A discussion vlog: Carl Schroeder comments on a phrase that one of his YouTube commentors, RachelQZ, writes to suppress and oppress the Deaf into respecting and accepting oral programs, cued speech, and all other failed programs. We the Deaf are forced to be diverse and be stuck!
Saturday, June 20, 2009
RachelQZ: the DIVERSE deaf community?
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Oral users want signers to do more of that so they can follow them, signers want more people signing so they get their inclusion, both are hamstrung by their own mode and mostly unable to compromise.
Diversity DOES include those who demand it, get stuck in too. Carl is right in pointing out those who advocate diversity, while at the same time paying only 'lip-service' to it, make no positive contribution to anything much. let alone diversity.
Deaf are a minority, signers in that area more so, so they will obviously feel quite marginalised anyway. If we are talking basics, oralists CAN learn some useful degree of sign easier, where 'Deaf' cannot oralise at all in many parts, the mechanism isn't there..
I think that is the main difference, thus demanding acceptances that go just one way is never going to work. Until wider sign use is seen (!), then we cannot adjudge if the 'Deaf' are, or are not, willing to grasp the opportunity of being really diverse..
They are diverse within their own 'sphere', perhaps that's enough for them.. it can seem inadvertently to look like they prefer to not bother, they might address that aspect. It's a communication not a cultural issue, it was never culture at the root of anything.
We fear what we do not understand, that goes for others communication too.
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