Interesting that I was wrong because I had been gullible for thinking that Paotie was a woman but he is a MAN!!! Oh geez, I am tired of being gullible all the times like I did swallow a big fat whale!!
What is wrong with Paotie for not showing and telling who he is???? How come he did say where he goes to school???
Joshua Dawson, aka Paotie, is taking online course with Walden University working on getting a DR degree in Public Policy and Admin.
He seems to know what he is talking about then,
Monday, December 04, 2006
Deaf hypocrisy
We live in a country of hypocrites. It isn’t that I’m tired of the hypocrisy ˆ it’s that people tend to deny that they’re hypocrites. Even worse, people pretend they are shocked and offended when other people are hypocrites.
How hypocritical can you get?
Today, I’ll pick on Deaf people. The hypocrisy Deaf people have towards the hearing world and other deaf people are amazingly simple to understand.
First, Deaf people love to be told that other deaf people “reject” their culture because they also reject ASL. Additionally, many proponents of this type of classification base their claims that anthropologists have made the Deaf culture valid and legitimate through the language of ASL. Anthropologists probably didn’t realize that their words and research findings (written in English) would be construed by Deaf culture to be something else entirely.
Deaf people and their proponents love to claim that the hearing world doesn’t understand the needs, feelings, emotions and intellectual capabilities of Deaf people. Moreover, they love to proclaim that their language (ASL) is THE language of all deaf people, and so if a deaf person somehow does not use ASL, they are immediately rejected from Deaf culture.
The hypocrisy lies in how Deaf people classify themselves, first as “Deaf,” and then subsequently compartmentalizes everyone else as different. According to this model, Deaf people reject the notion they have a disability; other deaf people who accept that they have a disability are called “deaf or hard of hearing,” which in general Deaf contextualization, is used to demarcate a negative connotation or derisive meaning towards those who do not subscribe to ASL.
Not every deaf person born in this country had the opportunity to learn ASL as a first language ˆ why would anyone demand or expect that they change languages from SEE, English or other to ASL simply because it’s the prerequisite for membership into an exclusive club (Deaf culture.) Even more alarming, in New Mexico, the Commission for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing is slowly turning into a “Deaf” Commission, as opposed to a governmental organization serving people with severe hearing losses (disabled or not.)What’s driving all this? Deaf schools, institutions and sign language interpreting programs. Why? Because they need the money to sustain their programs. This may be oversimplification of the Deaf system, however, even the historical process of ASL is still based on government-funded programs and institutions, which reinforces my belief that ASL and the whole notion of “Deaf” has only been invented and manipulated to advance governmental programs ˆ not for the Deaf people per se.
The hypocrisy also lies in something else: Deaf people love to pretend that hearing people don’t understand them. Additionally, the anthropologists (hearing people, no less) created a classification system to demarcate who was culturally deaf based on a single language; they also ignored the larger aspects of deaf people in this country and focused only on the governmental institutions, programs, schools and organizations. If anything, Deaf people should have rejected the anthropologists claims that Deaf culture exists merely because of a hearing model for cultures (language = culture). Except that Deaf people are unique both in the way they view society and also in the way they view themselves.
In the end, hypocrisy is what defines Deaf people. New terms to identify deaf people into further classifications continue (see: Deafhood), which is a stupid, silly notion expanded on by an English person, no less. Someday perhaps, deaf people will cease to classify everyone into nice little compartmentalized groups which serve no purpose than to create more divisive, negative and hypocritical views which do nothing but harm everyone.
Deaf people would preserve their culture and language (ASL) much better by removing the dependence so much of Deaf culture has on governmentally-funded programs or institutions. Rather than depend on these organizations to advance or facilitate the Deaf community and their needs, Deaf people need to start advocating for independent paradigms of who is deaf and how to describe their perspectives, experiences and contributions to society ˆ rather than manipulating anthropologists’ ill-defined terms used to describe deaf people and deaf culture.
Deaf is deaf is deaf.
ASL is a language, true ˆ but not ALL deaf people use ASL. If anything, Deaf culture should be defined simply as, “a person who is medically and legally deaf and experiences unique situations that most of (hearing) society does not.”None of this bullshit: “Deaf people are those who are too stupid to know what’s best for them, so we make governmental programs to help them.”
:o)
Paotie
Well, I disagree with you, but that’s okay. We have different ideas and perspectives. And yes, we can work together, which is what the comment I left John (and which he published on his blog) asked him:
“What can I do?”
I tried.
By the way, have fun celebrating your son’s birthday.
The Colts vs Patriots game is gonna be exciting! Super Bowl in November!
I find it so funny that Paotie refuses to identify himself and throwing some bombs at us about the concept of Deafhood. I guess he has no balls to tell us his own identification so he had to use his alias as Paotie.
I am sorry to say that. Paotie is not a true man. A true man would show himself and stand up in what he believes in. Paotie is a scared man. I hope that he will get some professional help so he can begin his journey of using his real name instead of cowering behind his childish alias.
Silly assumptions open door to odd chat at Starbucks
By JOSHUA DAWSON
SPECIAL TO THE GAZETTE
September 16, 2007 - 7:04AM
At a Starbucks near my house, I was waiting for my order to be made
when a middle-age, white, petite woman with lots of makeup and brown
hair tightly wrapped in a bun approached me.
She asked me something and I couldnt understand her. I told her I was
deaf. She reacted as if I had been born without a brain and began
talking in slow motion, which didnt help me read her lips. Her words
were becoming blurred into one long word.
W h a a a a a t i s s s s s s y o u u u r - rnaaaaaame?
I asked her to talk normally and after a few tries, she started
speaking coherently. I told her my name and we shook hands. Her grip
was rather strong for a woman of her size, and a brief mental picture
of a Christian dominatrix popped into my skull. Do you know how to
read and write? she asked me. No. For some reason or another, lots
of people seem to think being deaf is the same as being Forrest Gump.
If it wasnt someone thinking I was medically stupid, then someone
else expected me to randomly quip, Life is like a box of chocolates.
You dont know how to read at all? No. What do you do for a
living? I do not work. She raised both of her painted eye- brows
and paused. Like an oldfashioned schoolmarm, she looked at me with a
slight tinge of contempt, as if I deserved to be the class dunce.
Praise be the Lord, she said. Maybe we need to get you into an
adults literacy program so you can learn to read and write.
OK.
My church has a great program! Perfect! Do you have a car?
No.
Umm . . . OK, so you must take the bus, then. Are there any churches
near where you live?
No. I live in an institution of other people like me.
She nodded slowly, straightened her back and folded her arms across
her chest. I noticed her pink fingernails looked professionally done,
as did her eyebrows, hair and quite possibly, her breasts. She took a
deep breath and slowly exhaled.
Do you go to church at all?
No.
Do you believe in God?
My Mamma always told me God was the drug of choice for people.
She smiled and laughed to herself. Why, yes! God IS a drug for many
people! I love that!
I shrugged before continuing. My Mamma always told me to listen to
Nancy Reagan. Nancy Reagan always told me to say no to drugs. God is a
drug. I say no to God.
She looked at me like she didnt know what to do or say next. Her
right hand went from her breast to her mouth, which was partially
open. For a second, silence passed between us.
How did you get your condition? How did you become deaf?
A faith healer made me deaf.
What!? No way! Really? You cant be serious! I saw cracks forming in
the schoolmarm image she projected.
When I was 5, I was blind, I continued, and my Mamma took me to a
faith healer and he cured my blindness.
Oh, thats wonderful! Wow! You were both deaf and blind?
I shook my head. No. The faith healer made me deaf.
An awkward silence passed between us (again).
I shrugged at her. When the faith healer healed my blind eyes, he
freaked out and screamed he blew out the speakers and my eardrums. I
am now deaf.
She remained frozen while her eyes danced wildly around my face. Her
mouth would alternately open and close like a fish out of water. I
felt a twinge of guilt for making her feel uncomfortable.
A faith healing gone wild, I added. She gasped and muttered
something I didnt understand.
People who go to church are drug addicts.
She shook her head at me. Thats not right. I can promise you Ive
never taken a drug in my life! Im not a drug addict.
My Mamma always told me God was opium of the masses. If you believe
in God, you are an opium addict.
She nervously shifted her body weight and her eyes darted from me
toward the windows, as if looking outside for help. I wondered if she
was asking for divine intervention.
A Starbucks employee announced that her drink was ready and she
quickly grabbed it. She hurriedly walked to a table, scribbled
something on a napkin and walked back toward me. Giving me the folded
napkin which had her phone number on it she told me she wanted my
Mamma to call her. I politely smiled at her.
I asked her to repeat the numbers out loud and she did. I told her I
couldnt read her name very well because it was not very legible
handwriting.
I thought you couldnt read?
I can only read in Braille, I told her.
Actually, Im in post-graduate school and an atheist. Just so you
know, not all deaf people are illiterate children who need salvation.
But thank you for your concern . . . and sorry.
Joshua Dawson is pursuing his doctoral degree in public policy and
administration at Walden University online. A part-time writer, Dawson
is author of the blog http://www.Paotie .com. And yes, he really is deaf.
poatie is a flirt a man looking for women to fall in love with him.
i told him i’m married and he doesn’t care.wondering how many women he chat with and fall in love with them.he did it to me and hurt my husband.wonder how many man he piss off.paotie leave married women alone.you are no good.
Paotie
Single
Body type: 4′ 2″ / More to love!-J.K.F
Ethnicity: White / Caucasian
Occupation: RabbleRouser
I see their vlogger and blogger include pictures of face, but Paotie owns his blog without the image of him.
*laughs*
Excellent! FREE PR!
*shrugs innocently and kicks a small pebble*
:o)
Paotie
Paotie,
Aren’t you going to give John Egbert any creditability of who you really are?
Now that tells me something about you!
Paotie won’t tell you who he is nor share what he looks like. All the less credibility for him, that is.
R-
Interesting that I was wrong because I had been gullible for thinking that Paotie was a woman but he is a MAN!!! Oh geez, I am tired of being gullible all the times like I did swallow a big fat whale!!
What is wrong with Paotie for not showing and telling who he is???? How come he did say where he goes to school???
Oooops! Sorry I need to correct my errors: How come Paotie did NOT say where he goes to school????
Seems like he tried to cover himself up???
I ain’t worried about my creditibility, so why are you?
*laughs*
:o)
Paotie
Joshua Dawson, aka Paotie, is taking online course with Walden University working on getting a DR degree in Public Policy and Admin.
He seems to know what he is talking about then,
Monday, December 04, 2006
Deaf hypocrisy
We live in a country of hypocrites. It isn’t that I’m tired of the hypocrisy ˆ it’s that people tend to deny that they’re hypocrites. Even worse, people pretend they are shocked and offended when other people are hypocrites.
How hypocritical can you get?
Today, I’ll pick on Deaf people. The hypocrisy Deaf people have towards the hearing world and other deaf people are amazingly simple to understand.
First, Deaf people love to be told that other deaf people “reject” their culture because they also reject ASL. Additionally, many proponents of this type of classification base their claims that anthropologists have made the Deaf culture valid and legitimate through the language of ASL. Anthropologists probably didn’t realize that their words and research findings (written in English) would be construed by Deaf culture to be something else entirely.
Deaf people and their proponents love to claim that the hearing world doesn’t understand the needs, feelings, emotions and intellectual capabilities of Deaf people. Moreover, they love to proclaim that their language (ASL) is THE language of all deaf people, and so if a deaf person somehow does not use ASL, they are immediately rejected from Deaf culture.
The hypocrisy lies in how Deaf people classify themselves, first as “Deaf,” and then subsequently compartmentalizes everyone else as different. According to this model, Deaf people reject the notion they have a disability; other deaf people who accept that they have a disability are called “deaf or hard of hearing,” which in general Deaf contextualization, is used to demarcate a negative connotation or derisive meaning towards those who do not subscribe to ASL.
Not every deaf person born in this country had the opportunity to learn ASL as a first language ˆ why would anyone demand or expect that they change languages from SEE, English or other to ASL simply because it’s the prerequisite for membership into an exclusive club (Deaf culture.) Even more alarming, in New Mexico, the Commission for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing is slowly turning into a “Deaf” Commission, as opposed to a governmental organization serving people with severe hearing losses (disabled or not.)What’s driving all this? Deaf schools, institutions and sign language interpreting programs. Why? Because they need the money to sustain their programs. This may be oversimplification of the Deaf system, however, even the historical process of ASL is still based on government-funded programs and institutions, which reinforces my belief that ASL and the whole notion of “Deaf” has only been invented and manipulated to advance governmental programs ˆ not for the Deaf people per se.
The hypocrisy also lies in something else: Deaf people love to pretend that hearing people don’t understand them. Additionally, the anthropologists (hearing people, no less) created a classification system to demarcate who was culturally deaf based on a single language; they also ignored the larger aspects of deaf people in this country and focused only on the governmental institutions, programs, schools and organizations. If anything, Deaf people should have rejected the anthropologists claims that Deaf culture exists merely because of a hearing model for cultures (language = culture). Except that Deaf people are unique both in the way they view society and also in the way they view themselves.
In the end, hypocrisy is what defines Deaf people. New terms to identify deaf people into further classifications continue (see: Deafhood), which is a stupid, silly notion expanded on by an English person, no less. Someday perhaps, deaf people will cease to classify everyone into nice little compartmentalized groups which serve no purpose than to create more divisive, negative and hypocritical views which do nothing but harm everyone.
Deaf people would preserve their culture and language (ASL) much better by removing the dependence so much of Deaf culture has on governmentally-funded programs or institutions. Rather than depend on these organizations to advance or facilitate the Deaf community and their needs, Deaf people need to start advocating for independent paradigms of who is deaf and how to describe their perspectives, experiences and contributions to society ˆ rather than manipulating anthropologists’ ill-defined terms used to describe deaf people and deaf culture.
Deaf is deaf is deaf.
ASL is a language, true ˆ but not ALL deaf people use ASL. If anything, Deaf culture should be defined simply as, “a person who is medically and legally deaf and experiences unique situations that most of (hearing) society does not.”None of this bullshit: “Deaf people are those who are too stupid to know what’s best for them, so we make governmental programs to help them.”
:o)
Paotie
JE,
Here’s my video response on your blog: http://asl.deafvideo.tv/video/fullscreen.html?id=3872
Have a very good Sunday!
ASL Risen ..
Well, I disagree with you, but that’s okay. We have different ideas and perspectives. And yes, we can work together, which is what the comment I left John (and which he published on his blog) asked him:
“What can I do?”
I tried.
By the way, have fun celebrating your son’s birthday.
The Colts vs Patriots game is gonna be exciting! Super Bowl in November!
:o)
Paotie
I find it so funny that Paotie refuses to identify himself and throwing some bombs at us about the concept of Deafhood. I guess he has no balls to tell us his own identification so he had to use his alias as Paotie.
I am sorry to say that. Paotie is not a true man. A true man would show himself and stand up in what he believes in. Paotie is a scared man. I hope that he will get some professional help so he can begin his journey of using his real name instead of cowering behind his childish alias.
-Eric
From http://www.gatago.org/alt/atheism/60292796.html
Silly assumptions open door to odd chat at Starbucks
By JOSHUA DAWSON
SPECIAL TO THE GAZETTE
September 16, 2007 - 7:04AM
At a Starbucks near my house, I was waiting for my order to be made
when a middle-age, white, petite woman with lots of makeup and brown
hair tightly wrapped in a bun approached me.
She asked me something and I couldnt understand her. I told her I was
deaf. She reacted as if I had been born without a brain and began
talking in slow motion, which didnt help me read her lips. Her words
were becoming blurred into one long word.
W h a a a a a t i s s s s s s y o u u u r - rnaaaaaame?
I asked her to talk normally and after a few tries, she started
speaking coherently. I told her my name and we shook hands. Her grip
was rather strong for a woman of her size, and a brief mental picture
of a Christian dominatrix popped into my skull. Do you know how to
read and write? she asked me. No. For some reason or another, lots
of people seem to think being deaf is the same as being Forrest Gump.
If it wasnt someone thinking I was medically stupid, then someone
else expected me to randomly quip, Life is like a box of chocolates.
You dont know how to read at all? No. What do you do for a
living? I do not work. She raised both of her painted eye- brows
and paused. Like an oldfashioned schoolmarm, she looked at me with a
slight tinge of contempt, as if I deserved to be the class dunce.
Praise be the Lord, she said. Maybe we need to get you into an
adults literacy program so you can learn to read and write.
OK.
My church has a great program! Perfect! Do you have a car?
No.
Umm . . . OK, so you must take the bus, then. Are there any churches
near where you live?
No. I live in an institution of other people like me.
She nodded slowly, straightened her back and folded her arms across
her chest. I noticed her pink fingernails looked professionally done,
as did her eyebrows, hair and quite possibly, her breasts. She took a
deep breath and slowly exhaled.
Do you go to church at all?
No.
Do you believe in God?
My Mamma always told me God was the drug of choice for people.
She smiled and laughed to herself. Why, yes! God IS a drug for many
people! I love that!
I shrugged before continuing. My Mamma always told me to listen to
Nancy Reagan. Nancy Reagan always told me to say no to drugs. God is a
drug. I say no to God.
She looked at me like she didnt know what to do or say next. Her
right hand went from her breast to her mouth, which was partially
open. For a second, silence passed between us.
How did you get your condition? How did you become deaf?
A faith healer made me deaf.
What!? No way! Really? You cant be serious! I saw cracks forming in
the schoolmarm image she projected.
When I was 5, I was blind, I continued, and my Mamma took me to a
faith healer and he cured my blindness.
Oh, thats wonderful! Wow! You were both deaf and blind?
I shook my head. No. The faith healer made me deaf.
An awkward silence passed between us (again).
I shrugged at her. When the faith healer healed my blind eyes, he
freaked out and screamed he blew out the speakers and my eardrums. I
am now deaf.
She remained frozen while her eyes danced wildly around my face. Her
mouth would alternately open and close like a fish out of water. I
felt a twinge of guilt for making her feel uncomfortable.
A faith healing gone wild, I added. She gasped and muttered
something I didnt understand.
People who go to church are drug addicts.
She shook her head at me. Thats not right. I can promise you Ive
never taken a drug in my life! Im not a drug addict.
My Mamma always told me God was opium of the masses. If you believe
in God, you are an opium addict.
She nervously shifted her body weight and her eyes darted from me
toward the windows, as if looking outside for help. I wondered if she
was asking for divine intervention.
A Starbucks employee announced that her drink was ready and she
quickly grabbed it. She hurriedly walked to a table, scribbled
something on a napkin and walked back toward me. Giving me the folded
napkin which had her phone number on it she told me she wanted my
Mamma to call her. I politely smiled at her.
I asked her to repeat the numbers out loud and she did. I told her I
couldnt read her name very well because it was not very legible
handwriting.
I thought you couldnt read?
I can only read in Braille, I told her.
Actually, Im in post-graduate school and an atheist. Just so you
know, not all deaf people are illiterate children who need salvation.
But thank you for your concern . . . and sorry.
Joshua Dawson is pursuing his doctoral degree in public policy and
administration at Walden University online. A part-time writer, Dawson
is author of the blog http://www.Paotie .com. And yes, he really is deaf.
poatie is a flirt a man looking for women to fall in love with him.
i told him i’m married and he doesn’t care.wondering how many women he chat with and fall in love with them.he did it to me and hurt my husband.wonder how many man he piss off.paotie leave married women alone.you are no good.