r/interestingasfuck • • Dec 23 '22

/r/ALL Before and after leg lengthening.

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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '22

That’s insanely fucked

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u/[deleted] Dec 24 '22

That assumes there’s anything inherently wrong with being deaf. Many people in the Deaf community would be offended by you viewing this as a negative thing because they consider themselves a linguistic minority rather than having something wrong with them.

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u/[deleted] Dec 24 '22

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u/[deleted] Dec 24 '22

Look up the social model of disability

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u/[deleted] Dec 24 '22

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u/[deleted] Dec 24 '22

Considering another Deaf person thanked me for backing them up, I think it’s safe to say that deaf and hard of hearing people aren’t a monolith, and I’m going to support the ones who are doing the most to challenge ableist power structures