off stage.

To hell with the people who are attending. It’s not about them, or their time. I’ve sat through dozens of boring ass graduation ceremonies. The trick is, smoke a bowl before you go in to those places. Makes the whole experience much better.
 
coryfly said:
No, they aren't making noise but when they start dancing or whatever their families start doing it. It happens at every level from elementary school through college. I just personally find it disrespectful. I don't think they are terrible people or anything but just find it selfish and disrespectful.
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Whaddya mean, “these people”?
 
npreston said:
What’s inconsiderate, is not allowing a student who’s busted their ass for 4 years to celebrate, just a little, without being escorted off stage.

To hell with the people who are attending. It’s not about them, or their time. I’ve sat through dozens of boring ass graduation ceremonies. The trick is, smoke a bowl before you go in to those places. Makes the whole experience much better.
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You have not sat through dozens, nobody has unless they’re working those events. Narcissistic morons who refuse to act as instructed are inconsiderate
 
DeputyDodge said:
You have not sat through dozens, nobody has unless they’re working those events. Narcissistic morons who refuse to act as instructed are inconsiderate
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I haven’t sat through dozens? Ok boss. Whatever you say.

Inconsiderate is, as inconsiderate does.
 
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