Originally Posted by Gamer12

Decidedly and positively wrong. The reason I found this topic and responded to Taric's post was because the vlogs had captured a few hearing people's interests, particularly in two ASL-based vlogs. After viewing them, they asked me about ASL itself. After a patient explanation, they became curious about our ASL: the large sociological substantial aspect of Deaf culture. One hearing man brought up in the discussion about this topic, and while he differed with Taric's observation -- he's an anthropologist -- he quizzed me over about the 'needs' and 'wants' of captioning the vlogs. He divulged the social value of captioning the vlogs as "a tool that warrants the want, not need".


One more thing about this captioning the vlogs subject: if there is a remote chance of making some profits in captioning the vlogs, I'd jump on the same bus Taric is riding on. If it's a mere voluntary-based or contribute the pooh-pooh dying 'good guys' movement to the society, I cannot be arsed to fuss about it myself. We're in capitalistic-ridden era. As my old boss always said, "no money, no sweat". If Taric wants to caption the vlogs and then he should go for it, but he shouldn't whine at the community about others and the absence of captions in their vlogs. It'd the best for all of us and the community to leave this to 3 years old kids to throw a tantrum about it. It's just an person-based want or desire, not corportation/profit-based product or need. Although, admittedly, there is a small, if not remote, chance that captioning the vlogs could attract several lurkers or a few commentators at most. But that's it.

My friends, Capitalism 101: profit = productively and motivation. I'd rather to conserve my time for more meaningful activities like spending my well-earned hours on teaching hearing people how to sign ASL, educate them the aspects of the Deaf culture, dating with hot hearing women who are interested in ASL, and so on.

--->It's not a matter of working harder. It's a matter of increased access.<---

So were you saying that conservative bloggers should've written the blogs in favor of or praise liberals and heartily endorse them as 'heroes' to boost their accessiblity (reaching and handshaking over the table)? And vice versa. What? It's a matter of increased access, right?

--->And if you're going to throw around terms like 'audism', keep in mind 'ableism' as well, as Taric pointed out.<---

Oy, if you or Taric would throw around 'ableism' at others who rightly suggested 'audism' regarding this topic, keep in mind 'solipsism' as well.

I'm not sure why I chipped in and bump headed with others who threw a tantrum about the 'person-based want' namely 'captioning the vlogs' topic. The member above rightly pointed that we can only agree to disagree and if you want to caption the vlogs, go ahead and enjoy it but suggest you to keep the tantrum and woe-is-meism to yourself. It's part of maturity.