It was, perhaps, the Participation Trophy of political discussion at the time.
I feel like an enormous amount of time and energy in the 90s was devoted to debating the subject of giving children "participation trophies", and in retrospect perhaps this wasn't the most important political topic.
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The real Participation Trophies were the friends we made along the way.
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Fun fact: part of the participation trophy craze came as an unintended result of the psych research done by a friend of Ayn Rand, a man who attempted to disassociate himself from the positivist movement, but was Objectivist adjacent for a long while before renouncing it.
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By positivist I mean "self esteem movement" which, if you think of it, is much more a move towards a weird objectivist attempt at uplifting individualism than collective team effort.
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The most important topic is always class consciousness!
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It was all our boomer parents playing the long game, inventing participation trophies so when we were adults they could act like we were somehow to blame for trophies we didn't expect or really even want bc we could tell they were a farce when we were 7
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In hindsight it probably was the biggest issue & is to blame for the enfeeblement of the millennials
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Ok boomer
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Imo not enough people realize the trophies weren't to let kids feel they were all winners, they were to convince the parents. I imagine it blew up in part as a Freudian flashpoint between boomers and silent generation about validation issues boomer kids dealt w/
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