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Life-saving ASL interpretation is the latest woke scourge.

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[–] misterdoctor 19 points 3 days ago

Right wing dorks hate ASL because the only thing people ever say to them in sign language is 🖕

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Deport righties to the North Pole so they can chill the fuck out for once

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Whoa, what the hell did the North Pole ever do to you? Drop them at Point Nemo.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Drop them in the Mariana Trench.

[–] glimse 14 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Fuckin idiots. I minored in ASL and if you signed without using your face and body, you'd fail out. It's such an important part of what you're saying.

Two deaf people can be discussing the death of a child and there will still be moments where they look straight up happy

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Is there a benefit to using ASL interpreters as opposed to closed captioning?

[–] glimse 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yes. It's as different as watching a speech vs reading it.

Example: "That's a great idea" is how it would be written whether it was meant seriously or not. An ASL interpretor would exaggerate the signs and use their face to convey the sarcasm.

My opinion is that if the information gets a press conference, they think it's important enough to convey with inflection and deaf viewers deserve the same.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago
[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago

Why hasn't Kirk just died yet? He's a negative worth scumbag and I'm tired of him.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago

They points at them can downward motion with hands forming an 'S' go extend both index fingers forward in a quick motion fuck off use a fingerspelled "O" handshape over "flat" hand shape on your dominant hand and slide it across the back there points to the nearest volcano

Hoped that pisses you righties off.

[–] jaggedrobotpubes 4 points 3 days ago

I wonder what it's like to be that big of a türdloser (it's german)