Some students at NTID have set up a petition for the removal of a plaque honoring AG Bell, and it has over 160 signatures at the time of this writing. I think it’s cool that people are pulling together for something that they care about, and I hope the petition is successful. AG Bell does not deserve to be honored.
However, what strikes me the most are people’s apparent priorities. When I started the Bahl petition, a petition to object against police brutality against the Deaf, the Bahl petition barely squeaked past a hundred signatures.
Judging by the amount of signatures on the two petitions, police brutality is not as important for the Deaf Community as removing a plaque from a dorm and renaming said dorm.
I can’t help but wince at that.
Some students at NTID have set up a petition for the removal of a plaque honoring AG Bell, and it has over 160 signatures at the time of this writing. I think it’s cool that people are pulling together for something that they care about, and I hope the petition is successful. AG Bell does not deserve to be honored.
However, what strikes me the most are people’s apparent priorities. When I started the Bahl petition, a petition to object against police brutality against the Deaf, the Bahl petition barely squeaked past a hundred signatures.
Judging by the amount of signatures on the two petitions, police brutality is not as important for the Deaf Community as removing a plaque from a dorm and renaming said dorm.
I can’t help but wince at that.