• foggy@lemmy.world
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    is part of a generation of parents who voted and agreed upon giving children participation trophies

    Belittles those children as adults for receiving the participation trophies they dreamed up

    Annoyed adolescents

    Surprised geriatrics

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      Also, I have never, ever actually received a so-called participation trophy. As far as I know they made it up just to be dicks

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        Had a couple medals from tee-ball leagues and stuff, but it really served more as a souvineer to remember it by. The team that won still got an actual trophy.

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        I did once! Technically it was a participation ribbon. Picture it: Southern California, 1993, school foot race. I was 8 years old. The winners got the blue ribbon and the whatever second place was colored ribbon. And everybody else (me) got a white participation ribbon.

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          Yeah, this is consistent with my experience too. I got one or two participation ribbons in my whole school life (graduated early 2000s), but they weren’t common, and they never came at the exclusion of winners being recognized.

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        Closest I’ve seen was my kid getting one for a charity run. I’m not sure it counts since it wasn’t a race - everyone who ran got the same ribbon. My kid didn’t even run - he was a scout and volunteered to raise the flag and lead the Pledge of Allegiance.

        I think it’s probably one of those things that happened in a few places and the right wingers talk about it like it happens everywhere.

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            I mean I am sure in that I coached teams as a 22 year old that received participation trophies in the same leagues in which I did not, yes

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      us: participation trophies made of white ribbon

      them: participation trophies made of living wages and home ownership