The Discriminating Airlines.
The airlines refuse to discriminate against Middle Easterners. Political correctness trumps national security, especially when it comes to the security checkpoints. Of course, I understand. If I was named Abdullah, and I wore both a full beard and a red checkered kaffiyeh, I would definitely hate it if I was given a body cavity search every time I flew to Pakistan to visit my uncle Osama with a couple layover days in Londonistan visiting my friends at the mosque to brush up on my Koranic studies. 90% of Muslims are not terrorists. Naturally, it ain't fair if we discriminate against Middle Easterners.
But, why discriminate against deaf people, not at the security checkpoints, but inflight? Inflight discrimination! It is blatant discrimination, audism, whatever you want to call it, when the airlines refuse to enable captioned in-flight entertainment. Yes, it costs money, but the technological solutions abound. Not all that much money, really.
Ridor had something to say about this in his What Airlines Does The Best -- Discrimination! post. Check it out. That yet again compelled me to utilize the sword of my pen, er, keyboard in his comments page. Here's what I said:
A couple decades ago, it was THE LAW that blacks had to pay taxes and pass literacy tests in order to VOTE.
Many blacks accepted it as fact, because it was the law. But, a few decided to fight back.
We cannot simply allow JetBlue and the other airlines blatantly disregard the utter lack of equal access.
When the safety video comes on before all jetblue flights, I always seethe because it's captioned!!! VERY hypocritical on the part of JetBlue! That applirs to all other airlines that show captioned safety videos then go on to show uncaptioned movies.
JetBlue has been the #1 ranked domestic airline the plast 3 years, I believe. It is time to hold them up to their reputation as customer-oriented.
I checked their website, and their CEO, David Neeleman was quoted saying "When we started JetBlue more than four years ago, we set out to bring humanity back to air travel and to make flying more enjoyable."
Bring humanity back to air travel??? Right now, to me, JetBlue is crock-full of cowdung.
Laws are not necessarily mandatory for the manifestation of humanity. We don't have to change the law to be humane. JUST DO IT, FOR GOD'S SAKE! BE HUMANE!
It must have been torture for intelligent blacks (Frederick Douglass, George Washington Carver, and so on) to be denied access to all good things- libraries, restaurants, etc, while watching ignorant, uneducated whites unappreciably accessing these things. As it is, it is torture to endure a 6-hour flight, totally bored (with eyes too fatigued to comfortably read a book) while the person sitting next to me and every other person in the plane is watching whatever they want on TV. Salt is rubbed in the wound when I see someone laughing from something funny on TV. The History and Discovery channels are my absolute favorites. I watch them ALL the time at home. and it is absolute torture to suffer through a cross-country nonstop flight where I have access to these channels without captions. Animal Channel for 6 hours is quite too much when you have plenty of other non-choices.
If the hearing people REALLY want us to be assimilated with the general population, then this just doesn't help their cause at all.
But, why discriminate against deaf people, not at the security checkpoints, but inflight? Inflight discrimination! It is blatant discrimination, audism, whatever you want to call it, when the airlines refuse to enable captioned in-flight entertainment. Yes, it costs money, but the technological solutions abound. Not all that much money, really.
Ridor had something to say about this in his What Airlines Does The Best -- Discrimination! post. Check it out. That yet again compelled me to utilize the sword of my pen, er, keyboard in his comments page. Here's what I said:
A couple decades ago, it was THE LAW that blacks had to pay taxes and pass literacy tests in order to VOTE.
Many blacks accepted it as fact, because it was the law. But, a few decided to fight back.
We cannot simply allow JetBlue and the other airlines blatantly disregard the utter lack of equal access.
When the safety video comes on before all jetblue flights, I always seethe because it's captioned!!! VERY hypocritical on the part of JetBlue! That applirs to all other airlines that show captioned safety videos then go on to show uncaptioned movies.
JetBlue has been the #1 ranked domestic airline the plast 3 years, I believe. It is time to hold them up to their reputation as customer-oriented.
I checked their website, and their CEO, David Neeleman was quoted saying "When we started JetBlue more than four years ago, we set out to bring humanity back to air travel and to make flying more enjoyable."
Bring humanity back to air travel??? Right now, to me, JetBlue is crock-full of cowdung.
Laws are not necessarily mandatory for the manifestation of humanity. We don't have to change the law to be humane. JUST DO IT, FOR GOD'S SAKE! BE HUMANE!
It must have been torture for intelligent blacks (Frederick Douglass, George Washington Carver, and so on) to be denied access to all good things- libraries, restaurants, etc, while watching ignorant, uneducated whites unappreciably accessing these things. As it is, it is torture to endure a 6-hour flight, totally bored (with eyes too fatigued to comfortably read a book) while the person sitting next to me and every other person in the plane is watching whatever they want on TV. Salt is rubbed in the wound when I see someone laughing from something funny on TV. The History and Discovery channels are my absolute favorites. I watch them ALL the time at home. and it is absolute torture to suffer through a cross-country nonstop flight where I have access to these channels without captions. Animal Channel for 6 hours is quite too much when you have plenty of other non-choices.
If the hearing people REALLY want us to be assimilated with the general population, then this just doesn't help their cause at all.
3 Comments:
Amen! You nailed on this, period.
I felt that there are too many apologists on Deaf people's part when it comes to secure our dignity.
R-
10% are terrorists???? I sure as hell hope you're wrong! :)
- DeafBlogs.net
I guess I meant to say 99.9998%, I noticed that myself, too ;-)
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