Friday, October 14, 2011

Deaf YouVideo

Interesting to see this blog piece pointing to my blog,"When haters gonna still hate....and the clueless ones continue to be clueless," on what it appears to be on assumptions that I was attacking deaf/hh/Deaf people for making those rude comments in YouTube. Quite the contrary. It was people in general I was noting who made those rude comments. No where did I mention Deaf/deaf/hh people as my target in my blog but rather the people who did the commenting in Sarah Churman's YouTube and elsewhere the links I provided where you can find those demeaning, hateful or clueless comments (e.g. deaf people cannot talk clearly). No where in my blog did I imply or say that the majority of degenerating comments came from "hearing impaired" people. Common sense tells you that one cannot tell whether those comments in YouTube came from a hearing person or a deaf/hh person simply by reading them.

Next time, look both ways before crossing a busy road, people.

UPDATE: Name calling such as "Mikey Mouse" is a sign of defensiveness. Not sure what the owner of Deaf YouVideo big deal was and the need to respond. This blog update was a clarification to readers (and not to Deaf YouVideo) who may have assumed that I was attacking deaf/hh/Deaf people in my haters blog piece but that was never the case as you can clearly see.

UPDATE II: The author of DYV removed a section that contained the name calling as you can see in my screen capture below. My story remains. What I see is the continued misapplication and misunderstanding by people who want to read what they want to read in my blog. Reason for this varies. I've made it clear what my blog was about in my first update for those who misread my blog. Secondly, bringing up the issue of rapes, for example, at Gallaudet is not sensationalism nor attacking Gallaudet University but forcing people to confront the issues. If people choose to bury their heads and pretend they never happened, then they choose that action. Name another blog that have covered this serious issue and I can pretty much guarantee you not one ever did in all these years going back in 2006 when I first covered it. Calling it "sensationalism" such as the issue of rape or alcoholism shows a desire to ignore such seriousness. People would prefer to sweep such issues under the carpet and I find that appalling and sad. 

4 comments:

Crystal said...

It happened to me MANY times. I sincerely believe it is due to people's fear for embarrassment, that of losing or being wrong. Some people are so afraid of being wrong even thought it really has nothing to do with being right or wrong. Some people see everything as right or wrong as well win or lose. This kind of mentality and behavior is quite destructive.

Candy said...

Deaf You Video is a very, very shady site. Not credible and they will allow comments attacking certain individuals when in fact the topic had nothing to do with these individuals. I don't click on Deaf You Video anymore.

Penny, a commenter notified me once that a comment by someone posing as her, attacking me, was not her and she contacted DYV to have them remove it, and they obliged. While another commenter who disagreed with DYV on another topic and provided facts on CI (he has one) and his comment was not published. I've concluded that DYV is out to wage war on certain folks under the disguise of being fair (showing videos covering all sides).

I don't know why Tayler allows this site to publish stuffs on DR, considering that these videos are the same videos one can find in You tube. They're duplicates with additional information typed up that does not always reflect the video messages itself.

DYV = ASSumptions gone wild....

Mike said...

Candy, duly noted.

MM said...

I agree with Candy deafyou is an dodgy and biased site that instead of promoting ASL vids or signed videos neutrally, are selective to the point who they allow to comment as well, while their site = their right, their continued biased editing is bringing it and contributors into disrepute.

Their preference for allowing vindictive and fanatical anons free reign doesn't help either.