Not really.
It wasn't long ago, two months ago in fact, that there was a petition to get rid of a 19th century statue of two Indians fighting a mother grizzly bear (in her effort to protect her two cubs as it would appear) which was created by Douglas Tilden, a world renowned deaf sculpture, where it stands at the California School for the Deaf in Fremont, California, claiming that the statue is racist and it "represents generations of dehumanizing violence towards Native American communities."
Not at all.
Of course, it appears that the majority of those in the Deaf community do not even accept the idea to get rid of the Combat with Grizzly statue that was made by a world renowned deaf sculpture.
Oh, I mustn't forget another recent outrage a few months back about a dirty sign language book penned by a hearing author.
And, of course, another petition to get a printing company, St. Martin's Press, to not print her book because sign language only belong to culturally deaf people and not to the world. By the way signing your name in an online petition does not work nor is it really that effective. It is one of the laziest ways to protest. Sorry to bring that horrified fact to you.
So, what are other list of dramas that I failed to mention here?
7 comments:
The UK has a different approach to petitions we just bin them and never read them. Not a single petition gets looked at unless it has 100,000 signatures. Given the deaf community here is 70,000 altogether......
LOL. How about AGBell? Dime a dozen, I suppose.
Well, if you "don't like it", then go bye bye! I'm sure the hearing world will be happy to have you.
anony @ 7:13 PM,
Bye bye? Not like it? I'm merely pointing out the ludicrousness of these hyperbolic outrages. If you want to be like Colbert, be my guest. You guys are stuck with me. Like it or not.
zzzz.. bloggers/vloggers of any stripe are dramatic by nature. Of course you'd think Deaf culture world = Deaf bloggers/vloggers.
Ben,
Not all bloggers or vloggers are dramatic by nature.
In the Deaf culture world they do have Deaf bloggers and vloggers. Pretty much a fact. Deaf bloggers/vloggers are not always representative of Deaf culture. That much is pretty clear around here.
Try deaf school valedictorians making their speeches without sign language. Or recently deaf parents in Columbus Ohio are getting their deaf kids CI implants.
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