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Old 03-21-2017, 11:10 AM
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Originally Posted by EnglishJW View Post
Get real. You aren't on top of any fence. What happened to my questions for you? You know, when I asked you about your use of what I regarded as pejorative terms like deafies, hearies and mentally retarded? Why did your posts and my questions disappear?

Since you really have no appreciation of what The Villages is, I would have thought you might have grasped the extent of the damage and ill will generated by this action through your reading. I am amazed that you perceive yourself as neutral here.

Moreover, this action and any resulting actions will not (IMO) lead to any constructive outcomes. People have been forced into positions as adversaries. Sure, there will be some people who are sympathetic to the plaintiffs. On the other hand, if all of this had been handled differently, I sincerely believe the vast majority would have been supportive. I no longer think this is possible. How many people lost as a result of what has happened? Who didn't get to take a class? Who didn't get to teach a class? How does that number compare with 34 or 21? This was not the way to handle what happened here. That is the lesson I hope you have learned as well.
First of all, I am not involved in any of this. I was not aware until late in December when I heard LLC was being shut down, and a friend in Melbourne emailed me, asking me what was going on. If I were living in TV, I would have known about this right from the beginning, and it is my regret that any of this had to happen. I am putting my modesty aside; I believe I could have prevented the LLC from being closed. But this is in the past, and I am hoping that LLC will truly provide interpreters so this will soon be forgotten.

The terms deafies and hearies are not meant to be derogatory but are used as shorthand for "the deaf people" and "the hearing people"and are commonly used even by the hearing who are acquainted with the deaf, and I am sorry you choose to be hypersensitive when you are not even deaf.

Are there any more questions you say I have not answered?