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loafy013 posted...

Are you aware of how hostile some segments of the deaf community are when it comes to things like cochlear implants? If a deaf actor played a role and acted like they could hear, the outrage would make things like a black Ariel or the all female ghostbusters reaction look like positive praise for the changes.

As someone who has hung around the deaf community for nearly 5 years at uni, I can confirm this to a degree. Can't remember what course it was or what function it served to the overall course (might have been a tech related one), but there was a video that one of my professors played that was about cochlear implants, and the video was all across the map from someone who was like "hell yes this tech is revolutionary" to a dad whose son got a cochlear implant and reacted like a homophobic father whose son came out of the closet.