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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 8746036" data-attributes="member: 18">I think you're misinterpreting &quot;anti-ableists&quot;. I mean people who are against disability discrimination, not like, people who are against able people or whatever. You don't &quot;need to be aware of&quot; them, I mean what are you talking about? They're not a threat to anybody. They're just people trying to help who in some cases could stand to be a bit less Americanocentric in their assumptions.If you think there hasn't been an issue with ASL being thought of as the only sign language by certain (often otherwise quite knowledgeable) sections of the American populace, though (and some non-Americans who are a bit ignorant about disability issues), then I'm afraid you are wrong, sadly. An awful lot of people just assume there's &quot;sign language&quot; and that it's somehow international, and because of the dominance of US media, they tend to assume it's ASL. I mention anti-ableist people as I found it shocking (hence the word &quot;even&quot; being used) that people who consider themselves disability activists would not know this - but there are plenty who don't.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 8746036, member: 18"] I think you're misinterpreting "anti-ableists". I mean people who are against disability discrimination, not like, people who are against able people or whatever. You don't "need to be aware of" them, I mean what are you talking about? They're not a threat to anybody. They're just people trying to help who in some cases could stand to be a bit less Americanocentric in their assumptions. If you think there hasn't been an issue with ASL being thought of as the [I]only[/I] sign language by certain (often otherwise quite knowledgeable) sections of the American populace, though (and some non-Americans who are a bit ignorant about disability issues), then I'm afraid you are wrong, sadly. An awful lot of people just assume there's "sign language" and that it's somehow international, and because of the dominance of US media, they tend to assume it's ASL. I mention anti-ableist people as I found it shocking (hence the word "even" being used) that people who consider themselves disability activists would not know this - but there are plenty who don't. [/QUOTE]

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