You got a good point about allowing audism among us, while asking hearing people to ban it, didn't think about it. Agree with Shel90 about supporting audism, too.
The reason for my doubt, is that we got a debate raging in europe on allowing parts of Islam in public spaces or not, and if muslims should accept caricatures of the prophet muhammad. Many muslims are asking to ban every caricature of Muhammad in the name of blasphemy, but it don't work as europe is used to mocking religions. It still looks to me like muslims are benefitting from this, and western seculars are starting to understand Islam better. It's something with growing from controversy to do. I feel somehow that hearing people have the right to ask us why hearing values aren't superior to deaf values, and that we can handle it very well. If the word audism becomes as widely known as deaf, it will be much more easy to make it immoral. This is also why I think AFA is such a good idea.
As for hearings debating, I know that the intentions are the best, but somehow hearings who are pro ASL seem to attract hearing oralists. It's typical to see parents who raise deaf children different accuse others of wrong doings, the same for professonials working in deaf education, they seem to be more focused on technique, speech vs ASL, than deaf deaf teachers. This is perhaps not an easy topic, as some of them really are a part of the deaf community, and much valued. The problem is that it looks like deaf people are enaged into a ASL vs speech debate, while we really not is, and hearings debating on this becomes a bit audistic to me. Sorry if I made it sound like I don't welcome hearing people into the deaf community!
