MEDIA WATCH: Tidish Boom!
The following interview, BBC Radio 5 Live’s The Victoria Derbyshire Show,the transcript which was once again provided by Jen Dodds and her network, is a really good one. Well worth reading.
You know, as one dimensional as the reportage has been, there are nuggets of pure gold, that heartens a Deafie. The following quote, a Freudian slip [read the interview for the context and how it was expressed], is possible the best summation of the hearie position, regarding the Human Embryo and Fertilisation Bill in particular, and deafness in general:
Ken – Why would I want to… Why would I go and learn sign language and learn to lip-read, just because I can? I’ve got other things to do in life. I’ve got children to bring up, I’ve got work to do, I don’t have time to do these things.
But he got told off:
Richard – Then move on and let somebody else do it. Plenty of people would be quite happy to spend some wonderful time talking, guiding deaf people who have no real problem communicating whether they can hear or not. You haven’t had any experience of that.
STOP EUGENICS is doing such a top notch job. Go read STOP EUGENICS and the BBC Radio 5 Live’s The Victoria Derbyshire Show transcript!
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