The new deaf generation....speaking and listening

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DeafCaroline said:
so carry your little outraged indignant act elsewhere. you clearly have no idea what some people go through for being deaf.
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Thank you for proving my point that you also have no idea what blacks in Mississippi went through in the 60s for being black. ;)

It's not a matter of 'not knowing' deaf history. It is a matter of knowing and understanding and respecting the differences of different people as they struggle against a majority power.
 
sallylou said:
"Defective" children used to be hidden away of institutionalized not far back. You're young and apparently aren't familar with society's past.
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Again, 100% true. I bet it's still being done in some schools today.
 
AlleyCat said:
Oh, and the Torah way either does or doesn't include those who sound funny from Minnesota or Georgia.

Hey, who here said they had chill pills ?? Somebody mentioned it the other day.
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I think it was OB? I wonder if she has any left.
 
TheOracle said:
Yeah, and if Hitler had gotten a little further, I wouldn't be a Jewish woman in Denver.

Your point?
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Oh, if you really are Jewish, you should develop more empathy for others who are oppressed. All of the Jews I know and am associated with exhibit it. It's the way of the Torah.;)
 
You can't rate pain and mistreatment on a scale. It also divides and conquers because it becomes the oppression olympics.
 
TheOracle said:
Thank you for proving my point that you also have no idea what blacks in Mississippi went through in the 60s for being black. ;)

It's not a matter of 'not knowing' deaf history. It is a matter of knowing and understanding and respecting the differences of different people as they struggle against a majority power.
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holy shi....ok, whatever oracle.
 
posts from hell said:
If you failed to see my point, you need to learn Deaf history before you come in here trying to slug some stuff around.
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If you have to say things like "Holocaust" or "Civil Rights" or "Selma" to generate sympathy for your voice off positions, maybe you should re-think your marketing skills and get your own damned language. I believe you have a phrase called 'audism', no?

Matt, you know know full well what I know and how I feel about deaf issues...but you want to score brownie points on AD for arguing. Okay. You do that.
 
AlleyCat said:
Oh, and the Torah way either does or doesn't include those who sound funny from Minnesota or Georgia.

Hey, who here said they had chill pills ?? Somebody mentioned it the other day.
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I forget who mentioned it, but I think OB offered to share hers.:lol:
 
One thing to keep in mind: things are NOT relative.
 
DeafCaroline said:
holy shi....ok, whatever oracle.
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Yeah, this has gotten absurd. :lol: All because a white person took offense to Deaf oppression being compared to oppression of the Blacks. I am the one that made the comparison, and I'm as much Black as I am Jewish!:lol:
 
Banjo said:
Do you?
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Nope, and I'm not black, so I don't try to take someone else's cause and make it mine to be dramatic.

If I have an issue - say, my issues with Hispanics in Denver and the struggles with race - then I make it about that issue, not something that Hollywood has glamorized for a couple of bucks. I don't say "this is just as bad as..." Instead, I say, "This is bad BECAUSE __________."

I believe in liberty. That applies to everyone - deaf, straight, gay, immigrant, whatever. So if I am giving a lecture on race issues for a class, I may point out feelings of fear and ethnocentric-ism, but I keep immigration separate from MLK. I also don't invoke the Holocaust when I talk about Israel or Judaism and I don't say that people avoid deaf guys because they think deaf are gang-banging, gun-toting oversexed men...that's a different kind of ignorance.
 
AlleyCat said:
One thing to keep in mind: things are NOT relative.
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Meaning just because one race, sex, gender, disability encountered oppression and/or a multitude of things, doesn't make it worse or better than of someone/thing else.
 
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