anthony__j

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by anthony__j 2y ago
im being a little extra in replying here, but only because i used to think like many people in this thread until i met more people living with deaf and blindness, and i realized that i had a big (pun unintended) blind spot in my cultural un
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by anthony__j 2y ago
this is great thinking. to me, the line to be drawn has a lot to do with lived experience. talking about deafness involved lots of people who live their entire lives affected by deafness, while discussing evolution affects peoples spiritual
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by anthony__j 2y ago
to you, this is a pedantic argument. but to millions of Deaf people in the US alone, this is a very important political point. for example, lots of Deaf people who prefer to live without cochlear implants face lots of pressure from people w
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by anthony__j 2y ago
i thought this as well! you wouldn't say "autism cured". to many this must seem like a semantic argument, but Deafness is an entire culture and identity with hundreds of years of history
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by anthony__j 2y ago
like someone mentioned in a separate comment, you are conflating disease with disability here. when people become too old to walk without assistance, you wouldn't say that they have a walking disease.
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by anthony__j 2y ago
haha, that's pretty clever. makes you wonder if fermat was doing a similar prank with his margins
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by anthony__j 2y ago
always mturk all the way down
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by anthony__j 3y ago
i've not seen evidence of this happening outside of the times of israel repeating IDF accusations
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by anthony__j 3y ago
i've yet to see reporting on this that is not sourced directly from the IDF - who are accusing dead men based on "intel" that they've found after a bombing