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Karl White: A Lifetime Hate Crime Achievement Award
The American Cochlear Implant Alliance (ACI) recently presented Karl White: a Lifetime Achievement Award for his tyranny practices of Deaf last July 2019.
1) Several Deaf children died of cochlear implant surgery complications.
2) Medical neglect is a genocidal tactic.
3) Deaf citizens are not made to be cyborgs.
4) “Deaf People don’t know what is best for their babies” was the very mistake.
5) Number of Cochlear Implant failures as critical factors hold powers in check.
Karl White has also done something else that many cochlear implant do: It has demanded that Deaf citizens be targeted and take down human dignity. This remains an easy way for cochlear implant companies worldwide, and that is the definition of tyranny: cruel, unreasonable, or arbitrary use of power or control.
That is the lifetime achievement award. Cochlear implant makes a huge profit from Gallaudet University. For your thought, Gallaudet accepted million dollars on donations from cochlear implant, and I am sure there are some people in the administration are on their payrolls. They are afraid if Gallaudet gets a “real deal” Deaf as president, those programs would lose their faces because Gallaudet University would not support cochlear implant companies.
I believe it is all about money. If you decide to open Gallaudet University president’s bank account, you would find plenty of dirty money in the account. Why hide so hard from the Deaf community? When past president and the first “Deaf” president of Gallaudet University, signed a deal to have cochlear implant center on Gallaudet campus in 2006, to achieve its purposes through peer evaluation, information gathering and sharing.
There is no question that Gallaudet University supports Karl White’s lab work as well as inside Gallaudet propaganda is yet another university public relations to dismantle the Deaf community. Karl White asserts that he knows that cochlear implants are better than most about what Deaf people are capable of doing but White clearly indicates in his statement that he’s nothing but all talking. To date, we have yet to understand his work “toward our common collective goals.”
What are these collective goals? Has Karl White taken courses in ASL in order to reach Deaf citizens? What is his current score in ASL Proficiency Interview, believably the most important goals to accomplish these goals? No where in White’s statement has indicated one value that ASL is used for instruction of the Deaf as promoted by the university founder, Edward Miner Gallaudet in honour of his Deaf mother, Sophie Fowler, his father, the Reverend Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, and his Deaf mentor, Laurent Clerc. Nothing!
Karl White does not deserve Lifetime Achievement Award at all. Hate crime in the making. After all, Karl White deserves a Lifetime Hate Crime Achievement Award.
-JT
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Facts & Frauds in Cochlear Implants
IMAGE CREDIT: Jeffrey Beatty
The cochlear implant data is the greatest mockery of Deaf children. The golden ratio is also where it begins with the greatest truth to measure whatever it is. Since the “invention” of cochlear implants, has been manipulated a ratio that is critical in nature and is forgotten in Deaf culture what it should be.
That’s the stage of truth that is not being told. That’s the exploitation of Deaf people. The golden ratio is the greatest pattern that not only shows the gaps of oppressing Deaf people—perhaps endless lies and manipulations of Deaf identity. What exactly is cochlear implant? How did it limit the supplement of Deaf identity?
Remember the book, “Deaf Identities in the Making” by Jan-Kare Breivik to begin critical thinking in Deaf identity.
As for the data, with honesty for showing mathematical hypothesis, in a website with reference below: “In mathematics, a hypothesis is an unproven statement which is supported by all the available data and by many weaker results…” Those thoughts we need to examined in the root of deficit thinking, and the data is the most critically phenomena of our Deaf humanity.
The whole point of the post to understand humanely with data about 0-5 years old language acquisition that would uplift the proof of torture and cruelty on Deaf babies with cochlear implants is overwhelming and incontrovertible, detailing an unlawful practice that was far more brutal and unnecessary than previously known.
Unfortunately, the world is not Deaf-centered in our lives because it is heavily populated with sound-oriented and speaking. In the name of world we live in, the question to ask, if these hearing people actually listen to themselves? Did they ever “speak” with the Deaf? What about the medical and scientific arrogances that exist in this world?
The greatest main idea is that the Deaf mind is a single subject, and we need to examine more in the three areas of: development, survival, and empowerment of state of being Deaf.
With the data we see above, the definition of Deaf in the broadest sense of humanity, the data of the Deaf mind is the area of advanced statistics to battle out to understand more about the systematic oppression which means we need to have data to keep the fittest of survival to seek quest for the state of being Deaf, nothing can complete that answer better that way.
-JT
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Reference:
https://planetmath.org/hypothesis
Remembering Milan 1880: Light a Candle Against Hate
September 7, 1880—has addressed the Deaf community worldwide—before I get into the urgent necessity of this post. Let’s start with some painful memories. Imagine the day after September 7th, let’s think about Deaf children’s skills to use sign language as human right, they would have been great leaders—to embark on journey through uncharted territory, and to change the image of Deaf people within painful energy into the world that sees before us.
It was not long though, before Deaf people were pounded with human threat, and deal with Oralism from every direction—slammed doors and angry looks wherever they use sign language. That’s hate crime, folks.
Today, the surge of Oralism, for example, listening and speaking, Cued Speech, and cochlear implants, Deaf children are forced to face with a world that feels extremely fragmented and hostile as much as possible. That is not the way of a human life that was supposed to be safe.
The challenges Deaf people face are far—the rise of bigotry and hate crimes, and the huge gap between the richest and poorest are just the tip of the iceberg and that is even scary part.
Do not be intimidated by power. Deaf community is in the making—and stop in the name of hate! We need to resist in the age of hate crime. Imagine how Deaf community felt the day after September 7th, 1880. It’s just mind-boggling. We, the Deaf people have the power to make a change—and start off by digging deep into our identity as the state of being of Deaf.
Helen Keller once said, “Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much”
There are plenty of Deaf people who survived who dealt with Oralism ideology, they are also humans, who got the same number of hours each day as others on Earth—we must continue to resist against Alexander Graham Bell’s hate practices.
-JT
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Without Limits?
History on this day, June 2nd—in 1875 and 1907 has something in common what they had been bullying Deaf people ever since–battery economics and make a huge profit off them.
Mirrors of Destruction: Genocide in Deaf Community
After watching Carey Ballard’s ASL video about 10 stages of genocide in Deaf community, it was very good video! Deaf people need to stand up and oppose genocide laws. How many prominent stories would need to criticize the practice of genocide before the courts will listen to us? We all need to remind ourselves that sharing a story is powerful. It starts with you. United States Supreme Court motto: Equal Justice Under Law. We need to study International Court of Justice Seal carefully and examined.
With genocidal practices going around Deaf community in America, the rise of cochlear implants is not even funny, we must continue to resist and believes in empowering Deaf community harmed by cochlear implant companies. We believe in sharing truth to power and it is the merit key to pursuit of happiness. When a former cochlear implant user share their stories to carry their lived experience suffering against this dehumanizing system, the stories will make all the difference.
To resist against the fast-spreading genocide practice—Deaf community need to build an important movement and be strong. I believe in the power of invisible stories. It would bring cochlear implant survivors together to build powerful change of agent whom of them suffers against corruption. We also need to bring up discussions and understand more about the stages of dehumanization, pedagogy of the oppressed, and marginalization. We need to overcome the ignorance and culture of fear about Deaf people.
The hearts and minds of Deaf community do not need to be viewed as weak people and easily targeted for profits. The stage of genocide needs to be challenged in attitudes and beliefs that created fear, oppressing Deaf community directly impacted by the larger, if not, biggest dehumanizing system. MJ Bienvenu wrote, “We need to ask a larger question……why do we need Deaf Studies?” in Bienvenu’s article quoted from ‘Deaf Studies in the Year 2000: New Directions.’ It is indeed a critical thinking question that we all need to set a good leadership for better directions to stop the mass of cochlear implants.
I believe it was written in 1993 or 1994. Now it is 2018, and the surge of cochlear implants is becoming a global genocide. The state of cochlear implants is raking in big cash these days. It is becoming a booming economy that helped push genocide to record high. And….it is only beginning.
The goal of wiping the term, ‘Deaf’ off the face of Mother Earth is a reflection of oppressive and hateful leadership. Cochlear implant companies and the leadership of Alexander Graham Bell Association remains a lying dweller in education rankings, the divide between Deaf people has grown into a different picture.
Deaf babies are being targeted for profits, and I am dismayed how the status quo carries around Deaf people. Cochlear implants are the biggest financial dysfunctions that are hurting the vulnerability of Deaf community in the long run. The treatment of Deaf people is not the only, or even the most grossly neglected injustice flowing from mass of lies.
There are plenty of hate crime, hate speech and biases against Deaf people every day, largely invisible in the biased media that would guarantee stakeholders, ignorant minds, and deficit thinkers to make sure Deaf community shall be oppressed daily is held accountable. The genocide practice also treats Deaf people as forgotten citizens, and it is an injustice that needs to examine by the fact that the majority of oppression to wipe out the term of ‘Deaf’ for the pleasure of advantaged would make them feel safer.
Why is that? Why Equal Justice Under Law? How come Deaf people no longer equal for the roots of justice?
-JT
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Rebuke Cochlear Implant PSA
I just got finished watching a movie just now, Passengers with Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt—there was a quote from the movie with the opening scene that I should share with the readers. “A new world. A fresh start. Room to grow.”
The video via YouTube whom released to the public, Cochlear Implant PSA was full of public stunt and deception. All those implanted people are the passengers of cochlear implant industries. Nothing is more important of the difference between being Deaf and using ASL than the public stunt about cochlear implants (CI) as an attribute of success. CI people carry boasting to extremes.
Those same implanted people “cyborgs” seemingly obsessed with their own accomplishment, they said things like this: “Personal choice” and that is very dangerous public relations. Just like a movie, Passengers, Chris said, “Say you were trapped on a desert island, and you have the power to wish somebody there with you. You wouldn’t be alone anymore. But you’d be stranding the person on the island. How do…would you make that wish?” then the bartender who is a cyborg said to him, “I don’t know. I’ve never been on an island”
Exactly. Poor those CI people in the video. The public wants you to feel happy for them. CI people are like dogs needing constant praises and treats—treating them passengers. Alanna Kilroy, a cochlear implant user in the video said, “If I had to use ASL [American Sign Language], I would feel tremendously hindered by this form of communication.” and that was why Alanna never been on an island where ASL would be everywhere and she would realize that ASL is beautiful.
The key word, she said, “hindered” as in resulting in delay—ouch. Insulting the world of ASL for Deaf people. ASL often implies the existence of a separate world of knowledge. It cannot be denied, but Alanna must remember that ASL is primarily designed to refer to Deaf people’s own experience being Deaf.
Alanna and all those implanted people in PSA video represent the majority of minority population, that remain all their lives in a state of synthetic sounds, beholding only sounds they could not comprehend or identity. Their view of the world is most inadequate, distorted by social “passions and prejudices” against the nature of being Deaf and ASL.
However, if one of the implanted people, especially Alanna, who would remove cochlear implant for good, and grows accustomed to use ASL, she will often a time be able to look at ASL in a new light, of which she had formerly been denied. Then she would be “converted” from the world of synthetic sounds to the world of the Deaf. Nature—it is humankind’s original or natural condition. Nurture—it is something that nourishes or trains.
Did you know that some Deaf has stopped using cochlear implants? When you ask them why stop wearing them, they would say, “My nature is being Deaf.” Even though they were raised nourishing for years and years. Still nature overcomes nurture. Those CI people in the video should not be struck on the CI ship. They were brainwashed.
At the end of the movie, it said, “A friend once said….You can’t get so hung up on where you’d rather be that you forget to make the most of where you are.”…’We got lost along the way. But we found each other. And we made a life. A beautiful life. Together.’
Remember the beginning of the movie above in the first paragraph? A new world. A fresh start. Room to grow. That! Deaf people were born on Mother Earth for a reason to create beautiful life. CI was never part of Earth’s life. 258? You decide.
Morale: Sense perception is not the object of intelligence.
-JT
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Do Not Give Up, Stand Up, and Read Up!
Deaf Art of the Decade
David Call’s Deaf Soul Extraction. 2017.
That is exactly why Hate Watch should also monitor cochlear implant companies for the pillars of genocide. It is easy to think that the companies’ gets away with hate crimes. We should remember that many stockholders from the cochlear implant companies invading our lives each year, finding a way to dehumanize us, hoping to erase us as not productive members of the society.
With Hate Watch supporting Deaf community and rehabilitation, the survivors who once were a member of cochlear implant number like social security numbers; we need more stories from those survivors. As long as Deafhood framework heals those people, they will become more productive than ever. They can be pillars of Deaf community.
So, I decided to let my eyes to study Call’s work, I noticed that he was drawing 7th human subject, and decide to share my love of mathematics as Georg Cantor, a German mathematician once said, “The essence of mathematics lives in its freedom.” so, I went ahead and discovered with the help of numerology for 7 and seek for the meaning and it’s where it became interesting.
The number 7 is the seeker, the thinker, the searcher of Truth (notice the capital “T”). The 7 doesn’t take anything at face value — it is always trying to understand the underlying, hidden truths. The 7 knows that nothing is exactly as it seems and that reality is often hidden behind illusions.
By focusing on education, mentoring and empowerment, the aims are to eliminate hateful tactics. Cochlear implant companies are held responsible for the crimes they committed. Hate Watch would make all the difference. Appreciate cochlear implant survivors’ real life experiences, and frank and meaningful discussions in society.
The Deaf Soul Extraction by David Call should be the Deaf Art of the Decade. Period. Why not David Call earns the highest prestigious American honor called National Medal of Arts? The Deaf Soul Extraction should be brought and sealed into National Endowment for the Arts’ database. The United States Congress recognizes the National Medal of Arts. It was founded in 1984. The same year where the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) made the biggest mistake of human evolution and authority.
“In 1984, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the first cochlear implant for use in adults ages 18 and older. Five years later, the FDA approved the first cochlear implant for use in children ages 2 years and older.” [The link will be shown in references below]
Food for thought. Notice something? Five years later, that’s 1989, right? That year where 12 Deaf children had been extracted their souls only to be carried into 12 coffins. It is a lifetime nail-biting experience. Cochlear implant companies and FDA’s actions raise the question–what are they getting out of destroying Deaf human beings? Will their business profit from a stripped-down Deaf community?
There are a lot of illegal conflict of interests and stop the bigotry and unconstitutional activity by cochlear implant companies and…FDA to the full extent of extraction and soul-wrenching fear of going against human authority and pursuit of happiness–Deaf community do not deserve to be target of a hidden agenda.
The art says it all! Deaf subjects have the essence of mathematics to live in the name of freedom! Cochlear implants are in the danger of hidden mathematical truth. They are now hidden behind the web of lies. Call’s work is all behind the illusionary art. It is a brilliant work. I nominate this artwork to be Deaf Art of the Decade.
-JT
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In Response For Nyle DiMarco
So, here is first Deaf person to win America’s Next Top Model Cycle 22 and Dancing With The Stars Season 22 and set up his YouTube channel, Nyle DiMarco and let people ask him random questions on February 15, 2017, “Were You Bullied For Being Deaf?”
With due all respect for Nyle, that is where the buck has to stop there. Paddy Ladd, the author of Understanding Deaf Culture: In the Search of Deafhood,
Utilising their contacts in the scientific establishment and the media, a public climate has been manufactured which once again again proclaims the advent of the ‘miracle cure’ and suggests once more that ‘deafness is abolished’.” (page 159) and “In the case of cochlear implants, for example, one would expect the trumpeting of such a ‘cure’ to represent a contradiction to our absorbed miracle of the Little Magic Box. ‘If the box works so well, we might ask, ‘then why is such brutally invasive surgery deemed necessary?'” (page 173)
It is exactly a good example of media manipulation when someone asked Nyle a question, “what’s your opinion on cochlear implants in relation to (the lack of) sign language acquisition?” That was un-American question.
I was surprised what his response was. First of all, please remember that I am not against people who are cochlear implant users, but I am against cochlear implants itself. Please remember that.
Nyle signed in 2:10 video, “Well, I have nothing against cochlear implants. I would support whatever a child wants to do whether their parents want to get a cochlear implant. Fine with that I have no say in that matter.”
Do you really believe that a child would say, “I want a cochlear implant” just like that? Remember, in 1989, 12 Deaf children died from cochlear implant surgeries—so do you think a child would say, “I want a cochlear implant and I want to die, too?” Please be realistic! It is the oppressive society (doctors, audiologists, stockholders, politics, corporate dirt bags) that manipulates parents to get their children cochlear implants. Is that not a bullying?
Did Nyle ever read a book called Made to Hear: Cochlear Implants and Raising Deaf Children by Laura Mauldin yet? I do not think so because if he read the book then he would not say, “I would support whatever a child wants to do.” I am telling you that the book would blow your mind away.
Again, the book is very important for everyone to read and understand the truth. Beware; there are a lot of manipulations by people who are actually against ASL and even the state of being Deaf, too. That is a form of hate.
For example, Alexander Graham Bell Association for Deaf and Hard of Hearing has done very good public relations by manipulating parents into getting cochlear implants.
I am certainly disappointed that people who look up to Nyle as a “celebrity” who gives a wrong impression about it. He was supposed to set a better example and stop lies how special cochlear implant industries are. I mean, he said that he is an activist even he said that he is passionate about language and literacy. Well, did he know that cochlear implants makes it worse and become the subject of language deprivation? Even language delay, too. Cochlear implants does not make better literacy.
It is all about cultural oppression. It is also about the organizing principle of power wherein culture can be studied through technologies of power (cochlear implant industries) and money.
Why not Nyle stand up and challenge cochlear implant industries and make progress, education, conflict, struggle and resistance? For American Sign Language [ASL], it is the truth that attributes to functions, neither economy nor power. ASL creates truth, and this truth produces a function of power.
Cochlear implants has been ongoing ill-advised and misleading term for years and years. No human being can restore anyone’s hearing; Cochlear implants depends a lot on battery economics is a BIG business, yet, it does not restore anyone’s hearing at all. That is reality. It is all about money.
Remember, cochlear implants “profits” over people…is that even an American way of life?
-JT
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References:
Ladd, Paddy. Understanding Deaf Culture: In Search of Deafhood. 2003.
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