08-29-2012, 04:05 PM | #1 |
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Now Sign Language is Offensive?
Some school board in the US got a 3-year old deaf kid in trouble for spelling out his name with hand gestures (it looked like a gun). An exception should've been made for this kid.
Here is the article: http://www.cbc.ca/news/yourcommunity...n-gesture.html |
08-29-2012, 04:07 PM | #2 |
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Re: Now Sign Language is Offensive?
hey canada stop looking bad
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08-29-2012, 04:09 PM | #3 |
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08-29-2012, 04:16 PM | #4 |
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Re: Now Sign Language is Offensive?
Usual stupidity making news. No big deal really.
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08-29-2012, 04:20 PM | #5 |
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Re: Now Sign Language is Offensive?
Wow
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08-29-2012, 04:28 PM | #6 |
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Re: Now Sign Language is Offensive?
So making a hand gesture that looks like a gun is against the rules, but in america anyone can own a gun. nbd
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08-29-2012, 04:33 PM | #7 |
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Re: Now Sign Language is Offensive?
Being that stupid is a choice chosen by said idiots. Not everyone here is stupid.
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08-29-2012, 04:33 PM | #8 |
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Re: Now Sign Language is Offensive?
o m g. i am so outraged.
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08-29-2012, 04:35 PM | #9 |
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Re: Now Sign Language is Offensive?
America being stupid. What's new?
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08-29-2012, 04:39 PM | #10 |
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Re: Now Sign Language is Offensive?
Ok. This is sad.
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08-29-2012, 04:43 PM | #11 |
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Re: Now Sign Language is Offensive?
If that's how the deaf boy spells his name, then the school is basically prohibiting him from saying his name - for the sake of political correctness and "potentially" offending people (who would really).
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08-29-2012, 04:43 PM | #12 |
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Re: Now Sign Language is Offensive?
It is stories like these make me disgusted to be part of today's society...
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08-29-2012, 04:45 PM | #13 |
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Re: Now Sign Language is Offensive?
wow that is insanely stupid
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08-29-2012, 05:16 PM | #14 |
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Re: Now Sign Language is Offensive?
Real guns don't kill people. Gun gestures kill people.
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08-29-2012, 05:26 PM | #15 |
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Re: Now Sign Language is Offensive?
In before someone gets kicked out of school because their name has "gun" in it.
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08-29-2012, 05:29 PM | #16 |
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Re: Now Sign Language is Offensive?
"why would kick little tommy gun out of school?!!???"
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08-29-2012, 06:30 PM | #17 |
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Re: Now Sign Language is Offensive?
Why would something like this even be an issue?
What kind of people would you have to be to spark controversy over a 3 year old deaf boy using sign language to use his name? His name isn't offensive, and it really shouldn't matter what his hand gestures look like to convey it. He's not trying to make a weapon, he's trying to tell others his name. I highly doubt that any of the children there could have even made the connection from his gesture that "looks like a weapon" to be one anyway (and if they did, it still wouldn't have been a real problem). Stupid will be stupid.
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08-29-2012, 06:43 PM | #18 |
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Re: Now Sign Language is Offensive?
stupid Nebraskans, they should all be lined up and shot.
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Re: Now Sign Language is Offensive?
Quote:
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08-29-2012, 06:48 PM | #20 |
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Re: Now Sign Language is Offensive?
The Norwegian name "Gunn" aswell?
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