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Originally Posted by Hermes
I am not sure what this means. Do you use a doctor to play a doctor character, do you choice a Christian if the character is Christian, do you hire a liberal if the character is liberal, or do you select a gay person if the character is gay in the movie? Actors act, they do not represent their real selves. What does it have to do with looking down at somebody?
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Kalista meant that the word "retard" for the Deaf character or any disabilities, not Down's syndrome. We are not retarded and we are smart and can live and do many things as what hearing people live. As I know we do have some real Deaf people play the Deaf characters to portray what is like living in a Deaf world in the movies. But if hearing people portray as a Deaf person, they don't know what is like to be Deaf and also think that Deaf people don't know how to do things like hearing people are doing except to hear. So they gave us a bad name which we don't approve of. It is like looking down on us as if we are nothing important to them and that is discrimination, period.
