MEDIA WATCH: Hearing People Still Don’t Get It! Or Do They? No They Don’t!
In between the knuckle dragging in 10, 000 BC, and the brain lagging in 2008, hearing people underwent a rapid development in all areas of art, love and philosophy. Evidence of this creative and progressive expression can be found all over the internet.
Shakespeare’s progeny continue to churn out literature that defiles the intelligence of the Bard himself. The mastery of the authors who penned Clause 14 (4) (9), in the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill, surpasses the Bard’s Tragedies, Histories, Poems, Apocryphas, and in the process breaking new ground in Comedies. Divinely inspired, the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill, has in turn inspired legions of hearing people to heed the word. The call.
In a rallying call to the sermon relayed by BBC’s Radio 4, Today programme, the congregation has been fitfully amenning and hallelujahing [there's no such words I know, but it does describe best, the depth of the religious experience being expressed]. A Transcript for the programme, The Right To be Deaf (BBC Radio Four) can be found here, courtesy of the good folks at STOP EUGENICS. A transcript was brought to you by STOP EUGENICS, as a health measure, to alleviate the ill effects of sound fatigue that would result from trying to listen to the podcast.
Led by the Tubs Of Lard, this errant congregationer, was overwhelmed by the profound insights as expressed, such as:
While there are good things that deaf people can experience that hearing ons may not - I’ve known enough deaf people to recognise that it has definite disadvantages and problems that signing and so on can’t address.
People! This is serious spiritual stuff. Akin to a visitation from the Holy Spirit. A rare moment, where knuckles stopped dragging, and in the lift in supplication to the Great God Tubs Of Lard, slam dunk right into their forehead, causing a further lull in the brain. Causing the expression of exclamations:
Deafness is not a culture per se, it is a culture that has arisen purely in response to a physical disability. Deafness is disability because it is the LACK of an ability - ie, the ability to hear.
To which one can respond with:
Hearing is not a culture per se, it is a culture that has arisen purely in response to a physical ability. Hearing is an ability because it is the LACK of an disability - i.e., the inability to be deaf.
To which the only appropriate response is:
“Duh!”
The real reason why hearing people are pushing us deafies to have cochlear implants, is to give us the opportunity to embrace the sounds of their knuckles scraping the pavement, due to drag, and to better appreciate the silence, in the lull of their brains lagging.
Further Reading:
Designing Babies
This Couple Want A Deaf Child. Should We Try To Stop Them?
This Couple Want A Deaf Child. Should We Try To Stop Them?
Hearing People Demand The Right To Self Designed Babies
Children Demand Right To Not Stupid Parents
Deaf Demand Right To Designer Deaf Children
Deaf Parents Demand Right To Deaf Children
Deaf Demand Right To Designer Deaf Children
Engineering Deaf Babies For Deaf Couples US and Britain Debate The Selection Of Deaf Embryos and Adopted Children
Deaf Demand Right To Designer Deaf Children
Deaf Demand Right To Designer Deaf Children
The Last Deafie Signing!
Media Watch: Hearing People Still Don’t Get It! Part Two
Media Watch: Hearing People Still Don’t Get It!
Not quite with the Times
Sunday Times article & my communication with the Sunday Times
March 11th, 2008 at 1:15 am
Point taken, but i never liked satire… cheapens your mission.
March 11th, 2008 at 4:44 am
Yeh, just like when hearing people comment on things they don’t understand or pretend to have a depth of knowledge and understanding about something they don’t know much about, they cheapen themselves!
March 12th, 2008 at 7:27 am
It worries me that the discriminatory foundations of this Bill have been glossed over in much of this debate. This policy clearly states that a child without a ’serious illness’ must be automatically preferred to a one that does have one (or indeed, a risk of developing one). This is clear discrimination and implies that a Deaf life is one not worth living. If this legislation is passed a precedent of statutory interpretation will have been established – that deafness is indeed a ‘serious illness’. In future what other ‘conditions’ may be eradicated in this way? This medical conception of deafness is a narrow-minded denial of the richness and value of Deaf culture and community.
Deaf persons have many unique qualities to offer the rest of the world – can many hearing people claim to be able to attend an international conference and be able to communicate with any person of any nationality? Deaf persons can through adapting their beautiful and flexible language. Far from being isolated and lonely individuals, each Deaf person may become a member of a vast global community if they wish to do so.
Clause 14 should be recognised for what it is – yet another thinly veiled attempt to eradicate Deaf persons, motivated by economics. The brave parents at the heart of this debate are not seeking to ‘engineer’ a ‘designer baby’. The embryo is deaf, it already exists. They are simply saying that they would deeply love and cherish a child that others may see as disabled. What is so very terrible about that?