Link is coconut-pilled. 🥥 🌴: Fuck CNN. As the article notes, ASL and English are two separate languages and not interchangeable. CNN would know that if they actually gave a shit.

Fuck CNN. As the article notes, ASL and English are two separate languages and not interchangeable. CNN would know that if they actually gave a shit.

90 disability orgs wrote a letter to @cnn.com asking them to make the Presidential debate more accessible and for them to cover at least some topics of particular interest to disability communities. They didn’t get a response. But I did.

90 disability organizations call on CNN to make the presidential debate more accessible19thnews.org A letter to the network requests American Sign Language interpreters and that moderators ask about topics relevant to the disability community, like COVID-19 and special education.

I keep coming back to this. Ableism is just people not giving a fuck.

yes.

I was honestly shocked and I’m glad my editors let me be slightly bitchy about it.

It’s just so incredibly ignorant and uninformed. I cannot believe it’s real honestly.

CNN is afraid that sign language interpreters—commonly used on newscasts around the globe—might just provide too much context for the rest of us

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