It feels weird to me too, especially the explosion of awareness of people with disabilities over the last 7-8 years. My theory is that, in general, and not just sign language, it’s a combo of three things:
Good old fashion virtue signaling
Trying to turn leftism into a religion
To justify invasive tech
The first is obvious but if you think about it, a huge component of Christianity is caring for the sick and less fortunate. There’s something in human nature where people want to help those in need. This tries to fill that void for lefties, and recruit from the ranks of well meaning normies. As for the tech part, features that are invasive towards your privacy mesh well with disability features. Is it a feature that scans YouTube videos to auto-generate subtitles for deaf people? Or is it a backdoor method for scanning content for subjects they want to ban from their platform?
Slightly off topic, I know, but those are my thoughts on this whole disabilities movement.
It feels weird to me too, especially the explosion of awareness of people with disabilities over the last 7-8 years. My theory is that, in general, and not just sign language, it’s a combo of three things:
The first is obvious but if you think about it, a huge component of Christianity is caring for the sick and less fortunate. There’s something in human nature where people want to help those in need. This tries to fill that void for lefties, and recruit from the ranks of well meaning normies. As for the tech part, features that are invasive towards your privacy mesh well with disability features. Is it a feature that scans YouTube videos to auto-generate subtitles for deaf people? Or is it a backdoor method for scanning content for subjects they want to ban from their platform?
Slightly off topic, I know, but those are my thoughts on this whole disabilities movement.