OUTLAW said:
KS..
You did blow yourself out of the water..
All those pages and pages of words..
Then you fall on your sword in one sentence..
LOL!!..
Outlaw, it seems the Bible has left you unable to discern the difference between metaphors and literal? *sigh*, OK.
Donkeys are beasts of burden, animals often used for transporting loads, carrying people, or doing heavy work for the benefit of men.
Even though PP won't admit to it, she tried to use her association with the deaf community in order to SUPPORT using this video against JWs, on the grounds of some obscure (non-existent?) issue of inappropriate choices made in the video (as if it's a burning issue within the deaf community: REALLY!?).
Armed with that righteous indignation over the outrage of the WTBTS, she declared this video WASN'T offensive to the deaf community, and gave her blessing to it's use to cause derision, humiliation, and embarrassment to take down the JW cult (in her mind: she thought it would do all that).
M-kay, there's not much surgical-pinpoint precision (it's shot-gunning), because the video is only likely to embarass the individual (the one you made the cute GIF of), and not bring Brooklyn toppling to the ground, as if Anti-Armageddon arrived. Have you heard reports of a ground-swell or blow-back from the video recently, with JWs fleeing from the KHs in horror on a Sunday afternoon to protect the kids from discusion of masturbation? Maybe to take them home, and ENCOURAGE them to masturbate? Burn those nasty DVDs? NOPE. Crickets chirping.
NOW, if you don't get that metaphor of directing the donkey to charge into battle to tilt at windmills (oh, there's three mixed metaphors: I shouldn't have done that!), then you seemingly haven't taken a basic college-level course in social sciences and not been exposed to the concept of 'co-opting': a sub-group infiltrates or commandeers control of a social movement/cause with a different agenda than the platform upon which it was founded.
The phenomenon is not uncommon: if you had ANY interest in the issues facing the hearing- or visually-impaired before making your cute masturbation GIF of the goofy-looking deaf guy, then you'd KNOW the issue and debate is long-standing within these groups. You clearly didn't, so there ya' go! You failed your own Shibboleth Test, which indicates your concern is no more than trying to win an argument on the Net. You also win the attempted co-opting award!
(BTW, co-option is often heard when discussing groups like moveon.org, the Tea Party, Occupy Wall St, or in Marxist communist history; it's a dynamic that's not exactly breaking news to anyone who's aware of the shitty games and power struggles that people play in "The World".)
Those co-option issues are not going to be solved here on JWN, so it's well OT.
But heck, let me bottom line this one for you:
I could give a flyin'-flip what YOU, sitting on your computer playing with GIFs, think about what I do with my life, and why I do it. Got it? I'm NOT acting as "a protectorate of the deaf" etc. I object to being accused of being a JW apologist, and of being accused of speaking for a community when I never did, and in fact: THAT'S the POINT. NO ONE is allowed to determine what causes offense to others, as what is not offensive to one person may not be offensive to another, and hence it's good to not go out of one's way to offend (for no good reason).
Being accused of co-opting the deaf community to protect them was EXACTLY what I WAS accused of by PP (supposedly to squelch their suppression); fact is, she was doing EXACTLY THAT by declaring the video wasn't offensive to the deaf community. She took an extreme position to counter what she MISUNDERSTOOD as my position (project much?), and that made HER do exactly what she accused me of. Damn straight, I find the accusation to be insulting, as it's an ignorant thing to claim to speak for others (esp when you're not deaf).
ow, you don't really think anyone gets anywhere in life if they allow mouth-breathing MORONS and foot-draggers/naysayers block their path? Really??? There's always a line of nitnoid naysayers willing to to sneer at you and say, "you can't do THAT!".
If you accept other's criticism without questioning it's validity (cult, anyone?), then you've lost even before you got off the starting block.
So thanks, but I'll consider the source of your criticism as from someone who MAY have ulterior motives? Dare I suggest that? Hey, I accepted long ago some people giggle at the jerking off sign, or spends hours making animated GIFs of the same. Hey, you provide valuable comic relief to JWN site (and don't be upset, but not everyone is going to like all of your work, all of the time: no one bats 1,000).
Oh, yeah: I've had patients vomit, disrobe (when you didn't ASK them to!), piss in the chair/sink, crap their pants in the chair during exams, and at first it was disconcerting ("is this really happening?"). It gives the staff alot of giggles afterwards (except the poor tech who has to clean it up, wearing gloves and spraying cavicide!), but it needs to be handled in a professional manner so as to AVOID PATIENT EMBARRASSMENT. Human bodies are funny things, and have a mind of their own...
I don`t know how posting pictures of special needs children will help.
Another point you failed to understand? Read what I wrote VERY CAREFULLY, and try it again.
