Comments on: "Resistance is Futile. You Will Be Assimilated." http://www.deafcanadian.com/2009/01/10/resistance-is-futile-you-will-be-assimilated/ Shelley Potma's Coffee-soaked Philosophies Thu, 12 Jan 2012 01:27:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Shel http://www.deafcanadian.com/2009/01/10/resistance-is-futile-you-will-be-assimilated/comment-page-1/#comment-3087 Shel Sun, 03 Jul 2011 22:59:05 +0000 http://sheldeafcanadiansthoughts.wordpress.com/2009/01/10/resistance-is-futile-you-will-be-assimilated/#comment-3087 Donna, I didn't say that cochlear implant is Borg. The cochlear implant is just another tool to make Deaf children fit into society. The oralist organizations and people who support the listening/speaking ONLY ideology behave pretty much like the Borg. They attempt to eradicate Deaf culture and ASL in the quest to make us forget that we are Deaf. Donna,

I didn’t say that cochlear implant is Borg. The cochlear implant is just another tool to make Deaf children fit into society. The oralist organizations and people who support the listening/speaking ONLY ideology behave pretty much like the Borg. They attempt to eradicate Deaf culture and ASL in the quest to make us forget that we are Deaf.

]]> By: Caroline http://www.deafcanadian.com/2009/01/10/resistance-is-futile-you-will-be-assimilated/comment-page-1/#comment-3085 Caroline Sun, 03 Jul 2011 21:13:15 +0000 http://sheldeafcanadiansthoughts.wordpress.com/2009/01/10/resistance-is-futile-you-will-be-assimilated/#comment-3085 I agree. I grew up Oral only and fully mainstreamed, it was not a happy experience and now at the age of 40, I'm learning ASL and meeting Deaf people and it's been a wonderful eye-opening experience. I now identify myself as Deaf. I agree. I grew up Oral only and fully mainstreamed, it was not a happy experience and now at the age of 40, I’m learning ASL and meeting Deaf people and it’s been a wonderful eye-opening experience. I now identify myself as Deaf.

]]> By: Donna http://www.deafcanadian.com/2009/01/10/resistance-is-futile-you-will-be-assimilated/comment-page-1/#comment-3084 Donna Sat, 02 Jul 2011 21:51:17 +0000 http://sheldeafcanadiansthoughts.wordpress.com/2009/01/10/resistance-is-futile-you-will-be-assimilated/#comment-3084 Yes, COCHLEAR IMPLANT is Borg! Yes, COCHLEAR IMPLANT is Borg!

]]> By: Shel http://www.deafcanadian.com/2009/01/10/resistance-is-futile-you-will-be-assimilated/comment-page-1/#comment-950 Shel Sun, 21 Nov 2010 23:13:47 +0000 http://sheldeafcanadiansthoughts.wordpress.com/2009/01/10/resistance-is-futile-you-will-be-assimilated/#comment-950 Thank you for the heads up. I will be checking that out. Thank you for the heads up. I will be checking that out.

]]> By: RLM http://www.deafcanadian.com/2009/01/10/resistance-is-futile-you-will-be-assimilated/comment-page-1/#comment-949 RLM Sun, 21 Nov 2010 23:12:00 +0000 http://sheldeafcanadiansthoughts.wordpress.com/2009/01/10/resistance-is-futile-you-will-be-assimilated/#comment-949 The full blog posting by Deaf Candy - http://candysweetblog.wordpress.com/2010/11/21/resistant-is-futile-who-is-gallaudet/ The full blog posting by Deaf Candy –

http://candysweetblog.wordpress.com/2010/11/21/resistant-is-futile-who-is-gallaudet/

]]> By: RLM http://www.deafcanadian.com/2009/01/10/resistance-is-futile-you-will-be-assimilated/comment-page-1/#comment-948 RLM Sun, 21 Nov 2010 23:11:01 +0000 http://sheldeafcanadiansthoughts.wordpress.com/2009/01/10/resistance-is-futile-you-will-be-assimilated/#comment-948 Here is Deaf Candy's blog posting just 2 hours ago - Resistance is Futile : Who is Gallaudet? Candy As a former Gallaudet student, one of the things I enjoyed and always looked forward to was The Buff and Blue student newspaper. So, it is not surprising that I would check out The Buff and Blue online. Of course, the actual Buff and Blue on print is way better than the online version. The [...] Dashboard Sun, Nov 21 2010 · 2 hours ago Here is Deaf Candy’s blog posting just 2 hours ago –

Resistance is Futile : Who is Gallaudet?
Candy As a former Gallaudet student, one of the things I enjoyed and always looked forward to was The Buff and Blue student newspaper. So, it is not surprising that I would check out The Buff and Blue online. Of course, the actual Buff and Blue on print is way better than the online version. The [...]
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]]> By: RLM http://www.deafcanadian.com/2009/01/10/resistance-is-futile-you-will-be-assimilated/comment-page-1/#comment-947 RLM Sun, 21 Nov 2010 23:03:34 +0000 http://sheldeafcanadiansthoughts.wordpress.com/2009/01/10/resistance-is-futile-you-will-be-assimilated/#comment-947 How interesting about Deaf Candy copied your blog title - 'Resistance if Futile, .....", then putted down the use of ASL with use of statistics and asked upon readers why we have to demand ASL at Gallaudet. Uh-huh! That's why we ought to fight to preserve our linguistic use among deaf people than letting the general society stomping all over us. :) How interesting about Deaf Candy copied your blog title –
‘Resistance if Futile, …..”, then putted down the use of ASL with use of statistics and asked upon readers why we have to demand ASL at Gallaudet.

Uh-huh! That’s why we ought to fight to preserve our linguistic use among deaf people than letting the general society stomping all over us. :)

]]> By: Medical Billing http://www.deafcanadian.com/2009/01/10/resistance-is-futile-you-will-be-assimilated/comment-page-1/#comment-684 Medical Billing Sat, 19 Jun 2010 11:13:12 +0000 http://sheldeafcanadiansthoughts.wordpress.com/2009/01/10/resistance-is-futile-you-will-be-assimilated/#comment-684 My cousin recommended this blog and she was totally right keep up the fantastic work! My cousin recommended this blog and she was totally right keep up the fantastic work!

]]> By: Joseph Pietro Riolo http://www.deafcanadian.com/2009/01/10/resistance-is-futile-you-will-be-assimilated/comment-page-1/#comment-131 Joseph Pietro Riolo Sun, 11 Jan 2009 18:40:00 +0000 http://sheldeafcanadiansthoughts.wordpress.com/2009/01/10/resistance-is-futile-you-will-be-assimilated/#comment-131 I would like to explain my reason for bringing up the character Geordi La Forge in response to the criticism made by Ms. Ella Lentz. It was not my intention to use the character to show the similarity between deafness and blindness. I brought him up precisely because he is, by definition, a cyborg. He is still accepted by the people in the Star Trek society regardless of whether he has interface to or incorporates the electromechanical devices. There are people who don’t want any interface to or don’t want to incorporate any electromechanical devices and they are still accepted by the Star Trek society.<br/><br/>People who have heart pacemaker can be considered as cyborg, depending on how the term "cyborg" is defined. So are people with the insulin pump. People with cochlear implants can be considered as cyborg. (I know that they don't want to be labeled as "cyborg" due to too many negative connotations associated with it and I use it here only for the philosophical discussion. In the real life, I would not use it to label people with cochlear implant.) I used the character Geordi La Forge to show a similarity between him and people with cochlear implant only in respect to the merge of biological and electromechanical systems.<br/><br/>The Star Trek episode that Ms. Ella Lentz and Shelley talked about is titled "Loud as a Whisper" and the detailed description of the story can be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loud_as_a_Whisper . In the story, Captain Picard did ask Dr. Pulaski to look into the possibility of a hearing device for the character Riva. This shows two things. It shows that merging with electromechanical systems is not something that the Star Trek society would resist against. It also shows that even if Riva is without a hearing device, the society still accepts him as he is. This is somewhat similar to what is happening in the Deaf culture where the very large majority of the members are accepting deaf people regardless of whether they have cochlear implant, in spite of very small minority that continues to resist against the technology of cochlear implant.<br/><br/>In response to the comment left by Shelley where she clarified what she meant by the analogy of Borg (dated January 10, 2009 at 7:48pm), I see where I misunderstood (big time). I see that you wrote the next blog entry clarifying your analogy of Borg. I will read it again and if I have any comment to make, I will leave one.<br/><br/>Joseph Pietro Riolo<br/>josephpietrojeungriolo@gmail.com<br/><br/>Public domain notice: I put all of my expressions in this post in the public domain. I would like to explain my reason for bringing up the character Geordi La Forge in response to the criticism made by Ms. Ella Lentz. It was not my intention to use the character to show the similarity between deafness and blindness. I brought him up precisely because he is, by definition, a cyborg. He is still accepted by the people in the Star Trek society regardless of whether he has interface to or incorporates the electromechanical devices. There are people who don’t want any interface to or don’t want to incorporate any electromechanical devices and they are still accepted by the Star Trek society.

People who have heart pacemaker can be considered as cyborg, depending on how the term “cyborg” is defined. So are people with the insulin pump. People with cochlear implants can be considered as cyborg. (I know that they don’t want to be labeled as “cyborg” due to too many negative connotations associated with it and I use it here only for the philosophical discussion. In the real life, I would not use it to label people with cochlear implant.) I used the character Geordi La Forge to show a similarity between him and people with cochlear implant only in respect to the merge of biological and electromechanical systems.

The Star Trek episode that Ms. Ella Lentz and Shelley talked about is titled “Loud as a Whisper” and the detailed description of the story can be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loud_as_a_Whisper . In the story, Captain Picard did ask Dr. Pulaski to look into the possibility of a hearing device for the character Riva. This shows two things. It shows that merging with electromechanical systems is not something that the Star Trek society would resist against. It also shows that even if Riva is without a hearing device, the society still accepts him as he is. This is somewhat similar to what is happening in the Deaf culture where the very large majority of the members are accepting deaf people regardless of whether they have cochlear implant, in spite of very small minority that continues to resist against the technology of cochlear implant.

In response to the comment left by Shelley where she clarified what she meant by the analogy of Borg (dated January 10, 2009 at 7:48pm), I see where I misunderstood (big time). I see that you wrote the next blog entry clarifying your analogy of Borg. I will read it again and if I have any comment to make, I will leave one.

Joseph Pietro Riolo
josephpietrojeungriolo@gmail.com

Public domain notice: I put all of my expressions in this post in the public domain.

]]> By: Shel http://www.deafcanadian.com/2009/01/10/resistance-is-futile-you-will-be-assimilated/comment-page-1/#comment-130 Shel Sun, 11 Jan 2009 14:11:00 +0000 http://sheldeafcanadiansthoughts.wordpress.com/2009/01/10/resistance-is-futile-you-will-be-assimilated/#comment-130 Yes, Ella, I remember Howard Seago's character in the Star Trek: Next Generation. He had three, (or was it ONE?)interpreters with him who worked telepathically with him. That was one unforgettable episode! You're correct that the deaf character's body wasn't modified in any way. Yes, Ella, I remember Howard Seago’s character in the Star Trek: Next Generation. He had three, (or was it ONE?)interpreters with him who worked telepathically with him. That was one unforgettable episode! You’re correct that the deaf character’s body wasn’t modified in any way.

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