Tuesday, January 14, 2025
LA Is Burning, and the Right Is Furious—About Sign Language Interpreters – Mother Jones
In emergency updates, American Sign Language interpreters are crucial to the safety of Deaf people—close to a million of whom live in the Los Angeles area alone.They've also become the latest target of right-wing online influencers like Turning Point USA head Charlie Kirk, who offered a very obnoxious take on his eponymous Charlie Kirk Show last Wednesday, calling live ASL interpretation a "distraction" in the context of the fires;other right-wing media figures have piled on, adding ASL to the increasingly preposterous list of "woke" practices somehow related to the fires...
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