A discussion vlog: Carl Schroeder explains that Church people and believers used to say no to Galileo Galilei's discovery in the 16-17th century that the earth rotates around the sun. Today there are certain people who say no to Audism, the term indicating that it's better to hear than to be Deaf.
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6 comments:
Words – so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become. I say that the word of "Audism" should be allowed to be in dictionary. it is powerful word.
If they have come to help us, they are wasting our time. But if they have come because their liberation is bound up with us then let us work together.
Look at Shakespeare, it was said that he created thousands of words in a dictionary. Why not us Deaf people create this word? Let us be Shakespearean for once and all.
I was very glad to own the documentary film.
Shakespere was mostly unintelligible ! He actually included the word 'undeaf' as well. The pen IS mightier than the sword, it has killed more people I think. I don't really go with 'Audism' OK if deaf want their own word for discrimination that's up to them,but as with most words created, they usually end up doing the very thing they are designed not to, that is divide again. There is no accounting for how a word may be used, just like when the gun was invented, it may have been primarily for defence, but it was often used for the exact opposite. People are the problem :)
.... and the Pope finally issued an apology to Galileo 350 years after his death in October 1992!
Forgot to add the quote from Cratylus: "...whoever knows names will know things also." (Cratylus 435e)
BR,
The Vactian surely persecuted Galieo and other scientists for their scientific validity. They also imprisioned several scientists via house arrest
and formal blacklisting, etc.
The simple apology from the Church would be not truly sufficient.
The Vactian is surely the SOB!
RLM
I know what you mean by that. My point that we should be Shakespearean not just because we are unintelligible. We need to set an example.
I think that to believe people is to believe in the future. Through their aspirations they will save the world. With their combined knowledge the turbulent seas of hate and injustice will be calmed.
They will champion the causes of life's underdogs, forging a society without class discrimination. They will supply humanity with music and beauty as it has never known.
If we do that, we can supply the Deaf people with tools and knowledge to overcome the obstacles.
Yes, I know Shakespeare used 'undeaf' or 'heedless' but my point is that we need to pass on the wisdom of our years and temper it with patience.
Again, I recognize that the English language is being augmented every year by about 400 new words. We cannot cope it. We are drowning in the plethora. It’s far better to possess a small vocabulary that we use properly rather than a big vocabulary with which we’re a bit impressionistic. There’s a danger for the English language to be known rather inexactly.
One of my favorite sociologists, Jean Baudrillard quoted:
Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence.
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