Tag: William House
MY RESPONSE: Teresa Blankmeyer Burke in Defense of Vinton Cerf
I am excited to challenge the only Deaf-signing woman in the world that receives PhD in Philosophy. Her name is Teresa Blankmeyer Burke. She was there at the graduation held at Gallaudet University and admitted that Vinton Cerf did talk about technology, but did not “exhort everyone to get implanted.” I am surprised for someone like her holding the highest honors in Philosophy did not exactly read the lines very well. We cannot ignore the hate speech that is already proved scientifically or verified objectively. So, it is important to put a lot of investment in understanding hate speech. The tools we learn is very crucial for everyone with greater perspective about hate speech and bias, so we can forward with healing to pursue the higher truth and value of Deaf people, no matter what conclusions are. The mockery is gone. Long gone.
There are only two words that are people: survivors and hostages. How can Teresa dare to make personification out of civility, integrity, and truth without elaborating or describing them? Try to imagine who civility is, who integrity is, and who truth is. In Burke’s own words, “That is my observation as well after I watched the video. There is nothing in his presentation that gave any hint of exhortation to anyone. I see him as a technophile who is amazed by all the technologies that we currently have and is very excited to see what the future will bring. I copied two small portions of captions of his presentation that I think where some people misunderstood him. Approximately around 2:04:24: “Wearable computers and sensing devices on or embedded in our bodies will be standard practice some already are, such as the insulin pump, cochlear implant, and video cameras you can shallow.” Approximately around 2:04:58: “Stem cell and genetic therapies will almost become commonplace in your lifetimes and it is not inconceivable that we will be able to re-grow damaged parts of our bodies and that may include the reconstruction or organs that help us see or hear.” I could not find anything in his presentation that is even close to the exhortation. The burden is on those who made such claim to provide the accurate source of where he said that. My theory is that they were afraid of what the future would being (in the sense of technophobe, opposite of him) and saw his presentation through their own anti-cochlear implant lens that led to wildly inaccurate claim.”
WOW! WOW! Now I find Burke not as smart as I thought. I will copy several portions of captions of his presentation that I think where people did not see between the lines. Again, English language can be very tricky. My findings below:
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“My wife, Sigrid Cerf received her first cochlear implant in 1996 and a second one ten years later. Now in 2015 you are about to graduate into a world that we can only begin to imagine. Notice the word right before this? ‘First cochlear implant…and second one ten years later….into a world that we can only begin to imagine. It means use your best imagination what to hear out there. ONLY WE CAN ONLY BEGIN….
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“In my own field, it is reasonable to expect that quantum computers will become real. If not, necessarily in wide spread use. Minimally invasive surgery will be the norm for many conditions and nano-scale devices will be reduced to practice. Some may be autonomous and others guided by skillful hands or even by robots. Some will work inside our bodies. The key is “minimally invasive surgery will be the norm for many conditions.”—Many conditions means to wipe the condition of Deaf world. The second key is that “some will work inside our bodies” suggesting cochlear implant will work inside our ears. Is the ears part of the bodies? You decide.
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“The Internet is becoming a reality and it will be the norm for you in your life time. Wearable computers and sensing devices will be standard practice some already are. Such as the insulin pump, cochlear implant, and video cameras you can shallow.” Cochlear implants are the reality that people need to shallow. Sensing devices are the part of encouraging getting cochlear implants.
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“It is not inconceivable that we will able to re-grow damaged parts of our bodies and that may include the reconstruction of organs that help us see feel or hear.” It is easy to know what it means when someone says “re-grow damaged parts of our bodies”—re-grow ears are part of the bodies!
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“Some of you will discover new physical principles….” Hmmm. That is very tricky. Isn’t physical principle part of eradicating Deaf and learn to be hearing again? Deaf people have principles to protect their constitution rights.
From I had learned through my academic experience, it is best to stop any demonstrating troublesome and potentially harmful behaviors. When people practice any behavior, for example, hate speech, that behavior becomes stronger and harder to get rid of. In our human minds, we see a person of different culture walking past the street, and people sneer at them. They then become invariably disappears. To the human mind, the awareness works. To a slightly anxious people who did not take full responsibility to stop any kind of hate, and to a very anxious person like Alexander Graham Bell, Aristotle, Dimity Dornan, Karl White, William House, Vinton Cerf, many more, this completely reinforces the idea that hate speech makes scary things go away.
The goal is to teach people awareness that people should not be harmful and to substitute other behaviors, such as relaxing (at home), or paying attention to you. It is vital that you manage the environment to prevent this from happening. Do not allow people to spend time with haters unsupervised, where they can see outside, access the door, and criminalize at passersby. We would like to change people’s emotional reaction, as well as their behavior, when they seems different people on the walk. To do this, they must be comfortable—not making hate comments, literature, or speech that can constitute a hate crime. They will have to make judgment calls about which people they think they will react to, but err on the side of caution. We already know what they are more likely to react to people in hoods or carry backpacks.
That is my two cents. Share the truth! It is important to use your knowledge to recognize your civility and the truth wins with the most powerful integrity as possible. Philosophy holds the most noble thinker—try to read the lines better next time. Socrates, the most wisest thinker of all time would drink some red wine celebrating the civility, integrity, and truth that Deaf people do not need cochlear implants.
-JT
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Nuremberg Laws: Target Recruitment of Cochlear Implants to Perish Deaf People
The artwork was done by Joseph N. Artino, a Deaf Artist (Please click the picture for better viewing)
The doctors who performs cochlear implants on Deaf babies knows the risk with no safety at all, the doctors also knows that there are plenty of precautions that must be taken in proportion to the actual risk of harm. The doctors teach Deaf children their precautions that they did not realize that they are teaching the, and they keep up where they are and who they are associated with—-hearing people and that means it will help them make dirty money with zillions of instructions against much greater risk from family members in their lives.
Cochlear implant companies are a parallel to the German Registry prior to World War Two. In 1935, Germany enacted the Reich Citizenship Law also known as Nuremberg, which separated Germans into two groups. The first group’s citizens were called Reich citizens who were allowed to keep all of their constitutional rights and freedoms. The second groups were called German Nationals (Jews, homosexuals, brown skinned people, disabled people and Deaf people, etc.) and who were then assigned degraded and limited constitutional rights and freedoms. We all know what happened to those assigned to the degraded rights citizens of group number two. Not only but also the cochlear implant companies are creating hidden monitoring programs that supports dehumanization and segregation.
The persecution of people in history usually starts out by the division of society into regular and degraded citizenship groups. The next step is to shun them and exile them to the edges of society. After a while it is decided that this degraded people must be held in camps away from everybody else to protect both sides from each other. The final step is to liquidate the degraded citizens because they are too expensive or bothersome to maintain.
It goes the same to the Deaf people that include children that are getting threats from the society. Deaf people do not earn their outright citizenry. Their legal status is Deaf. Nothing more. Deaf people had been fighting to survive the elements in their life everyday. For example, their rights to use American Sign Language and their state of being Deaf to support their survival modes. Cochlear implant companies are abusive very much in their own elements, which are cruel, and an abuse of state power against Deaf people’s wishes. A month ago, there was a massive lawsuit against cochlear implant makers called Cochlear Ltd. Based in Australia for 131.2 million dollars, which is in my opinion, is not enough. It should be more than 100 billion dollars or even shut the company down! They are a billion-dollar company………..lots of Ben Franklin’s dollars!
The reason the lawsuit was because the company got their ass kicked dealing with an infringement trail over patents relayed to the devices in state of California, the same state that holds the rank of the world’s eighth’s largest economy by the net worth in gross domestic product (GDP): Whopping $2.0 trillion dollars. The point is that $131.2 million is VERY small amount. It is the exactly the same amount of the movie (131.2 mil dollars), The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug earned during their opening movie box office weekend worldwide. See the link below. Flash news: Are we the Deaf worth $131.2 million dollars for their genocide practice? Are we the Deaf seen as the Era of Desolation?
After reading Deaf People in Hitler’s Europe wrote by Donna F. Ryan and John S. Schuchman, in page 19, they wrote, “The Freiburg anthropologist Eugen Fischer had become famous through his book, The Rehoboth Bastards and the Problem of Miscegenation Among Humans, written on the basis of his research in German Southwest Africa and published in 1913. This study established his reputation and also influenced all subsequent German racial legislation, including the Nuremberg racial laws…” it goes the same to William House, the father of Cochlear Implant who used his reputation that influenced all the subsequent A-U-D-I-S-M legislation. Again in page 38, “The Nuremberg laws were considered public health measures and were administered primarily by physicians…”
Again, the cochlear implant makers are nothing but a shaming and humiliation system of punishment applied to Deaf people who have not harm the society at all. When a cochlear implant maker trains a hospital doctor to degrade the freedom and legal rights of Deaf people among us is safe, no? The cochlear implant companies are the latest examples of long-line of “hearing” witch-hunts. Please look up Germany’s 1935 Reich (Nuremberg) Citizenship Law and see what the cochlear implant companies are doing to Deaf people today. Doctors failed to follow The Hippocratic Oath.
We the Deaf needs to organize a movement to abolish cochlear implant makers because for the biggest reason, they are creating an oppressive punishment against Deaf people based on fear and disgust. Cochlear implants are unconstitutional and discriminatory. Not even for 131.2 million dollars! Pretty messed up, right? Today (Feb.16th) a year ago, I was asked to consider getting a cochlear implant during an emergency room and my chief answer: NO!!!
–JT
Copyright © 2014 Jason Tozier
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Reference:
Ryan, Donna F. and Schuchman, John S. Deaf People in Hitler’s Europe. 2002. Gallaudet University Press along with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Washington, D.C.
Links:
bloomberg.com/news/2014-01-24/cochlear-loses-131-2-million-verdict-in-patent-lawsuit.html
chinadaily.com.cn/culture/2013-12/18/content_17182310.htm
germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/pdf/eng/English32.pdf
Tucker-Maxon Oral School Teachers Are Blameless
That’s me. 1978. Tucker-Maxon School Playground.
My mother was only 18 years old and my father was 20 years old when I was born in the same year President Nixon had resigned. The majority of my relatives are hearing. Almost all except one person who could communicate with me in sign language with me was my younger brother. At age two, I was placed into my very first school, Tucker-Maxon Oral School in Portland, Oregon. The school was not cheap! I was a product of an oral school where their school philosophy that does not promote sign language on the ground which makes my education accessibility harder.
They were trying to make me to act like a prize horse with having my own audiologists, teachers, and speech therapists policing me around and learn how to use my voice and not to use sign language and lose my dignity. That is where I became myself as “another” and loses my sense as an individual. I was only two years old that time!
I can remember my first teacher, Chris (Wolf) Soland who told my parents that everything will be all right. What a big lie! Chris Soland and Alice Davis lied through their yellow teeth and tried very hard to make me successful. Their plan did not work at all. I was glad that I was a rebel kid. A friend of mine told me a story last year that a student also went to Tucker-Maxon, for the take-home final, he wrote “I do have good hearing friends but somehow, I try to make myself act normal and that I wasn’t deaf”–it broke my heart! He was taught about “hearing” people but they were not taught how to be “hearing”. Can you see the difference? It is so unfair!
I was thankful that I was asked to read a book called Cratylus where Plato had Socrates question whether signs by the Deaf are equated with spoken and written names or words. The answer is aye. About 2,500 years ago, in and around the area we now call Greece, a philosopher who may have called himself Plato began an experiment in writing that would shape the world of human intelligence. Embarrassed and heartbroken by the death of his mentor Socrates, Plato left Athens and went to live in Alexandria in Egypt for 20 years. Upon his return to Greece, Plato founded The Academy–the prototype of today’s colleges and universities.
Plato had inherited writing from the Egyptians who were always mindful of the fate of Thoth, the name given by the Greeks to the Egyptian god of writing and knowledge–of intelligence, reason, and logical–associated with learning, language, and literature. After Thoth presented his invention in the court of Pharaoh, he was removed from the chamber so his masterpiece could be examined and deliberated. It was decided that Thoth should be punished to die because written words cannot be questioned for the answers to Pharaoh’s quest for truth. Although the written words are keys to doors leading to truth, the doors are not opened and the truth beyond the doors are not perceptible to Pharaoh’s eye, which means no prior knowledge.
The whole point is that Tucker-Maxon Oral School knows that Oralism is not even part of intelligence, reason, and logical–again, associated with learning, language, and literature. Tucker-Maxon teachers are too stupid to know that sign language is very much part of intellectual discourse, while Oralism has NO knowledge and is not perceptible in our eyes! Also, cochlear implant companies as well as late Mr. William House, the father of Cochlear Implant, heavily appropriated Tucker-Maxon. In fact, Tucker-Maxon was the first oral school in America to offer cochlear implant program. Oregon is the home of the cochlear implanted. I will not name William House as Dr. William House, I will call him Mr. William House instead because he does not deserve the title of Doctor. He said, “Deafness is a such a horrible thing”, he told an audience at Brigham Young University (BYU) in 1997. “If a person can hear in their last years of life, I think it is worth it. I recently put an implant in a 95 years old man. He got married after that” What a gelding! His wife was exploiting his life insurance. That was the bottom line. By the way, Karl White was his huge supporter.
Even my Individual Education Plan (IEP) reports said that I couldn’t be successful student if I did not learn Oralism right. Ha ha ha! Tucker-Maxon needs to be shut down for good because there are thousands of violations with no sanctions for the teachers with weapons in their hands. The fact is for the oligarchy and their servants, there is no law against teachers who cannot be blameless as well as their money donors and media trolls to suggest that the society should lynch Deaf children’s hands and be judged by a jury of Audists. Póg Mo Éireannach Thóin! (Kiss My Irish Ass!)
-JT
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References:
Plato, by Reeve, C.D.C. 1998. Cratylus. Cambridge: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.
http://www.latimes.com/news/custom/scimedemail/la-me-william-house-20121212,0,271457.story
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