Like black underclass youngsters who diss their more studious classmates as "acting white," some deaf activists denigrate deaf people who use eloquent English as unacceptably "hearing." Mike McConnell, a 1991 Gallaudet graduate and active in the nearly oxymoronic (given the bent of Deaf culture) Deaf Republicans, posted this email he received from a deaf activist on his blog Kokonut Pundits: "Deaf Republicans website is not written by deaf people. its language is too hearing and it is written by Republican party."
I warned the author to expect back lashes from the Deaf community (and here in DeafDC) and needless to say when her editors read her article they were more or less "horrified" at what went on out there and how people or protesters, per the article, who constantly portrayed themselves as being the "victims." Or are they? Who are the real victim here?
Good or bad? A matter of difference in perspsective here? A little bit of harsh truth here or there? Incorrect factoids? Or too much of a myth, labeling or painting it with a broad brush here? Was the article a good one? Or a bad one? A bit of both? Depends on who you ask I would guess.
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