TYB!
How would you summarize the pattern, anon?
Gallaudet was historically a college for the deaf
>Facebook built up a stockpile of masks in case wildfires in its home state of California persisted
720,000 of them?
>$7,000,000 for one specific DC charter school, Gallaudet University
re Pelosi wanting money for Gallaudet University in COVID-19 relief bill
$7,000,000 for one specific DC charter school, Gallaudet University
Deaf community has been extremely politicized for years–there is a radical movement within thatn community that sees deafness as an identity (identity politics big time) and is probably very aligned with dem platform (or more radical). Would definitely embrace "audism":
(from Google:) Audism is a term used to describe a negative attitude toward deaf or hard of hearing people. It is typically thought of as a form of discrimination, prejudice, or a general lack of willingness to accommodate those who cannot hear.Feb 12, 2020
Gallaudet University Needs Radical Students
Sept 13, 2013 article
Excerpt:
Let’s go back to activism. Students at Gallaudet University need to create a radical social justice group to organize various awareness campaigns, as well as to provide a community for students’ interest in organizing radical social justice activities to stop and minimize Audism, especially at the university.
The word “radical” comes from the word, ‘raddix’ which means ‘from the root’. “Radical” means going to the root and radical social justice attempts to challenge oppression and injustice at the root. That means, instead of organizing around talking points specific to a particular political party, radical social justice attempts to challenge the very institutions that includes Gallaudet University that maintains inequity in our society. Gallaudet University needs to apologize for their actions for selling the tickets to designate and leave many Deaf students to be lacking in their personal identity. The students at Gallaudet need to learn how to be radicalized and to be a revolutionary apple….
https://audismnegatsurdi.com/2013/09/13/gallaudet-university-needs-radical-students/
Nancy is very involved in this college, but not yet sure why she seems to have such as big role in determining policy:
Monday, March 23, 2020
Speaker Pelosi's Choices for Gallaudet University Board of Trustees Public Members Fall Short of Ideal
March 23, 2020
TODAY!!
House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi recently announced the selection of two Members of Congress to be seated on the Gallaudet University Board of Trustees as public (Congressional) members. The choices follow a medical-pathological approach to deafness and are less than ideal on that basis. As part of its new educational integrity campaign, Student Unity Movement calls on Speaker Pelosi to monitor the appointments closely.
What's the Student Unity Movement?
https://www.prweb.com/releases/speaker_pelosi_s_choices_for_gallaudet_university_board_of_trustees_public_members_fall_short_of_ideal/prweb16915447.htm
'''Study Unity Movement >>Unity for Gallaudet'''
radical student movement at Gallaudet since 2006
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unity_for_Gallaudet
have no idea what this is really about yet
but wanted to post as an initial launching pad to a bigger DIG