The silence of discrimination:
Hoh and deaf people get discriminated against all the time.
The hearing world is like:
“Huh, what do you mean discriminating against people who can’t hear? I didn’t know anything was different about them.”
Just because you can’t see someone’s obstacle doesn’t mean they don’t still face that obstacle every single day.
My adult (but still a teen) daughter was told by a major grocery store chain — they wouldn’t hire her until she had new hearing aids. And seeing as she needed a job to make money, she obviously couldn’t afford thousands of dollars for new hearing aids.
They hired a male hearie friend of hers the same day. Surprise!
She was hired for a different job as a hostess at a restaurant, and when she asked if she could be a server because that position paid more, the manager told her no because she couldn’t hear. She can still hear with hearing aids.
So...ya know, more lovely discrimination, based on all that shit they’re not supposed to discriminate you for — class, race, religion, disability, gender, age...that no one ever talks about.
