I started a thread about deaf signing on TV & got a bit of stick about it but somebody told me about this and I looked it up & just had to include it here as I thought it relevant - CH4 had to clean up the sign language as used on TV because it was non-pc:
- the sign for a Jewish person was a hook nose sign;
- the sign for a homosexual was a limp wrist sign
- the sign for a Chinese person was a pull at the side of the eye into a slant
- the sign for an Indian person was a finger point to the centre of the forehead
- there may be more that I don't know about
- the sign for a black in US is a flattened nose
I find the signs hilarious & also hilarious that the spokesperson for the deaf community said the CH4 were interfering with the deaf communities language & that it was discrimination!
"The programme makers at Channel 4 are interfering with deaf people's language, culture and view of society, and that is a form of discrimination."
Charges Of Discrimation As Sign Language Goes PC
http://www.rense.com/general50/chre.htm
I wonder what the sign for a deaf person is? Finger in ear? Or is this OK among the deaf themselves? Like the way blacks are allowed to call one another niggers but nobody else is allowed?
It always amazes me how our modern culture has got all these pressure groups which demand their right to withhold onto their tradition & any attempt to question it is pounced upon with shouts of discrimination/racism. I'm surprised the Jewish community, Indian community, Homosexual community, German community, Black community didn't protest about these signs.
Is there some sort of hierarchy of discrimination that we need to know about?