>>97884038It's said that blindness cuts you off from the physical world, while deafness cuts you off from people. I don't know how true that is, but I can easily see how the deaf community would be more insular and tight-knit than those arising around other disabilities.
Any community will have at least some resistance to changes from the outside, whether that change grows or shrinks it. I suspect that, also like other communities, it's just a small percentage of assholes that are crying the loudest...well, you know what I mean.
