Posted on 04/29/2017 6:41:06 AM PDT by Zakeet
Seems to me the jazz hands waving around will only confuse the deaf as they cant see what everybody is excited about...
This is the craziness of the left and it will never stop.
That’s an excellent point.
In any case, can’t the deaf see people clapping? Can’t they see people “whooping” and whatever? You don’t need to be able to hear to figure out what is going on.
On the other hand, as you pointed out, if they are at an event that requires being able to hear to know what is going on, it’s not the clapping that is a problem for deaf people.
Better still, take away the money for visual arts in new buildings and listen to ‘em squeal.
I attended a talent review show at the South Carolina School for the Deaf and Blind a few years ago. I was amazed at the students skillfully performed presentations and was shocked at how demonstrative their display of appreciation was. These Student Union idiots know nothing.
In today’s world of Political Correctness you never know if something is real or satire.
The deaf would see all that waving and think whatever it is was over and they would just walk out...
Dictatorship of the minority. I’ll bet it wasn’t put to the student body for a vote. this is just that school’s elite of the elite flexing their muscle to see just what they can get away with in controlling those that they consider sub-human.
+1 for “intersectionality” concern :-)
Ban all movies concerts and plays then, same with funding for visual arts.
Exploits and excludes blind deaf and dumb.
Put it all into orgies for everyone funding. /s
This is the central flaw of progressivism: it never knows when to stop. It is totalitarian by nature.
There is a point of stupidity where one is compelled to become seriously concerned about the corruption of the gene pool.
Has anyone mentioned to these loons that being deaf does not prevent one from applauding? They may not be able to hear it, but they can certainly participate.
And how many deaf people are there these days anyway in the developed world? Okay, I just looked it up for the UK:
United Kingdom (England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland)
Number: “Government figures put this at 70,000 profoundly deaf people.” (May 2010)
—Got this from
http://libguides.gallaudet.edu/content.php?
pid=119476&sid=1061103
I thought deaf people could feel vibrations from sounds, especially loud sounds like a lot of people clapping or cheering. Plus, unless they are like Helen Keller, they can see others applauding.
um... they can see people clapping just as easily as they see them doing jazz hands...
this makes no sense.
Bureau of the Census has made its own estimates for both deaf and hard of hearing populations in each of the 50 U.S.
Deaf (definition: “in both ears” 421,000 0.18%
Deaf (definition: “cannot hear and understand any speech” 552,000 0.23%
Deaf (definition: “at best, can hear and understand words shouted into the better ear”) 1,152,000 0.49%
http://libguides.gallaudet.edu/content.php?pid=119476&sid=1029190
Eating, drinking and breathing excludes dead people, so those activities should be banned, too.
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