To Be or Not To Be - Social Darwinism in the 21st Century

Short video discussing eugenics and its mis-applications to Deaf people

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Deaf
• eugenics
• social
• darwinism
• selective
• breeding
• UK
• bill
• fertility
• parliament

[MoaDib1966]

Why is there no audio?

[pdurr]

why is there no signing on all video?

just imagine its like a video that is in French or Japanese - not always have subtitles

[MoaDib1966]

my meaning was why not have any sound to reach a greater audience?

As it is now only people who knows sign language can understand it.

[pdurr]

Yes you are right by adding sound or captions - it reaches a greater audience

given that the video quality itself is very low (too dark setting) and it takes a bit of time to compose, shoot and shoot again adding a voice over or captions - means TRANSLATING from ASL to English which is a hefty task

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[MoaDib1966]

A totally unrelated question really but is facial expressions part of the sign language deaf use? like how would you perceive a sign language conversation while not being able to see the other persons face?

[pdurr]

Yes facial expressions are a huge part of sign language's grammar and convey semantics and affect syntax etc

Deaf folks can still understand a signed message without facial expression but its not natural and more work

[TheAtheistVisionary]

Also, body language (which includes facial expressions) helps get the point across.

[MoaDib1966]

Could be done as simply undertexting it :)

[abdifitahabdulla]

Good work...Thanks