It’s not the truth, but the lack of transparency that hurts any organization.

Truth is the best policy for both the organization and its community.

Have a good weekend.

From what I picked up many comments about the DBC and Deafhood (and ABG) so far, it’s clear enough that they must remove Deafhood from DBC.

I believe that few certain DBC leaders hijacked DBC with the Deafhood stuff which doesn’t belong to their original mission purpose in the first place.

It’s about those deaf babies, not about the Deafhood which rather belongs to the deaf teens and adults.

It sickens me to read such ugly insults or non-sense fusses by some people… those won’t solve but destroy the sole purpose. Grow up, people!

Otherwise, it’s pleased that we have DBC for the outreach on those deaf babies to stress ASL. Also that the DBC is only a year old so let’s give it some time to improve its image and purposes over the time ahead.

Recommend them to remove those hijackers then restructure the DBC and stick on with its original mission to reach the hearing parents, and make them to approach AGB to iron things out so we could reach those hearing parents there more effectively.

That’s pretty much is all we need. So act according and set personal differences apart, thanks!

anon,

Where do you stand? Your version on
this blogpost differs from that on
Ben’s blogpost. Make up your mind
and KNOW where you really stand!

Simple formula must be peaceful to deaf community look these:

Bible + DBC = NO WAY AND CANNOT MIX!
DBC + Dh = NO WAY AND CANNOT MIX!
DBC + Anit-CI = NO WAY ANDCANNOT MIX!

DBC + ASL for babies = OH YES!
DBC + Respect the parent’s choices = OH YES!
DBC + Neutral in CI & AVT = MMMM YES!?

In order to bring about unity, we need to embrace diversity. But we can’t embrace diversity right away… first we need to analyze, question, nitpick, etc., what diversity means. Once we accept diversity, unity follows.

But as long as we don’t fully understand what the diversity in deaf community means, there will be no unity.

I know I sound pessimistic…it is just we have strong opinions over diversity.

Not only other former core members, but also I invested heavily in DBC, spending hundred of hours building it up, discussing and doing extensive research.

How is the truth hurting DBC? Only if it’s not transparent to the public and its real agenda not the same what it presents to the public.

Had DBC been honest from the beginning, none of this would have happened. However the DBC leaders chose not to be transparent. Deficit Thinking, Colonialism, and oppressors, medical pathology vs deafhood, etc have nothing to do with bilingualism. They have harmed a lot of people on DeafRead by blasting the unpopular bloggers with negative terms and bashing them due to their cultural differences.

Where is the acceptance of diversity Deafhood is supposed to promote?

Why is deafhood heavily infused with DBC when it’s supposed to concentrate on bilingualism of deaf babies and young children alone?

Why is the truth hidden so long? Don’t kill the messenger. Look at the Deafhood leaders who hijacked DBC and John who allowed this to happen.