Cheerleaders suspended for hazing, smeared peanut butter on student w/ peanut allergy
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CornBurrito
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I don't get the point of hazing.
Well no I get the point (bonding exercise) I just find it mindblowing that such shit actually works, and that people continue to perpetuate it.
Well no I get the point (bonding exercise) I just find it mindblowing that such shit actually works, and that people continue to perpetuate it.
Omegasquash
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Personally I'd be OK with them getting worse, like not being able to graduate. Granted, they're dumb teenage kids, but that was pretty reckless of them considering peanut allergies aren't exactly small potatoes.
Just like most allergies it's an immune system hypersensitivity to an otherwise harmless substance. White blood cells start activating. Why that happens is not completely understood.
Admiral Bone to Pick
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Cognitive Dissonance.
or...
"Why am I participating in these degrading tasks if I don't enjoy them? Oh, it must be because I really like the group!"
It's why hazing is so popular among fraternities/sororities, sports teams, and cheerleading squads. It cements loyalty.
KO Traveling Hobo
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You may know that, but many people don't.
Hari Seldon
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I don't have any problem with what they did honestly. Pushups and situps? Have ketchup squirted on them? That is pretty mild and harmless fun.
Baconsammy
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I don't believe the story. Nothing like this happens without someone filming it. I demand the proof be shown.
freenudemacusers
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Actually 99% of the time it's chocolate.But... that's not peanut butter...
Srs
Essentially your immune system develops in a way that it should recognize anything foreign (e.g microbes, but food is the same) and react to it. For food however, mechanisms take place to prevent it. That's called tolerance. If it doesn't work properly, you get an allergic reaction.
Delaying the exposure to such things quite dramatically increases the risk of allergies.
So basically, you should have your kids eat everything at a young age.
XiaNaphryz
LATIN, MATRIPEDICABUS, DO YOU SPEAK IT
I thought the usual recommendation is that kids should avoid certain foods until they reach a particular age? Such as avoiding things like nuts and seafood until 3. Unless you mean the 3-5 range.
Seafood might be due to other reasons, such as risk of infection by some nasty virus they sometimes carry. But for nuts, there's actually no good reason for that. There's a bunch of studies around, including one comparing the incidence of peanut allergy in Israel and the UK. It's 10 times higher in the latter. In that study no kids below age 3 in the UK ever had peanuts, while consumption was frequent in Israel for kids <1yo.
SmackDaddy
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+92382
Mammoth Jones
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Fuck hazing. Bunch of fucking bullies.
Expel them.
Expel them.
Beerman462
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How is this not posted
Trancetronic
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She'll be back in a Jiffy
Yeah, as Raist noted, it turns out this makes people way more likely to have allergies. Medical establishment FTW. This also explains why babies putting whatever shit they find on the ground in their mouths is actually an evolutionary adaptation.
shadowsdarknes
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I have nothing against this type of hazing except spreading peanut butter on a person with a peanut allergy. It's reckless and dangerous. They should have made an exception for the allergy by doing something else.
My thoughts exactly.
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