The problem with satire

I've no problem with satires in the political realm of things, even in deaf politics. But to be a blogger and do satires by going after known deaf people in the blog/vlogosphere for "entertainment venue" or use "sarcasm in its stories" while hiding behind a disclaimer that everything blogged is simply fictional is being dishonest if not disingenuous. By repeatedly going after certain deaf people it would become increasingly obvious a blogger, in reality, has a political disagreement and makes it known by doing these "fictional stories." Its aggressiveness begins to stand out. It'd be easier to blog and state the reason why you disagree rather than hide behind a disclaimer that blogs are simply fictional stories. By doing these so-called "fictional stories" it becomes obvious the effort to hide behind political disagreements. Sorry, using a disclaimer won't work when it has already become obvious a blogger's own political disagreements in the world of deaf politics.

Best and Worst Responses for 2010, Part 2 of 4.

Continuing from Part 1 of 4.


April 2010

Since I got my new hearing aids, I have upgraded myself from 'deaf' to HH' I hear so much better with them and I am enjoying my friends at work so much!! Before that it was a chore to talk to anyone. Now I'm participating in the chatter and it has made a world of difference in my happiness at work.
http://kokonutpundits.blogspot.com/2010/04/value-of-work-encounters-for-deaf-and.html


May 2010

Thanks to these people, the Deaf community is now a laughingstock.
http://kokonutpundits.blogspot.com/2010/05/avdism.html

Instead of "F*ck the Deaf Community", that the hearing father already regretted, maybe it should be more of "F*ck the Mask of Benevolence Community".
http://kokonutpundits.blogspot.com/2010/05/fck-you-deaf-community.html

Wow. Strong words. Eventually that guy's daughter will turn up at an HLAA, ALDA or IFHOH Convention. She'll fit right in with the rest of us oral deaf people. No one will care how she communicates. Since more than 2/3 of all deaf people are oral deaf, she'll be in good company. ;-) I've met many, many like her.
http://kokonutpundits.blogspot.com/2010/05/fck-you-deaf-community.html

Oh, I know. I know. You'll never understand.
http://kokonutpundits.blogspot.com/2010/05/fck-you-deaf-community.html

I wonder If I, a mother wants to remove hair cells in my child's cochlea, will it be consider a child abuse?
http://kokonutpundits.blogspot.com/2010/05/fck-you-deaf-community.html

Hedy-- You've used that example before and it creeps me out.
http://kokonutpundits.blogspot.com/2010/05/fck-you-deaf-community.html

Ulaubooooo, scoobie doooooo, fuggamatich sammywich with mayo hamncheese!
http://kokonutpundits.blogspot.com/2010/05/deafhood-no-thanks.html

Mike...you never fail to disappoint me. Once again, you've shown how narrow minded and uneducated you are.
http://kokonutpundits.blogspot.com/2010/05/deafhood-no-thanks.html

hee hee ... good one, Mike! hope this one will go into your year-end collection of greatest zingers. good to see you haven't lost your way with words, or your sense of humor!
http://kokonutpundits.blogspot.com/2010/05/deafhood-no-thanks.html

Trevor, it's a satire. You're making a big frakking deal out of this satire. Chill out, dude.
http://kokonutpundits.blogspot.com/2010/05/deafhood-no-thanks.html


Yup, Mike, you can chill now...my Deafologist group has just deemed you're not a suppressive after all. (Bzzzz) Oops that was my pager....let's see...ah...that was my commander...he says I must go back to auditing people. Well, excuse me, I'm gonna go now to spread the bliss! Peace out...
http://kokonutpundits.blogspot.com/2010/05/deafhood-no-thanks.html

I have a BA and MA in English, so I know what a satire is.
http://kokonutpundits.blogspot.com/2010/05/deafhood-no-thanks.html

You got crushed by a Meriam-Webster dictionary over your two English degrees.
http://kokonutpundits.blogspot.com/2010/05/deafhood-no-thanks.html

I fully expect the Deafhood "leadership" to start looking for me now, as I am within their ranks, the most dangerous threat to their plans. I am: Fiver!
http://kokonutpundits.blogspot.com/2010/05/deafhood-no-thanks.html

Hmmm... the potential hazard is you and your computer might be insanely brain washed instantly.
http://kokonutpundits.blogspot.com/2010/05/google-posts-deafhood-warning-on-search.html

I just saw someone creating a new word: deaffort. Have no idea what it is. It is being discussed over in a very secluded and closed video world.
http://kokonutpundits.blogspot.com/2010/05/very-special-people-hate-crime.html


And, Mike, lay off that hand-rubbing gesture for pausing. Kinda make you look like a villain gleefully plotting something with hand-rubbing. I had the same problem with experimenting my first couple vlogs.
http://kokonutpundits.blogspot.com/2010/05/part-ii-mikes-asl-vlog-to-deaf.html

Heh heh. My plan is working flawlessly! *rubs hands.* You know, I don't have a plan. I just rub my hands together and chuckle.
http://kokonutpundits.blogspot.com/2010/05/part-ii-mikes-asl-vlog-to-deaf.html

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http://kokonutpundits.blogspot.com/2010/05/adversity-perspective-from-deafhh.html


June 2010

I think it's sad someone is donating such a large sum of money to a group that is about doing nothing instead of to a group that is about doing SOMETHING.
http://kokonutpundits.blogspot.com/2010/06/money-donated-to-deafhood-no-thanks.html

holding a doctorate degree isn't going to make you rich and successful.
http://kokonutpundits.blogspot.com/2010/06/money-donated-to-deafhood-no-thanks.html

Who makes fun of a kid? That guy is an ass.
http://kokonutpundits.blogspot.com/2010/06/when-deaf-person-is-mocked-for-his.html

I honestly don't think that Deaf Hate Crime is materialized. Someone is trying to make money out of it. Hate Crime is enough.
http://kokonutpundits.blogspot.com/2010/06/jumping-deaf-hate-crime-bandwagon.html

At your next Vlog, please take your hat off since I cannot see your eyes that are a significant part of ASL for understanding. thanks.
http://kokonutpundits.blogspot.com/2010/06/jumping-deaf-hate-crime-bandwagon.html

Still laughing here on my end... showed the video to my daughter who laughed her head off. She said, "if he'd play the game once he'd know what monopoly money is".
http://kokonutpundits.blogspot.com/2010/06/critical-analysis.html

I was disappointed that they didn't make out in the end.
http://kokonutpundits.blogspot.com/2010/06/sock-pow-its-deaf-dynamic-duo.html

Yep. A bunch of hypocrites. Why not attack Cerf for not giving up his AGBell medal award after 13 years? Bunch of wimps, emotional cry babies. I dare those Deaf extremists to challenge Cerf to give up his medal! I DARE YA!
http://kokonutpundits.blogspot.com/2010/06/vincent-cerf-accepted-award-from-agbell.html

So...Al Gore didn't invent the Internets?
http://kokonutpundits.blogspot.com/2010/06/vincent-cerf-accepted-award-from-agbell.html

Don't you dare to mock or defile John Ebgert at all!
http://kokonutpundits.blogspot.com/2010/06/poll-do-you-approve-ab2072-bill.html

Some people need the esteem booster by meeting self-appointed leaders.
http://kokonutpundits.blogspot.com/2010/06/poll-do-you-approve-ab2072-bill.html

How is it good to drill a hole and scrap off skull bone and insert some sort of foreign objection inside the head just to hear well? How is it good to teach "false" language like cued speech to deaf children. How is it good for children with profound hearing loss to learn to speak and hear when it s actually just a guessing game?
http://kokonutpundits.blogspot.com/2010/06/poll-do-you-approve-ab2072-bill.html


I just read RLM’s post linking here. LOL. I must say reading his insane post keeps me sane.
http://kokonutpundits.blogspot.com/2010/06/ag-bell-on-ab2072.html

It's a shame that Edwin Black has also marginalize the history of Jewish people by comparing this AB2072 bill as a possible road to eugenics.
http://kokonutpundits.blogspot.com/2010/06/when-anti-ab2072-group-uses-nazi-labels.html

You or anybody else do not own deaf or hh babies. They are not your "Deaf babies." Nor are they born "Deaf" which is a cultural label to begin with.
http://kokonutpundits.blogspot.com/2010/06/when-anti-ab2072-group-uses-nazi-labels.html

you spend more time going after AGBell than you do promoting ASL.
http://kokonutpundits.blogspot.com/2010/06/when-anti-ab2072-group-uses-nazi-labels.html

Mike, most of us know your reputation being a subtle propagandist to destroy the Deaf community working on the betterment for all deaf babies. you made a choice to negate without going through the journey. again, you don;t want to take this journey and you choose to negate, negate...
http://kokonutpundits.blogspot.com/2010/06/deafhood-afa-and-cad-linked-as.html

That was fun!
http://kokonutpundits.blogspot.com/2010/06/deafhood-afa-and-cad-linked-as.html

John, focus on ASL. Stop spending so much time, energy and effort going after AGBell, CI, and so on. This continues to be your Achilles Heel.
http://kokonutpundits.blogspot.com/2010/06/deafhood-afa-and-cad-linked-as.html

Terminological Terrorism
http://kokonutpundits.blogspot.com/2010/06/deafhood-afa-and-cad-linked-as.html

It's governments and boards that were controlled by white and hearing, STUPID!
http://kokonutpundits.blogspot.com/2010/06/eugenics-of-deaf-indian-sign-language.html


You see David, deaf staffs also played oppressive roles on deaf Indian children back then. This is not news.
http://kokonutpundits.blogspot.com/2010/06/eugenics-of-deaf-indian-sign-language.html

Cute. Trying to shift blame on ASL/Deaf people now, aren't we?
http://kokonutpundits.blogspot.com/2010/06/eugenics-of-deaf-indian-sign-language.html

I will make my vlog about your irresponsible and uncredible article. Mike, I want you to be aware that I'll hold you accountable.
http://kokonutpundits.blogspot.com/2010/06/eugenics-of-deaf-indian-sign-language.html

Hold me accountable? Over what? Do you know what a "thought exercise" is about?
http://kokonutpundits.blogspot.com/2010/06/eugenics-of-deaf-indian-sign-language.html

I've monitored him for two years now and can safely assure you. He's so stuck inside of a closed society where people's thoughts are tightly regulated.
http://kokonutpundits.blogspot.com/2010/06/eugenics-of-deaf-indian-sign-language.html

Yeah, it made me smile and also very excited to read this blog and then having heavy sadness for both Native Indian and deaf communities. Oh well, at least I know that we're all okay- just as human beings.
http://kokonutpundits.blogspot.com/2010/06/asl-thrives-isl-dies-and-gets-pushed.html

I’m still waiting for Ebonics sign language to materialize from the black Deaf community so they wouldn't wanted to put up with whitey ASL no more.
http://kokonutpundits.blogspot.com/2010/06/asl-thrives-isl-dies-and-gets-pushed.html

Zombieland!

Aargh! (a zombie scream)

Over the past several years I have progressively become one of the more well known deaf/hh bloggers by those who like to read blogs. Over time I knew I’d be delving deeper into the seemingly quixotic ideals of the Deaf world with each deaf-related topic I write. A topic that would either send people howling and convulsing along with the gnashing of their teeth, or have them nod their heads with understanding and concurrence. Maybe even get a chuckle or two from readers. Yet, what I've witnessed has become a paradoxically funny turn of events in an odd sort of way seeing how some people objected to on how I write my blogs almost as if they’re demanding that their own sensitive sensibilities not be violated. Well, no one forced them to read my blogs if they are THAT sensitive to begin with. Why bother reading them if you disagree with them and that you get upset easily? Maybe a little sunlight here and there helps?

Aargh!

I’m not a Deaf blogger but a blogger who happens to have a hearing loss. No need for a feel good label. I’m “a nationally known professional patriotic purveyor of highly entertaining and informative blogging” or so says the title description seen in my blog which describes me pretty accurately I suppose. What I write is my own artful expression of what I want to discuss what's on my mind. But this isn't the first time when people have gotten upset over my writings. This has been going on since I started blogging in back in 2004. Yet, realize that each of us bloggers carries certain strength to the community whether it’s the deaf/hh communities or the Deaf community. But to blog is to express oneself in a variety of ways. Yet some people tend to convulse a bit now and then. 

Aargh!

Next, this whole “anti-deafhood” claim is getting a bit out of touch with reality here when it was simply about how people have politicized “deafhood” that people disagree with.  It was a philosophical concept that was contrived and invented as a feel good word to muck about with.  Remember that paradoxically funny turn of events I said earlier? Well, this is one of them when people get upset whenever Deaf, deaf or hard of hearing people who speak up up on how they don't care for the word. Some disagree with the word seeing it as the equivalent as someone inventing the word "blindhood" or "intellectually-challengedhood" or "wheelchairhood" or whatever other nonsense words to be contrived, manipulated, and mangled like once fresh human beings turned into zombies with appendages and bodyparts falling off. And whenever people disagree over something, then they're labeled "anti" something. If I disagree with the word "blindhood" and then suddenly you get people go on the warpath screaming with zombie-like expressions with fingers pointing at you with large eyes and gaping mouths, "You anti-blindhood! You anti-AFA! You anti-deafhood!" Whatever. Maybe we're just a bunch of pro-common sense people to begin with?  Instead people vulgarize the word constantly. You know, zombie-like vulgarization.

Aargh!

I’ve also seen how people attempt to use “social guilt” in the effort to somehow “control” or "influence" how people should write, think or say (e.g. “anti-this” and “anti-that”). Rather than agree to disagree people go overboard using “social guilt” to push their own brand of agenda around. I’ve seen how people are easily misled by false claims or myths like how faulty cochlear implants have shocked children as if it was a wide spread problem. That is an example of an (highly) exaggerated claim since about 1/10th of 1 percent of implanted children in one case study (922 patients) experienced “shocking sensation” (rather than “shocked children” since it envisions a picture of kids gettting shocked like sticking a fork into an outlet plug or something). In that case study I mentioned only 1 patient experienced that “hard failure” of getting that "shocking sensation" from an implant as reported in a recent 2008 Otology & Neurotology report. What's next? Cochlear implants will turn kids into little zombie runts?

Aargh!

Oh, by the way, be sure to buy your latest zombie wig to go with your upcoming zombie Halloween outfit. There's nothing scarier than a zombie with a blond wig!

Aargh!

Vinton Cerf accepted award from AGBell !

Vinton Cerf as some of you may know is the "Father of the Internet." He is also deaf. But here is probably a little known fact among those in the Deaf community. Vinton Cerf was awarded the Alexander Graham Bell Medal for his contribution on the internet. AGBell recognized Vinton Cerf's extra-ordinary contribution in helping build the first ever internet. The real surprise is that this medal award took place 13 years ago. Maybe it's time that the Deaf community demand that Vinton Cerf return his AGBell medal back to AGBell? And if Vinton Cerf refuses to return his medal back to AGBell then perhaps the Deaf community ought to stage a boycott against using the internet as a show of solidiarity hoping that Vinton Cerf will cave into their demands?

Yeah, I bet you wouldn't.

(correction: changed "Vincent" to "Vinton" which is his correct first name).

Money donated to "Deafhood? No thanks" Facebook group

In a surprise move that came out of the blue a somewhat mysterious donor is in the process of donating $656 to a newly established Facebook group called "Deafhood? No thanks." It was explained that the money to be donated is contingent on seeing membership hit 400 members, which could happen sometime today. This somewhat large sum of money came as an unexpected surprise never thinking this sort of thing would ever happen. Of course, by the time you're done reading this you might be kicking yourself.