Anarchy? Terrorism? Gun? What next?
What is Jane doing? All this talk about anarchy, terrorism, and now guns?
This is a peaceful and civil protest. Why is she trying to portray the protestors as out of control and dangerous?
Is this a ploy to build up sympathy from the media and the community about how she is being “victimized” by the protesters?
Or might there be another reason?
I cannot help wondering about the timing. Is this in preparation for the massive invasion of alumni, estimated roughly 5,000, for the homecoming weekend, in defiance of Jordan’s cancellations of these events? In other words, are they considering about a possible police raid?
If so, is she building up support in advance by mischaracterizing the protesters? If the police come and arrest students, the public would view this as justified as the campus is in mayhem with students masquerading as “criminals”?
I honestly have no idea where she is going with this kind of talk, but her conduct is unprofessional, unethical, and unbecoming of a president-appointee. This outrageous talk needs to be condemned as soon as possible. She is creating more damage to Gallaudet University, which she professes a deep love for.
Protesters should emphasize to the reporters that not only is this protest peaceful and civil, but that nobody condones violence, vandalism, or harassment.
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umm she just said in washington post that she will do anything to resolve the crisis, then she need to RESIGN!!
Interesting.
She is right! There is nothing about the protests at gally that is peaceful… in May I would have disagreed with her comments, but now?! Since the take over of HMB protesters stopped being peaceful. People are scared and protesters are causing it. People accuse JKF of using fear to get the media on her side… the same way that the protesters use fear of DPS to get the media on THEIR side. These games need to stop. Protesters want attention and want to have their version of DPN, but their reasons are not strong like they were in 1988.
As the saying goes, “Deaf People can do anything but hear”
Ironically, “Fernie can do anything but resign!”
Mishka Zena, the method is called “Dehumanization”. It’s a very, very old trick. Dehumanizing them by accusing them as being “criminals”, “homosexuals”, “anarchists”, “communists”, “terrorists”, et al; to reduce them any less than “humans”, figuratively-speaking in the population view, to justify their next strategical arrangement. I meant, would you vote or support Republican or Democrat if they’ve been accused as an alleged pedophile?
I’m not big on the conspiracy theory nonsense but the method has been used in the past and it worked effectively.
And incidentally, it’s not a gun. The interpreter interpreted: “I’ve been threatened to be shot. Yes.” That’s it and I think it’s the same old statement she made back in the May protest?
Keep up with the good work!
Those who support JKF have repeated portrayed the protest as anarchy. It is their tactic, however ineffective it may be. When I have encouraged supporters of JKF to read the blogs and view the vlogs, I have been told it is all “ugly stuff.” Ugly stuff? On the contrary, I find immeasurable beauty in a myriad of written comments and vlogs I see posted on line with each passing day. JFK supporters point to the inappropriate acts performed by a few in the heat of passion and imply that the entire protest has a “rude” or intimidating flavor. I don’t see anarchy. I don’t see terrorism. I see spirit chilling filmic visions by mosdeux, compelling arguments (i.e., about the structures of audism in the Gallaudet guidelines for faculty communication) signed in the most articulate ASL by Ryan Commerson, and a worldwide community linking hands in support of a noble cause. I see Mishka Zena nurturing the information-hungry with updates from Tent City Central again and again each day. If only Laurent Clerc were here today to see this moment in history when MORE THAN 82 % of the entire world of Deaf Americans stands together in resistance of oppression.
lipstick you got it right. I went to the campus when HMB was locked down and the students were conducting themselves with maturity and civility. It’s amazing how Jane tries to portray the deaf students in such negative light, after working with students for six years at the university.
jean, what you said makes sense with what I lipread. She sure didn’t sign clearly. I wasn’t aware she claimed that she receive death threats last may.
How many times do I have to post this specific description that fit JKF in appropriate ones like this one? Every time there’s a subject related to her mindset?
egocentric
e•go•cen•tric
Pronunciation: (ē”gō-sen’trik, eg”ō-), [key]
—adj.
1. having or regarding the self or the individual as the center of all things: an egocentric philosophy that ignores social causes.
2. having little or no regard for interests, beliefs, or attitudes other than one’s own; self-centered: an egocentric person; egocentric demands upon the time and patience of others.
Gun? Person with a gun? NO, just a “threat”.
I watched the news clip several times, reviewing both JK’s signing and the interpreter’s voicing. JK never said a person with a gun threatened her. She said “I have been threatened to be shot.”
For all we know, someone on some random blog, at some random time posted a comment saying something like “that woman should be shot for the way she is acting.” This is a common English phrase one uses to express condemnation of someone’s behavior, and is not to be taken literally.
So here’s my take on it: there was no person with a gun, there was no gun, there may not have been an actual threat. This is just more PR-type twisting of reality.
Mishka Zena, please consider clarifying the headlines of your posts on this “threatened to be shot” issue. Just” never mentioned a person, a gun, or the timing or medium of the so-called threat. Thanks.
She did not say someone threatened her with a gun. She said she had been threatened to be shot. There is a difference. The latter could have been taken out of context in a blog, e-mail, or any written communication. The former really implies someone had a gun and was in close proximity to her.
It is unfortunate that NBC did not provide a transcript of their video. I was lucky enough to find a hearing friend to interpret the video for me. Even watching the video myself I can see that no one threatened her with a gun.
I don’t want to see this get blown out of perspective any more than it already is.
A Late-Deafened Gallaudet Student
I viewed the news video clip, and yes she did say “yes, with a gun”. I read her lips, it clearly said “gun”.
I went back to the video and took a closer look. My apologies. She actually said “… Yes, I have been threatened to be shot, yes”…
http://video.nbc4.com/player.html?dlid=38759
You’ll have to watch the commerical, and as soon as it’s done, you can fast foward until the play numbers show :22 seconds left. That’s the exact scene.
At any rate, where is proof of this? It is the first time I’ve heard of it. It is definitely a tactic to get sympathy by the media and possibly to rationalize a raid during this weekend.
Be assured, I along with thousands of people will be keeping an eye on the blogs this weekend. My heart goes out to you guys. Hopefully the 5,000 people will actually show up and crowd GU, make it full up to the brim.
You know, on another note, it seems that the administration is confident that the protests are going to end. I’ll bet they are hoping that the weather will help.
UNITY FOR GU!
JANE, RESIGN!
JANE, RESIGN!
How do you sign “BE SHOT”? If JKF mouthed “yes, with a gun”, then please rest assured that you are not crazy. Either the interpreter or JKF is! It’s a malicious gossip aimed at splitting the Deaf community… divide and conquer!
Anarchy? Terrorism? Gun? What next?
Answer: bomb, missile
More next?
nuclear bomb
i disagree on guns comments..you cant make up the story about threat shot with guns..it is bad gossip. Students have right to protest because The Bill Rights tells that people have right for assembly.
Hello anon, you are right!
Is JKF trying to act like blaming on the peaceful protesters’ threat on the media all over again?
Frozen Face,
I suspect it’s a ploy to get sympathy from the media as well as to get the police to be on the watch out for this weekend. Dirty trick…
I agreed FSSA did Dirty trick.
Please go get a counselor to see jane right away. I believe she really needs mental counseling immediately. Please do this. It has been proved to us that she has mental exhaustion or breakdown with no question, do you agree?
This shows that we all lead Gallaudet University for what we want for them to have. We have rights to do what we want for Gallaudet University to have through our caring. Go get a better person to lead the entire Gallaudet community.
I happen to know she has been threatened and stalked as well as other people close to her. These are facts people.
When students can’t go to school because entrances have been blocked and are being intimidated this is a form of terrorism.
The student protesters are being used by the FSSA. AT the end the Faculty will sit back and possibly say job well done. Now good luck trying to fix your lives. They are upset with some management decisions JKF has made nothing else. But they got you students wrapped up in personally attacking IKJ, JKF and the BoT.
Your doing a wonderful job for the FSSA in your hateful approach to a issue which does not require such dispisable contempful comments.
I don’t believe all protesters are involved in the threats and violence so the few of you that are not should try and get some control. You are ending up looking like FOOLS!
As I read this part of article: “Fernandes said that she will stay, that she has support. The faculty asked, without 82% of the support of the faculty, what can Fernandes do as a leader? Fernandes told them that she had a plan and that she wouldn’t tell them what the plan was because she’s currently focused on current issues that are popping up and adjusting the plan as she goes.”
To my opinion that JKF wouldn’t tell them what the plan was, she is not going to get the chance from us to give her! Why? She won’t lead us “good TEAMwork”. Someone (sorry I forgot name) told me “One Famous Deaf man, (I think but I am not sure if it’s Frank Turk’s) quoted with the fingerspelled as T.E.A.M. stands for Together Everyone Achieve More”.
Look at JKF won’t tell the faculty what is her plan? Whoa!!!! That proofs us that she will NOT COOPERATING with us! That’s not UNITY! She is acting like “Me, Me, Me”, the Mrs. Know Everything Attitude just like not wanting to cooperating as a TEAMwork! That’s JKF’s entirely (mocking or teasing) hostile behaviours towards the faculty!
The faculty who strive their serve to the community! They do deserve the united cooperating as TEAMwork! The faculty do not need to feel LEFT BEHIND!
Also I read “because she’s currently focused on current issues that are popping up and adjusting the plan as she goes.” That proofs that she wants to have WAR with us by going and making her own plans to adjust the medias blaming on the protesters and our deaf community!!!
Whenever JKF and her cronies see anything popping up out from us,the protesters’ words and who cannot understand our different diversity ASL body language stylish, JKF and her cronies will be stubbornly ACCUSE and BLAME on us, the deaf community and the protesters!
Blaming will NOT resolve the crisis! We do NOT NEED the “BLAMING” and “NOT GOOD ENOUGH” Leader!
Hope that helps the protesters to feel better and be strong to stay in peaceful for this weekend!
Long Live the Peaceful Protesters!
Respectfully yours, FF
I am not surprised that you all would disregard such a serious statement by Dr. Fernandes. The FSSA has used most of the other tactics in the book, which has caused mush shame and embarrassment on the deaf community. It does not surprise me that people have threatened her, when the language in the bison salon during the lock down of HMB showed some very graphic and shameful statements. The FSSA has to RESIGN and GROW-UP, you do not represent the whole deaf community, and stop acting as you are… I don’t ever recall seeing the FSSA as an official group affiliated with Gallaudet, so pack your bags and go home… I am tired of hearing about the FSSA, and seeing them damage the community even more, and come on, get real, you can’t possibly think 5000 people are coming to campus this weekend, that’s an overstatement…. Your tactics have caused enough damage, and without any success your all going to be home soon, because you failed your semester at Gallaudet wasting tax payers money! Let Dr. Fernandes be the leader she can be, let her take Gallaudet to the next level!
Jane said students are doing ancharcy, terrorism? UH? What? Are we now labeled as terrorist?
Come on Jane! Wake up! Students and staff have been doing protesting peacefully.
Do you see violence? Do you see students smashing cars?
Do you see students setting fires on campus?
Wake up Jane! You are the problem, you see students and teachers in bad light. That is wrong!
Resign now and let students move on and finish their studies as they pay for college and teachers can go back teaching at what they excel at.
Students are hardworking people who strive for excellence, they are not wealthy, some students work 2 to 3 jobs to pay for college.
You, Jane are earning $800,000 a year sitting high and mighty and telling us in bad light! Resign now Jane!
Long live protesters, I fully support you!
To Whom It May Concern:
Before I begin, I would like to say that I am in 200% support of the protests. I am hoping that it will continue and drive hard until Jane Fernandes is out of Gallaudet. I am also hoping that Jordan will resign himself as well.
From all the blogs, articles, media, etc, there are two sides to this story- the protester’s story & the administration’s story. While there is an overwhelming support for the protesters, there is some support for Fernandes. This is the problem. There are too many people that support her. Even if there is just one person that supports her, that is one too many.
For Fernandes supporters- I would like you pro-Fernandes’ers to consider this. Now, let’s put aside what the protesters are saying. Let’s put aside what the media is saying. In fact, let’s put aside what everybody is saying. There are some of you that say that Jane Fernandes is qualified to be president of Gallaudet. Some of you even think she more than qualifies.
But, I would like you to take a CLOSE look at these facts:
1) There are thousands and thousands of Deaf people that are NOT in support of her, including a good percentage of Gallaudet students as well as 82% of the faculty. A lot of big names have spoken against her such as Frank Turk, Bob Davila, Jack Gannon, Donalda Ammons, Yerker Andersson, and other such important figures in the Deaf community. Even NAD denounced her. Many other large organizations has denounced her and condemned her actions and statements in the media. Isn’t that enough already to fire her from the position?
This in itself speaks volumes. If all of those Deaf people don’t want to follow Fernandes, then how can she be a leader? How can she be a president of a University that doesn’t want her? If she is such a good leader why isn’t she able to “control” the protesters? Why isn’t she able to keep most Deaf people happy? Being a president very much requires the ability to interact with people, of which Jane Fernandes lacks.
2) Jane Fernandes said, “I am the only one that can lead this university”. Now, let’s
analyze that. I’d like to bring back the previous point that I made. If people will not follow her, then how can she be a leader? Therefore, she is incapable of leading the university. In addition to this fact, she has effectively INSULTED other candidates. She has effectively told these people “you are incapable. I am better than you.” She has effectively insulted many Deaf people out there that is very qualified to run the university but chose not to apply for the position. Isn’t that enough to rub someone the wrong way? Isn’t that a bad choice, to announce that in the media? What if something happened to Fernandes, and someone else took over? The media and congress would be led to believe that there is nobody else qualified to fill in the position, when that is not true at all. See the paradox here?
3) Please view this news video clip of Fernandes: http://video.nbc4.com/player.html?dlid=38759
You will have to wait for the commercial to be done with before it starts. Anyway, please take the time to analyze her sign language. Fernandes has claimed many times that she has ASL skills. I am an ASL instructor at a community college, and I train interpreters in a degree program.
Now, her signing is not ASL at all. She is missing non-manual markers- this means the mouthing such as when you say “finally”, you say “pah”. If there is a large cylindrical object, you say “cha”. If you say someone squirmed completely, you say “bam”. These are examples of non-manual markers. There is no usage of non-manual markers at all in her presentation. In fact, she signed word for word and spoke at the same time. That is called Sim-com, utilizing Pidgin Signed English with a tendency towards Signed English.
She also did not utilize classifiers. Classifiers are hand shapes for example, if you talk about a car, you use the “3” handshape to signify a car and how it goes somewhere. If you are talking about a ball bouncing, you use the “C” hand shape to signify the ball, and the movement shows the ball moving, and how it moved. Fernandes did not utilize classifiers at all in her interview. She did not utilize proper ASL structure. She was signing in English order- for example “I went to the store.” When in reality, true ASL follows French grammar- “Store, there, I go.” She did not utilize that at all. In addition to that, ASL signers do not speak word for word.
Proper ASL aside, there is a lot of signs that she uses that is awkward. While her signing is fairly clear Pidgin Signed English, even I, myself- with an expert eye for languages had to take a double take. A good example of this would be if you viewed the clip above, and went to :22 seconds, you will see she signed “Yes, with a gun”. But look at her signing. Does it match? The answer is no.
If she cannot communicate properly in ASL, then she is not signing the true language of the Deaf. Pidgin Signed English and Signed Exact English are NOT languages. They are communication tools, and it has been proven over and over that they are not languages. ASL is the ONLY language in America that is officially recognized as the actual language of the Deaf.
If that is true, then this alone does not qualify her to be president of Gallaudet University. After all, would you hire a person that speaks in Broken English to be president of the United States? I don’t think so. Since PSE and SEE are communication tools, and not a language, using these two languages can be considered “Broken”.
4) Please view the video again: http://video.nbc4.com/player.html?dlid=38759
Fast forward to 1:15. She is mixing a peaceful protest with anarchy. Unfortunately, Jane Fernandes allowed things to escalate… And the result was more anger & more aggression on the protester’s part. It’s human nature. Whose fault is that? Both Jordan and Fernandes are responsible for how far the protest has gotten. But, she has gone far to say that the protesters are anarchists & dissenters. That in itself is a very bad move on Fernandes’ part. Why? Deaf people are already under a microscope in the hearing community. Deaf people are already experiencing audism and discrimination. Fernandes’ statements only will increase those acts by hearing audists out there. It will only emphasize that Deaf people are incapable of running things. It will only invoke feelings from the public that Deaf people are dumb.
This is also true for her emphasis on “I’m not Deaf enough” statement. It is very misleading. She did not take the time to explain the term ‘audism’, and explain that the protesters are upset with her because she is continually making the Deaf community look bad, continually making audistic comments such as “Deaf children have been prevented from having hearing tests.”
Allow me to explain that hearing tests, hearing aids, cochlear implants, speech therapy, Signed English, Pidgin Signed English, & oralism are all a result of audism. How is that? Think about it.
The fact that there are hearing aids suggests that hearing people feel that Deaf people’s hearing NEEDS TO BE FIXED. They view it as a HEARING PROBLEM. That is audistic. The same is true for speech therapy. They want us Deaf people to imitate hearing people like how a parrot would imitate humans. They want us to be the SAME AS THEM. They do not want to leave this uniqueness of being Deaf alone… They do not want to leave it up to the Deaf person to decide. Instead, hearing people force speech & language classes on the Deaf, they force hearing aids on the Deaf.
More about audism here: http://www.raa-deaf.org/sandbox1.html
The point of this is, Fernandes and Jordan both support and stand for all of these things. This is why the students are angry. (In addition for many other things) Such example is her action in May… Both Jordan and Fernandes were speaking to each other without using sign language in front of Deaf people. Not only is it rude, it is audistic and unacceptable.
5) If you viewed this video again: http://video.nbc4.com/player.html?dlid=38759
And stopped at :22, Fernandes said “Yes, I have been threatened to be shot, yes”.
This statement is misleading. She was threatened in May, not recently. Yet, Fernandes has not made this clear. There are other statements that she has made to the media that are misleading and manipulative.
6) The fact that Fernandes has publicly THREATHENED the board… Is not the action of a president. That was not professional. That in itself is enough to determine that she does not belong in office. Is that the kind of person you want to lead Gallaudet?
7) There has been an argument that Jane Fernandes was not given a chance. She has
Had plenty of chances as provost, and her record isn’t good. It’s so bad that there are hundreds of people outside Gallaudet, protesting. If she does not qualify to be provost, she definitely does not qualify for president.
They provided a long list of Fernandes’ failures. Now, in the real world, when you apply for a new position, they ask your old position for references. If they find that you did not do a good job in your previous job, you would not be hired. If you had managed to lie about it, and got away with it… And later, your employer finds out that you had lied about your track record, you would be fired immediately. I don’t see her being fired. Why is this? The Board of Trustees is within their rights to fire her based on her lies about her previous track record. Why isn’t it happening? Isn’t this enough already?
9) Students provided pictures of DPS officers spraying mace in students faces, and
Roughing up students using physical force when DPS took over the HMB. Yet,
Jordan and Fernandes lied to the media, saying that there were no such attacks.
Any decent president would not deny it… He/she would have said “We will investigate and get to the bottom of this and take punitive measures against the officers involved if this is true”. Yet, they did not. And has there been an investigation? I am talking about an internal investigation, not to hire someone from the outside. Even after pictures were posted, neither Jordan or Fernandes apologized for the attacks. And they dare to say that the protesters are violent? They dare to say that they are dissenters?
10) The board of Trustees are spilt on the decision, some have threatened to resign.
One of them even said that non-Fernandes supporters were pressured to vote for her. That in itself is enough for me already. Is this enough for you, pro-Fernandes supporters?
There are so many more reasons that I can state here, but at the risk of seeming to
Nitpick, I will stop here. Hopefully, you pro-Fernandes supporters will think about those things above. Take your time to think about it, and reflect on them well.
In addition to this, I would like to warn the protesters that I read somewhere on the Gallaudet website that Jordan will be President Emeritus when he retires. This means he will have some kind of influence over Gallaudet University even after retirement.
Jordan has proven himself over and over to be an audist and non-qualified to be president. He has done some terrible things the past few weeks, and during his tenure as president.
For this reason, I move to recommend the protesters to SERIOUSLY CONSIDER demanding Jordan to RESIGN NOW in addition to Fernandes. Or, at least to have him sign a contract saying that he will not accept a position of President Emeritus, and in exchange, he will be allowed to Retire in Peace- RIP.
Sincerely,
Erick Ketcham,
ASL Instructor
Gallaudet Alumni
Fluent ASL signer
Delta Sigma Phi alumni
Deaf Father of Deaf son
Deaf husband of Deaf wife
A member of a Deaf family
A PISSED OFF DEAF CITIZEN OF THE DEAF COMMUNITY.
DEAF PRIDE! SAY NO TO AUDISM! UNITY FOR GALLAUDET!
iking, yourt anger and hostility is a true light as to how the rest of you foolish protesters are acting.
Passive agressiveness is a form of violence although there have been some instances where outright violence has occurred. This is absolutely wrong!!!
You people need to get your facts straight. JKF is for all of us!! AAAALLLLLLLL of UUUUUUUSSSSSSSSS!
Keep on getting played by the FSSA.
The Students protesters are the puppets in the FSSA play and the students don’t even have a glue they are in the play!!!
iking, yourt anger and hostility is a true light as to how the rest of you foolish protesters are acting.
Passive agressiveness is a form of violence although there have been some instances where outright violence has occurred. This is absolutely wrong!!!
You people need to get your facts straight. JKF is for all of us!! AAAALLLLLLLL of UUUUUUUSSSSSSSSS!
Keep on getting played by the FSSA.
The Students protesters are the puppets in the FSSA play and the students don’t even have a glue they are in the play!!!
GOI JKF!!!
Anarchy? Terrorism? Um, not by the protesters themselves. I’m delighted at how well they’ve behaved despite provocations from all sides. However, I’ve come across some unsettling censorship on the Riverside FSSA blog. Why are we censoring each other? I tried to question in the comments section WHY the parents did not give IKJ a chance to engage them in dialogue when they met with him earlier this week. They had a right to meet with him and express their frustrations. And I am proud they did that. But I do not get why there was the need to sink to the childish level of giving “dagger” looks and walking out without letting him at least say “I hear you and I understand your concerns.” This is the impression readers may have received and more than it helps, it actually harms the FSSA’s cause to see people acting like this, especially in the hearing world. My original comment expressing this concern was deleted, and this is disheartening. Only those who say “Pats on the back” are allowed to comment there. What happened to open discourse and respect for valid concerns, even if you do not agree with what a poster says? Sighs…that’s really not a good sign, to oppress our own merely because of their words. Shame on Riverside! We are all in this together, so a little criticism of tactics is not going to hurt anyone. grr…..
It smelled when I read about it.
If it was true, there’d be proof mentioned. If it was verbally, the person would have been named (and arrested!). I’m thinking more likely it was written. If so, where is it? Why isn’t she waving the letter in front of the camera?
Furthermore, even granting that there *WAS* a death threat, it still doesn’t necessarily prove that it’s protest-related. There are stupid people out who act on their accord, and FSSA has made their position advocating nonviolence and refraining from vandalism.
It really stinks, I’m afraid to say.
Viking, please advise as to what proof you have that Jane is earning $800,000 a year.
The FSSA’s view was to never get personal either. Yet, they managed to get some moronic students to do their dirty work.
The FSSA has the ability to enter into mediation with the Administration but they don’t. They just let there energizer bunnies keep taking personal attacks on two people who have done more for the deaf community than all the FSSA combined.
For the record, Riverside FSSA has explained why my comments disappeared. I issue a public apology for accusing them of censorship when they did not intend to do so. Thank you.
Cyan – you say that anarchy and terrorism is not from the protesters themselves… maybe not ALL protesters, but it is from protesters. People perceive themselves as being peaceful (when many are not anyhow) and when another protester does something wrong people want to quickly differentiate them from the rest of the group. Anyone who occupied HMB during the lock-down, or anyone who set up a tent on campus, or attended a rally or published an article supporting the protest acted as a protester. Therefore, the activities leading to anarchy and terrorism on campus were done by PROTESTERS. Stop trying to blame others for things that some protesters have done. If you want to justify the actions, point out that not ALL protesters do those things or feel that way. (which is probably a lie anyhow).
FYI — Jane Fernandes threatened to shoot me!!!
Ha ha! Two can play that game, Janie dear ….
(Of course I’m lying, but so is she)
In response to Tom Willard asking for proof
here is article
http://www.deaftoday.com/news/archives/000560.html
That shows how much I. King Jordan earns few years ago. Today’s salary is higher now.
Anonymous,
True enough. Not all protesters are engaging in what could be considered reprehensible tactics. Some may be, and they should be reprimanded. But Dr. Fernandes did not make this distinction. She blanket-labeled the entire protest as terrorism/anarchy. I know some are along for the ride, while others are there for ideological reasons. True enough one bad apple can taint the whole bunch, but I choose to look at the demonstrators as individuals, not as a collective group. So it is easier to say, yeah this one’s being an anarchist, but these ones are being peaceful. That’s all
I cannot say what the interpreter voiced as the videoclip wasn’t captioned. However, I can tell you what Fernandes signed. She said “threatened to shoot me with a gun” And it was last May, not recently. Why hadn’t she made that clear to the reporters?
Whoever this person may be, this person is not affiliated with the FSSA.
jack b, you implied that all the protesters are students. That is inaccurate. The majority of the Gallaudet Community which constitutes of four entities, faculty, staff, students, and alumni, wants Fernandes to resign. They are not to be ignored, either.
Jean, you got it right! For a relatively newcomer, you immediately understood the situation. Reason? You kept an open mind and took pains to listen to others.