Slouching Towards "Not Deaf Enough"?

What I am seeing now is that the longer this protest goes on, the angrier the protesters are becoming and they are starting to show their true feelings contrary, or so it seems, to what they have said back in May that this protest isn't about the "not Deaf enough" issue. However, it may not be "the" issue but many do certainly see it as a *major* component of their daily diet of complaints hidden among their own words, actions and between the lines commentaries. Gallaudet University has always been about the "holy trinity" which is Deaf Family, Deaf School and Deaf ASL which JKF clearly lacks according to Deaf protesters. Not that there is anything exclusively wrong with the "holy trinity" idea. Just that a bit of honesty would suffice for a change.

In the New York Times shows the ludicrousness of what I'm seeing:

"One protester, Ronald Ferris, who is blind and deaf, said he believed that Dr. Fernandes did not connect with deaf people. In a measure of how personal the dispute has become, Mr. Ferris pointed to her choice of a husband as proof. “She doesn’t really feel us,” he signed through interpreters. “She’s very critical of deaf culture, because she married somebody who hears.”

Lamest thing I ever heard in my doggone life. She's critical of Deaf culture because she married a hearing person? Must be the "holy trinity" thing speaking in tongues.

I guess Dr. Jane K. Fernandes' action and her apparent lack of "Deaf culturism" while she was growing up ought to have been enough for her to be "excommunicated" by the "I-am-for-unity" and "I-respect-deaf/hh-people's-choices" crowd at Gallaudet church University believing that she's a practicing "Audist" because she's "not ASL-enough." A fate worse than adultery earning her the Scarlet Letter "A" stamped across on her forehead. And this was all about her lack of "leadership qualities"?

Go figure.


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