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Originally Posted by Deaf258
Ella is one of the most respected people specializing in ASL. I wouldn't knock on her if I were you. If you have used Signing Naturally ASL books, you'd recognize her. Right or wrong, she has a good sense of making points to encourage Deaf people to think and be more independent. The reason for her vlog about 'It Hurts.' was that often, hearing, oral deaf and some hard of hearing (non-signers) people oppressed several Deaf bloggers to caption their vlogs. What's the result?? Fewer Deaf people are making vlogs while many others don't want to be hurt or disappointed by their hearing peers.
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I do recognize her, and I'm not "knocking on her". But appeal to authority is still a logical fallacy. Like the other people here, I don't think vlogs can (or should) be forced to be captioned; but I do think it's the right thing to do.
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Eye for an eye?? HELLO!?! Deaf people have been trying to communicate with hearing people for at least 3,000 years. Pray tell, when will the hearing people (in general) actually start paying attention and listen to us!?!? If you're hearing, that's great you are paying attention to us, but that's one hearing person out of millions.. Hearing people have been blind to us for so long. I don't think I would see Deaf people being treated EQUALLY among family, friends and coworkers in my lifetime. Granted, it may take another 500 to 1,000 years before that actually happens!
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I'm not hearing. I didn't grow up signing, but I am most certainly not hearing. As you say, Deaf people have been trying to communicate with hearing. But cutting lines of communication doesn't help that. Look at it like this: if past communication attempts were on an individual level, vlogging gives the opportunity to share a mass message, to share information not about *one* deaf person, but about the whole Deaf world. It's an incredible opportunity to work for change. Does it suck that the hearing world doesn't already understand Deafness? Sure. But that's what happens when you're in a minority group, whether you're Deaf, black, LGBT, disabled, etc.
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I am tired of seeing or hearing other d/Deaf, Hard of Hearing and hearing people rant that everyone who are Deaf MUST caption their vlogs! What about the hearing vlogs and podcasts?? I don't see hearing people making sure other hearing people transcribe, caption or subtitle their podcasts or vlogs! We Deaf people have worked hard many, many times and the Deaf people who have lived before our time have also worked harder than hearing people did.
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I see many spoken-language podcasts and vlogs that are captioned, and more are being created all the time. Not all of them, but it's a start. Consider that we are not the dominant group here.
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I think that by not captioning the vlogs, I am helping preserve ASL and making hearing people who care to try harder to learn ASL.
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It's not a matter of working harder. It's a matter of increased access.
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Again, my point proven, you said we Deaf should caption our vlogs. That means Deaf vloggers would have to work harder than hearing vloggers. Man, this reeks of a big pile of shi.. err, Audism.
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Work harder than hearing vloggers? Well, first off, there are very few hearing bloggers. Second, I would point out that being in the linguistic minority tends to make life a bit harder. And if you're going to throw around terms like 'audism', keep in mind 'ableism' as well, as Taric pointed out.