but of course they do...
Posted on 12/23/2007 1:20:17 PM PST by FreedomCalls
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Would deaf parents have aborted Beethoven?
Praises be, oh Offendi! I will take six with a club-foot; four with a hairlip, and three Thalidomide Specials.
I was afraid the begging business was going to die out with me, and that my street corner spaces would have to sold at auction; they has been in the family for 16 generations.
Why not just teach the child to sign and have it’s hearing intact too?
Dumb idiots.
That is exactly what it is. Children that can hear would have no problems learning sign language if they had to.
“I SAID, GET OFF THE TRACKS! THERE’S A TRAIN BEHI...”
Oh, well; I tried.
“Hello, 911? I’d like to report...”
You never see blind people bragging about their culture; when was the last time you heard canes clapping?
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but of course they do...
Can ya read that oh selfish ones?
However, I can understand why the deaf couple in question would want to have their children to be deaf. In a world where deaf people are routinely discriminated against and where we are treated as second class citizens, I really cannot blame them for wanting to have a deaf child they feel they could "connect" with.
If our society was a bit more open-minded and treated deafness as a "culutral difference" rather than the stringent medical terminology that we are disabled, then things would be different and the deaf couple may feel more comfortable in having a "normal" hearing child.
I don’t believe my ears.
Pro-Life/Moral Absolutes/?!?!?!?! ping.
Building a new caste system.
It's a brave, new world.
A strange case of "reverse" eugenics? Who knows?
Imho, there are parallel universes.
5.56mm
Utter lunacy! Not to mention cruel. They should be told to take their idiotic idea and “stick it where the sun don’t shine”!
I wish we all had to learn basic sign language. I use my hands a lot when I talk, but they never say anything. I am also not surprised by any of this. Without a basic respect for human life, no one, no one, is safe. We are without value.
You get deafness removed from the list of afflictions that Social Security pays disability for, get it removed from any protections the Americans with Disabilities Act provides, or any other tax-supported government intervention -- then we can talk. Until then it is not just "a cultural difference", it is a disability.
as crazy as it sounds...it’s not an anomaly. Here in the Wash DC area we have a large deaf community, thanks in part to Gallaudet. Deafness is treated more like another “race” than a hindrance or handicap. Families in the deaf society are even revered more highly depending on how many generations “deaf” they are. I can’t begin to understand this...
I agree that deafness should not be used as a disabled condition to collect Social Security. The problem is that the federal government gives too many handouts, and deaf people are not the only group.
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