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, 1 reply)

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)