The pointless endeavor of comparing different tragedies or histories of oppression to one another by attempting to quantify the suffering and/or injustice of each, so as to determine which tragedy was more tragic, or which oppressed peoples were more unjustly oppressed.
Jamie: Did you heard about the bombing in Boston?
Frank: The Arab world suffers violence like this every day as a result of US foreign policy.
Jamie: ...let's not play the Suffering Olympics.
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Alan: The fight for LGBT rights is this generation's great civil rights movement.
Rob: Their is no comparison between the struggles African-Americans faced and the struggle of the LGBT community.
Allison: Neither compare to the struggle women have faced.
Alan: Do we really need to play the Suffering Olympics?
The behavior of the jockocracy, especially in High School. Swaggering buffoonery is distinguished from mere buffoonery by the injection of confrontational menace and humiliation into horseplay.
Justin was brilliant but barely 5'4" as a freshman, in other words the ideal victim for the swaggering buffoonery of the jocks.
The name students of Special Forces Assessment and Selection 'lovingly' refer to it as. Three weeks of hell that includes: running, ruck marching, land navigation, and the dreaded Team Week.
Also the first step in soldiers' training to become US Army Special Forces soldiers, known as the Green Berets.
I'm so glad we somehow made it through the School For AdvancedSuffering.