[lazyasciiart]

It’s not a new idea, you can go learn all about preserving languages and cultures and why and how people care. But even if you don’t do that you can stop giving ignorant takes like “they just have their identity wrapped up in their disability” and say “concern about preserving languages and cultures seems stupid”.

[neonstatic]

You are now putting words in my mouth. I said the quoted text was stupid. The stupid part was the statement, that framing deafness as a problem to solve is somehow hurtful and wrong.

Since you are very eager to police what I can or cannot do, let me return the favor: you can stop projecting beliefs you are angry about on other people and you can stop fighting those people over those projected beliefs.

[lazyasciiart]

No, you didn’t say the quoted text was stupid. If you feel you have been misunderstood try reading your own words and figuring out why you don’t even like them yourself.

[neonstatic]

Come on. I quoted something, then wrote "This just seems so incredibly stupid to me." That's the post.

[lazyasciiart]

You didn't quote anything. It's right there to reference:

What is particularly striking to me is bundling of two factors here: - Loss of hearing - Identity built around loss of hearing To me these two are distinct. I don't value people based on their disabilities or lack there of. So for me the ability to fix a body's physical deficiency is always a good thing. It makes life better for the person inside the body. These arguments, that I called stupid,

[neonstatic]

Ah. We are talking about different posts. The top post in this thread is also by me.