For some, there is no such thing as joy.
Felt slightly guilty about posting the previous link - though I still do rather believe that vapid monster-mother's anti-tattoo tirade is probably genuine, it was rightly pointed out that the Grauniad would not be above hosting it to troll up a bit of response.

But this article, I am plumb-certain the shrieking buerk really believes in: you know that clip of Joanne Milne? The one where she is over-come by the joy of hearing for the first time - a clip of transparently genuine emotion, that touched the vacuous emptiness of even my bitter old soul?

Well, watching/sharing that clip means you hate deaf people.

Because yeah.

The basic line of argument appears to be that all people watching/sharing that clip believe that all deaf people are 'broken' and that all deaf people can be 'fixed.' For lazy people, here are some choice bits:

*the "deaf person hears for the first time" videos don't make me smile. They make me want to throw my computer out a window.

*Note: writing Deaf with a capital D separates people who can't hear from people who consider deafness a major part of their cultural and political identity.

*So what do these videos say to a deaf person who does not want or cannot have the implant? They say, "this other person is healed now, but you will always be broken."

*viral videos aren't about the people who are in them, they're about the people who watch them. It's much easier to look at a 60-second "uplifting" video and tear up and feel really good about yourself for sharing a post to Facebook than it is to learn anything meaningful about the lives of Deaf individuals around the world

Read the full wobbly piece of tripe here.

I don't see anyone making and larger assumptions about deaf people than the militant CODA joy-leech is making about the people watching/sharing the link! And the idea that the link portrays Joanne as walking away with 'fixed' hearing is utter T-Rex shit.

While this bint has no credence in my eyes (ears?) I know she really does mean it. My own hearing hovering between shite and poor, I have run across this attitude before.

The deaf community can indeed be a close, wonderful community with its own language and richness - however, as medical science comes up with clever things like cochlear implants, the petty militants lash out in fear of their shrinking world; I've even heard of people like Joanne being ostracised for trying the implants.

No-one wants to admit being imperfect, but this is B3TA - if we are visiting here, its a pretty good bet we are all already raggy doll broken (but with more outrageous lyrics). So should we, in an orgy of bloody-mindedness, rip off our glasses and grope around helplessly, rather than lose the rich, blurry world of the shitty-sighted? If your leg don't work no more, wouldn't you just call it 'broken'?

Proves that when there is uncomplicated joy, someone somewhere will find a way to object to it. Sad.
(IChewCandlewax, Tue 1 Apr 2014, 12:48, 20 replies)

What a fucking joy vacuum

(Captain Placid 24/7 ball gags, brownie mix and clown porn, Tue 1 Apr 2014, 12:57, closed)

Think:
Typing whilst angry causes gibberish.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Tue 1 Apr 2014, 13:17, closed)

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( drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Tue 1 Apr 2014, 13:31, closed)

I don't know why I'm reminded of this, but I am:
youtu.be/oEOsTi1BeRI?t=2m25s
(eViLegion Chief Commissioner of the Scottish Lunacy Board, Tue 1 Apr 2014, 13:41, closed)

LALALA I CAN'T HEAR YOU!

( stuj (^(^;;^)^) GO TEAM SPIDERS!(^(^;;^)^), Tue 1 Apr 2014, 14:10, closed)

eh

( d.r._and_quinch when will you be famous?, Tue 1 Apr 2014, 14:58, closed)

Hello The LOVELY sammi.
:D
( stuj (^(^;;^)^) GO TEAM SPIDERS!(^(^;;^)^), Wed 2 Apr 2014, 0:56, closed)

Thing is though, some deaf people have been persecuted.
I know people who went through years of being taught the oral method (not as fun as it sounds), meaning hours of learning by rote to imitate sounds they never expected to hear. They were banned from signing even in their free time (these were often residential settings, so that's 24/7); this was enforced the same as other school rule breaking e.g. with corporal punishment before it was banned. This learning was at the expense of other education i.e. all the time you spent on learning the foundations of whatever you do for fun or money, they spent learning to say "b" so a hearing person could kinda understand. You could say their whole education was about how they were broken & needed to be fixed.
And after all that work, many deaf people still can't be easily understood & rely on interpreters, because almost all of us could learn a bit of basic sign, but how many of us have?
(sarcastic fringehead feet of clay, buns of steel, head of lettuce, Tue 1 Apr 2014, 19:00, closed)

Meh, fuck 'em if they can't take a joke.
It's not like they were being sent to the camps now, is it?
( stuj (^(^;;^)^) GO TEAM SPIDERS!(^(^;;^)^), Wed 2 Apr 2014, 0:55, closed)

hi de hi
*silence*
(sarcastic fringehead feet of clay, buns of steel, head of lettuce, Wed 2 Apr 2014, 13:57, closed)

Pfffft.
:D
( stuj (^(^;;^)^) GO TEAM SPIDERS!(^(^;;^)^), Wed 2 Apr 2014, 17:44, closed)

I'd ask my favourite blind person about this.
Sadly he's off in Africa helping people but once he regains contact I'll make some real progress into whether something is a disability or not.
(Me, I'm not... in any way intoxicated, Tue 1 Apr 2014, 19:12, closed)

don't be stupid.
blind people can't get to the shops, never mind africa.
( janet aylia y'all motherfuckers need jesus, Wed 2 Apr 2014, 21:22, closed)

A quick Google
And it looks like this woman has built a career on creating seethe-bait. Like reading only books by women authors to highlight the gender inequality in publishing zzzzzzzzzzzz.

With any luck ignoring her will make her go away.
( Snappyuk gets BIGGER with free sample., Tue 1 Apr 2014, 19:43, closed)

Not as quickly as SETTING HER ON FIRE.

( stuj (^(^;;^)^) GO TEAM SPIDERS!(^(^;;^)^), Wed 2 Apr 2014, 0:57, closed)

Pardon?

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Tue 1 Apr 2014, 21:17, closed)

American tourists
There are some complete barking nutters in the deaf (and particularly Deaf) communities. I have seen the fitting of cochlear implants described, quite seriously, as "an act of cultural genocide against the Deaf", which certainly puts all those dead jews, gays and gypsies in context.

On the other hand, there are many, many more sensible, passionate, helpful and, well, just normal, people in the deaf/Deaf world who just don't get as much attention as the dingbats.
(ubergeekian, Wed 2 Apr 2014, 0:13, closed)

Tis faintly ironic
that the sensible folk are drowned out by the dingbats, as the deaf militants are usually the ones shouting loudest. Deaf joke just waiting to happen, there.

Shouty militants on their little fearquests... Pity they get the attention, but if they appear passionate enough, people listen. Its human nature - the same impulse that makes the Joanne clip newsworthy.
(IChewCandlewax, Wed 2 Apr 2014, 10:37, closed)

Reminds me of Laurie Penny
Another self-regarding bore machine.
( the_other_jeff_lebowski Croutons on my tits, Wed 2 Apr 2014, 8:42, closed)

if it wasn't for deaf people then,
I'd never have spent a mildly amusing 4 mins and 1 second of my life enjoying this www.liveleak.com/view?i=e49_1311191990

Go deaf people and your crazy ways!
( sneep used to date Freddie Starr's hamster, Thu 3 Apr 2014, 1:31, closed)