Right!
If deaf/capital 'D' want respect then they have to respect people who are oral or use cochlear implants. One must practice what one preaches.. If a deaf choose mainstream education, "You're an audist", if a deaf person choose to go by oral and not signs then "you're an audist", if a deaf person choose to have a cochlear implant then "you're an audist". It seems as though the term has become a way to say that "I don't agree with you and ASL should be the only way for deaf people, not speech, not lip-reading not SEE. " You see what I mean? I see that word "audist" many times when browsing through the board especially during controversial deaf issues.
What about the time at Gallaudet University when King Jordan announced his resignation, and the school provost Jane K. Fernandes would take his place. What happened?, oh yea the students of Gallaudet began rallying against her, because she wasn't deaf enough to hold such an important seat as being the President of Gallaudet. So the group of students were allowed to discriminate against Jane K Fernandes just because she didn't fit the mold of their culture. If you don't like to be discriminated, then don't discriminated anyone like Jane K Fernandes.
We all have differences, nobody is superior, I don't consider myself better than others just because I can speak, lip-read and sign. I do consider myself equal as much as all of you. 
Just my two cents.
