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by smegsicle 1355 days ago
> [if you don't use our product] You are excluding more than 700 million people from your content

i assume this is coming from a place where all abilities and disabilities are equal and any kind of value judgement is immoral, so maybe you could find it useful to know that in the real world, 700 million deaf people might find it offensive that you assume they are illiterate

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> 700 million deaf people might find it offensive that you assume they are illiterate

You don't have to be illiterate to prefer subtitles in your native language, which, for many ASL speakers, is ASL, not English.