Conspiracy Against Deaf

Friday, June 20, 2014 SPORK! 0 Comments

It is not a hearing loss, or hearing impairment, or hard-of-hearing, it is a Variation of Deafness. By reframing the semantics and epistemological approach to the discourse, we can change the hegemony of ruling elite who profit from current taxonomy of our Deaf Ethnicity and Deaf Culture as a medical deficit, or even moral deficit. Deaf is Linguistic Minority. The hair cells on my inner ear are structured differently. I therefore have a diverse perspective of sound. Current pedagogical practice in our education of medical professionals, who deem themselves as authorities over our bodies, is to view Deaf as bad. So they then authorize themselves to commercialize and capitalize by exploiting and oppressing the Deaf with their resulting praxis of audism.

The ontologlies of the Deaf need to be respected and heeded. ASL for all. Bilingualism. Deaf teachers for every school. Deaf politicians. Visual access to all public audio in buildings regulated by ADA. If they are equipped with voice public address systems, they should have LED overhead scrolling text message displays.

The epistemic violence enacted on Deaf community by banning sign language, removing Deaf teachers, mainstreaming into Oralism, hearing aids, lipreading, cochlear implants in babies and denying them access to sign language, genetic engineering, and also the denial of equal human rights through forced sterilization, illegal for deaf to marry deaf, deaf could not own property, and deaf could not get drivers license. This is Deaf history in America.

Deaf students caught signing had their hands tied behind backs, or strapped down overnight while sleeping if caught signing after bedtime in Oral residential schools, and hands were hit with rulers and sticks. Deaf children’s mouths were poked with teachers fingers during useless speech therapy instead of actually learning meaningful content and material such as history or math, subsequently getting pushed further behind. Perpetuating the notion of inferior or disabled. Disability, by the way, is caused by lack of accommodation. Being deaf, in itself, is not a disability. Audism can end when people learn that Deaf is a Diversity, not a Disability...

Read the full article at Brother Yellow 

http://brotheryellow.com/2014/05/15/conspiracy-against-deaf/