Avdism

I decided to write the word "avdism" from now on after seeing the Holism blog on the subject. The "v" letter replaces the "u" letter. The original word has been abused too much using it as a weapon of choice much like the word "racism" was used in order to play the race card when there were none to be had in the first place. This not only proves damaging but does nothing to help the situation. "Avdism" has increasingly become an insidious word lately. I'd much rather focus on the inequalities and discriminations rather than become enamored over a single word or two hoping it'd be recognized and placed in a dictionary. I'll also include "avdist" into my own personal "dictionary" seeing that I'm the inventer of those words.

When the "a-wordism" needs to disappear

Sometimes with good intention comes with unintended consequences. In this case it's the invention of a new word, "avdism" (yes, I purposely misspelled that). What's the value I see in it? Probably the same value in where I link it to describe the meaning behind it.

Gamas Wanderings has a nice blog on the word "avdism" and how it should be discontinued because it creates more problems than it does solve them. Namely one of them is the constant abuse of the word used as a weapon of choice to attack rather than to educate about a particular form of discrimination. It would be better to keep it neutral as possible and at the same time educate those who do not understand about the issues of deafness. Pointing fingers at them and scream, "Avdist! Avdist!" like some scene in the movie "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" certainly does not help the situation any more than people use a cop out word "Racist!" It just creates more problems than it does solving it.

It's time to retire the a-wordism once and for all and focus on the actual education of the public through neutral means and less attacking those who do not fully understand the issue of deafness and even the culture behind it.

To criticize Obama is not racist....

Cartoon courtesy of NBRA by Brett Noel.

Whenever there is a commentary in a blog criticizing Obama by taking him to task over certain short-sightedness or policy approach that has nothing to do with his skin color or ethnicity. Nor is it a racist, of course. What it boils down to is the right to freely express an opinion about the President of the United States but Liberals have decided to play the race card to the hilt but it has proven to be disastorous so far, of course. We see people who are being subjected at every turn called a "racist" by liberals' knee-jerking response who the overly protective and zealous Obama adulators. This, I'm sure, has happened many times when Obama first came on the scene back in 2007 onward for the 2008 presidential race and to today which has gone completely overboard with Obama contributing to the race card meme by calling Officer Crowley for "acting stupidly."

This whole racist charge isn't a just hearing people phenomenom thing, either. You have deaf people accuse others for being racist for making critical comments against the president. The first one that I remembered to have lobbed that charge, in so many words, came earlier this year. It was an unfortunate but a laughable charge. Mishka Zena (an Obama adulator?) had the, ahem, audacity to charge (J'accuse!) Rob Underhill in the blog comment over his blog article about Obama's trash after the inauguration stating what he wrote was racist. Mishka Zena made the charge with the presumption that by treating Obama differently is a racist act. Racist? You gotta be joking! Would it be any different had the President been a white Democrat with a green agenda and still saw messy result at the Mall on inauguration day? Ironically, it is the Democrats who are treating Obama differently by holding him up as the "messiah."

Nothing worse than to jump gun and use the color excuse and make a serious but unsubstantiated charges of racism. No matter what you say about Obama when criticizing him you will more than likely hear charges of racism from the mouths of Obama adulators.

There's no getting away from it.

Laugh at a political cartoon showing two cops who had just shot a crazed monkey?

Raaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaacist!

Compare Obama's ipost inauguration trash in DC to a post 9/12 million plus Tea Party protesters in DC with near clean results?

Raaaaaaaaaaaaacist!!

Obama's political experience is less than Governor Palin.

Raaaaaaaaaaacist!!

Obama picked a tax cheat for Secretary of Treasury.

Raaaaaaaaaaaacist!!

Obama's bailout package with one measure containing $4.2 billion dollars where ACORN (widely know for their fraudulent activities supporting Obama only and not a neutral organization) will be eligible for it...without question.

Raaaaaaaaaaaaacist!!

Obama's ears look funny.

Raaaaaaaaaaaaaacist!!

Obama's a mulatto.

Raaaaaaaaaaaaacist!!!

Obama's black and white.

Raaaaaaaaaaaaaacist!!!

Obama's is no Martin Luther King.

Raaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaacist!!!

Barack Hussein Obama Elected As Our Nation’s First Black President and Our Nation’s First Marxist President.

Raaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaacist!!

Well, the bit about MLK, first Marxist President and the cartoon at the top came from the National Black Republican Association website. So, you can't accuse me of being racist which would be mighty stupid of you to try and do so.

So, please. Stop with the constant knee-jerking whenever one criticizes Obama that has nothing to do with the color of his skin or ethnicity but rather by the content of Obama's character and not his skin.

In short.... Mishka Zena, the people in Alldeaf and all others need to get past this myopic view of using race as your calling card which is a feeble crutch of a defense in the attempt to protect Obama at every turn by making baseless and unsubstantiated charges. Doing so shows desperation on your part. Remember, this is 2009. Not 1865. It's the Democrats who ought to owe blacks an apology for legitimizing racist attitudes of the past and even today.

Tiptoe around the president??

An interesting comment from the dregs of Alldeaf:

If people feel that they have to tiptoe around him because he is black, then they must be racist themselves. Otherwise, why the need to walk on eggshells?

I wonder why is that? Is it because any criticisms lobbed in the president's direction would instantly be called a "Raaaaaaaaaaacist!!" every single time? I think it's the Democrats who are doing the tiptoe-ing which means they are racist, to0?

Here's a prime example of calling one a racist that had nothing to do with the president but for having an opinion. And this was in reference to a cartoon of a monkey that was shot which was in reference to an earlier news story of an actual chimp that went mad and killed a person forcing cops to kill the animal. Here's an example dialogue.

DM: Exactly. Other presidents have been portrayed as a certain animal in other assorted political cartoons, but Obama gets a pass because hes black? F**k that.

J: Spoken like a true, narrow minded racist.

DM: I dont understand how I could be racist when I wanted Obama to win the presidency. I just dont believe in special treatment to people because he's a certain skin color. So cry foul all you want.

J: That's the whole point. You don't understand. Covert racism is rarely recognized by those most guilty of it.

No matter what you do or say, anything remotely critical of the president (even if it's not even directed at him) means that racism lies covertly in your heart. Because you see, "you don't understand," according to Newsweek all whiteys are born racist. How convenient and intellectually vapid, and not to mention utterly boring as well.

Crybabies or overly sensitive people??

A Foxnews video about the biggest crybabies at the White House is what spurred me to think about Alldeaf, DeafTV, audism, racism and including what Barry said over at his Holism blogsite.

Recently I decided to play the devil's advocate in Alldeaf where I essentially asked the question whether saying "I'm proud to white" would be any different than saying "I'm proud to be black" or any other ethnic background one could be proud of. Since Alldeaf is overwhelmingly a liberal forum with at least one liberal moderator who actually thought that a photo of a cat dressed up as an al Qaeda suicide bomber pictured in the jokes section of Alldeaf was considered as an "offensive" photo. No, I'm serious. Laugh if you will but that's how lame it was. But back to the devil's advocate position I took. I went out there and said "I'm proud to be white." Now, to a liberal they'd find it horrifying since it would bring all kinds of connotations though what I said had nothing to do with white pride like the KKK, skinheads and such. Yet at the same time avoided the question on why it's ok for others to say "I'm proud to be black"? It was a honest question. Hard hitting but honest. I was questioning the double standards. I also asked them whether if they are proud to be white as well? As expected, they evaded the question saying it didn't matter. Or one would say he is proud of one's heritage or ethnicity but at the same time blurt out that it doesn't mean that he is ashamed for being white, either.

Okayyy. They won't say it. Pretty obvious at that.

Say anything else for fear of getting labeled as a "racist," which is ridiculous in it's own right. Even though there's a good chance that for a white or black person to have other ethnic blood (Indian, European, African American, Asian, etc) in him though diluted with each passing generation. AD members began to joke and say, "I'm proud to be a mutt" but the irony is that Alldeaf banned me for a day for using the word "mulatto" to describe Obama as the "first mulatto president," a president of mixed black and white heritage. Entirely acceptable when there is even a mulatto.org group that pride themselves as mulutto people and see Obama as an example of that.

Trust me, it gets surreal in there. Like having a hearing mother make a claim that her profoundly deaf son with a hearing aid can talk and listen over the phone with anybody with ease in an attempt to save face and credibility.

And so by asking the hard question about "I'm proud to be white," I get banned again for "Trolling; Provoking; Enticing; Racism." Bottom line, Alldeaf is essentially calling me a racist for asking the tough questions. They used a coward approach by implying that I am a racist as one of the reason for being banned. Remember what Barry said over at Holism about DeafTV, audism and racism? Or perhaps Krauthammer said it best about using the "racist" charge:

"The accusation of racism is a sign of desperation by people who know they are losing the national debate and they want to hurl the ultimate charge in American politics."

It gets old. You can actually see desperation unfolds when people do that.

Now, are they crybabies? Limp-wristed, overly sensitive people? What do you think? If they ban words like "Deafreedom" in your Personal Message or find a picture of a dressed up cat as a suicide bomber as being "offensive" in the jokes section, no less, then certainly we're dealing with a few loose screws. Kind of like hearing through the filter the den of screams of anguish with the gnashing of the teeth over DeafTV by people who are basically accusing the Deaf owner of DeafTV of "audism" for not defending against "audism" which is equally amusing though I have no interest in the whole affairs anway.

Though it does get old. It becomes an indefensibly and intellectually dishonest approach.

Sensitive people need to suck it up. And argue on the merit itself rather than the route of feigned or mock outrage, and continued ad hominem attacks which a 7 year kid can do that.

It does get old.

I'll be back to ask the hard questions once again as I descend into the voids of liberal thinking tomorrow. A little challenge doesn't hurt anybody, except for the really sensitive ones.