Just because YOU don’t see the pervasive discrimination we experience, that doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist!
Just because WE can’t hear, doesn’t make us any less capable. You don’t get to decide what is in OUR best interest!
Just because many of us are disempowered into silence, doesn’t mean you can discriminate against us freely!
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No really. I’ve removed names for privacy as this isn’t about any of these individuals personally, but rather the social/cultural context of this discourse. Here are the highlights for those of you without the ability to see the image posted below:
“I wonder how useful an Auslan interpreter would be in this situation (ACDC’s Highway to Hell being interpreted live with Auslan interpreter). If someone is completely deaf, then I doubt they would be going to a rock concert, and even if they’re partially deaf ACDC aren’t exactly well-known for creative or poetic lyrics… I guess an ACDC fan who has acquired hearing loss might get value from it. “
“Yeah, I understand that. But again I was referring specifically to ACDC’s lyrics. Most of what you’ve said (atmosphere, cultural icon, vibrations, experience) have nothing to do with the lyrics, which are being interpreted. IE the interpreter doesn’t add much that a deaf person couldn’t get otherwise.“
“Like I said, it’s great that the event is inclusive, and probably most of the value of having the interpreters there is from that (being inclusive) because there isn’t any real need to understand the lyrics to ACDC songs. “
“you don’t know me at all, and you’ve made some very wild assumptions about who you think I am. I am a hearing person, ignorant of the needs of deaf people and actively trying to understand. You should note that my comment started with the words “I wonder…” I was not making definitive “decisions”, but asking questions and trying to understand. (Person Three) helpfully pointed out some of the benefits that I had not considered… which I was grateful for, as this was the very reason I was asking the questions, as I wanted to understand, and I acknowledged and accepted her points. “
Basically, a hearing person with hearing privilege made a massive social blunder by sharing his thoughts without his brain – mouth filter in place.
When called out on it, he appeared to cover for his social blunder with the presumptuousness that many of us are familiar with from men raised in a patriarchy. It didn’t just stop there though. This person deflected by saying he didn’t make any statements and was just wondering which was referring to his original comment and not the following comment which was raised. It was a good example of minimising and redirecting the focus that was put on his comments.
On the upside he did apologise later on.
I don’t see deaf people anywhere wondering why there is audio on tv sets or video clips on youtube. Really. Yeah, REALLY!
– deaf in Society
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