A deer entered one of the shops in Colorado. The shop owner gave him some chocolate biscuits and chocolate. He came out of the store and returned after half an hour with all his family members ? pic.twitter.com/VpEx12SmH5
— Satar (@Satar_Gaza) December 20, 2017
I saw this first thing this morning and it still makes me smile.
I received two nice submissions for our good news posts. First up a personal video from a lurker – which touched me because I also have family members who have cochlear implants.
And our own TheMightyTrowel shared this nice piece she wrote:
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And finally, a little Bixby. He’s still sad puppy, but we are all spoiling the dickens out of him, so I do get bursts of his old self. I think I mentioned this in the comments earlier, but he and I were on a walk the other night, looking at Christmas lights. A woman came up with her Corgi puppy (talk about squeee worthy!) and wanted in the worst way to bring her over. I gave her the standard warning that Bixby might scare her puppy with his ‘enthusiasm’ and then she brought her over. The puppy was all wiggles and Bixby was sitting and his tail was going a mile a minute. Then he did the best thing, he flopped on the ground and made himself as flat as he could so little puppy could come nose to nose and sniff him all over. Love this dog. He’s ready to be a big brother again.
Send me more fun things!
Good news open thread.
Mike J
Glad this tweet refers to them as deer. First one I saw called them gazelles.
PaulWartenberg
is chocolate safe for deer?
Mike in DC
Answer seems to be no.
Gravenstone
That deer story gave me a much needed laugh. Thank you.
Major Major Major Major
Whatever happened to the ducks?
germy
terse standoff between dog and swan
debbie
When does your new addition arrive?
FYI about that cat hoarder in Gahanna, OH: There have already been a couple transports, and charges against the hoarder are expected soon.
debbie
@Gravenstone:
I love that he returned with friends!
germy
I found this amusing:
TaMara (HFG)
@Major Major Major Major: From my FB this snowy a.m.:
Everyone: Wow, will the ducks be ok in the cold and snow?
Me: They come with their own down coats, they’ll be fine.
Snow storm, frigid temperatures.
Me: Oh, man are the ducks warm enough, should I put them in the garage, what if I made them a little nest near the house?
Meanwhile they are sitting in their little mini-pools. I think they’re fine. Still I have to refrain from making them hot soup*. ??
*that’s make THEM hot soup, not make them INTO hot soup you ghouls.
geg6
I just love that sweet boy, Bixby. He’s going be so happy when he finally meets Scout. You better take dozens of pics and/or videos so I can squee over the whole thing. It will do so much for my disposition.
Mike in DC
@Mike in DC:
Er, i mean yes.
debbie
@germy:
The video following the dog vs. swan is of a couple swans bullying geese. I’m not a fan of swan anymore.
HumboldtBlue
I posted this at the tail end of the last open thread.
Hardy the older black lab fell through the river ice and was there an hour before the RSPCA pulled him to safety.
Here’s a gif that adds a bit of humor and a closeup of the rescue process
satby
This gives me a chance to highlight a friend of the family who is a member of the deaf music community D-Pan, Mark Levin. They tour the country, demonstrating to kids in schools that you can achieve your dreams, even if your dream seems impossible.
germy
@debbie: I was attacked once by a swan. Well, maybe not attacked, but he walked toward me very quickly. I averted my eyes and backed away. He wasn’t looking to make friends.
germy
debbie
@germy:
I had a couple Canada geese nest a couple feet from my apartment door. That was a miserable couple of weeks. I hate those bastards.
Re — that Moon Pie vs. Kaela tweet: Good on Moon Pie!
Major Major Major Major
@TaMara (HFG): maybe you can spoil us with pictures some time :)
satby
@TaMara (HFG): don’t feel bad, I just had a heated kitty house delivered from Amazon to put into my shed for the feral cats. I’m trying to make a safe sheltered place for them
Then hopefully some humane trap, spay/neuter, release.
TaMara (HFG)
@Major Major Major Major: I keep trying, but they hate having their pix taken. Mostly what I get are tail feathers as they rush away. But I will tell you, for minimum effort, I get maximum joy and laughs from them – and eggs, let’s not forget eggs. They are awesome.
MikeEss
I watched the hearing challenged video…first reaction is pride that we can help kids who’ve got an extra challenge to face when growing up. And then I remember Republiscum like Paul Ryan and Turtle McConnell and T***p and realize those douchebags would rather take the million-bucks per each deaf child it takes to regain something they were denied at birth and leave them deaf and non-functional in a sick dog-eat-dog society, where we care more about the failson offspring of a wealthy Koch brother and his ridiculous “fashion” designs than whether a girl who was born deaf can get through college and become a productive and fulfilled member of society…and it makes me want to vomit. How do we cope in the face of such implacable evil, represented by people who have the temerity to call themselves members of “the Party of Lincoln”…?
eclare
Looking forward to Scout’s arrival!
Maeve
When I lived in Oklahoma it got down to 5 F one winter. The pond I lived next to mostly froze except in the middle where a group of ducks swam in circles.
Not only do ducks have down coats they have heat exchangers in their legs where veins and arteries are intertwined so that blood going down cools off then rewarms coming back up. This allows their feet to be significantly colder than their body core and they can swim around in frigid water (bearing in mind that liquid water can be no lower than 32 F so it was warmer than the air. Admittedly the heat exchange rate for water is much higher than air. However Newton’s Law of Cooling says the rate of heat exchange is proportional to the temperature difference, so the legs being cooler helps decrease thermal energy loss.)
Also geese are mean but swans are even meaner
Ian G.
I got a nice big bonus at work that I wasn’t expecting. It was basically a vote of confidence in me by my boss.
And my office is closed tomorrow, so I’ll probably head to Jones Beach for some winter birdwatching (grand prize is a Snowy Owl). It won’t be too cold out for that.
But until then, I will be watching the NY Islanders, which is probably not a good idea because they suck and will probably wreck my good vibes, but I’m a sucker.
satby
@MikeEss: deaf isn’t non-functional. Watch the D-Pan artists talk about what they do for an example. And to be clear, none of them have cochlear implants, though some wear hearing aids.
geg6
My good news is the good people can do in the face of terrible tragedy. Many of you know that my friend and co-worker was murdered on campus a week ago by her ex-husband who also killed himself, leaving their two kids orphaned. Her funeral and wake were held earlier this week. The campus and the University did their best to honor her and her 26 years of service. The big brass, the President, Provost and VP of Commonwelath campuses came to the funeral and are spearheading a fund raising effort for the kids (9 and 11 yo) along with the campus brass, advisory boards, faculty, staff and students and former students. Lesli’s (my friend) dad and fiancé told me that they were dumbstruck by the outpouring of love and support they were getting from all of us and that it was a great comfort to them to have that. It’s been good to see all that caring surround them and that they actually feel how much we all considered her a part of our “family.” It’s a cliche to say that but it has really felt that way since the initial paralysis of shock wore off. We all closed ranks around her family and her fiancé, also a co-worker in our maintenance department. A silver lining in a terrible dark cloud.
debbie
@Ian G.:
Congratulations. Did they try and tell you the bonus was due to Trump’s tax cuts?
DaveInOz
Aaah, a piece about Pauline Hanson, Australia’s gift the the world. Her famous catchphrase is/was ‘Please explain’ as for any question she was asked there was a good chance she didn’t understand the question and had no answer.
Wishing everyone on the BJ community a very Merry Christmas from Melbourne. Looking at a warm 22 degree C (72 degree F) Christmas Day and warming up for the Boxing Day Test between Australia and the old enemy, England. The test is scheduled to last 5 days and Australia have already won back the smallest trophy in world sport, the Ashes Urn having won the first three test matches. Can’t beat putting your feet up on Boxing Day with a cold beer watching the cricket!
debbie
@geg6:
Nice! People are good at heart.
satby
@geg6: Glad to hear that. Those kids and family will need a lot of support through the years.
Schlemazel
My brothers college roomate had him over for dinner one night. There was an odd knocking on the door. Turns out that there was a neighborhood squirrel that has lost its left forepaw. The family had noticed it limping & fed it peanuts. This turned into it knocking on the door for food.
That summer he was over there for a cookout & the 3-legged guy came hopping across the lawn. They gave it a couple of nuts & it hopped off. A minute ater here came a 3-legged squirrel across the lawn, there was another one right behind it. Turns out the squirrels had figured out if they tucked their leg up & hopped over these nce humans would feed them! They had been feeding the whole dang neighborhood.
Glidwrith
Had a great mini meet up with Le Comte the Count de Cristo here in Louisville KY. Two hours of companionable Juicer company.
germy
Ian G.
@debbie:
Heh, no. I work for a nonprofit health insurance company. We’re more fatigued from wondering how the GOP can fuck with our market.
Another Scott
@Glidwrith: Excellent. Glad you two were able to make it happen.
Cheers,
Scott.
Maeve
@MikeEss:
There’s a whole college Gallaudet University http://www.gallaudet.edu/. Plus with Americans with Disabilities Act a deaf person gets support through all schooling.
In fact I thought it was kind of sad that the person in the video didn’t learn ASL in addition to the cochlear implant. At my local college ASL counts for a language requirement and hearing people take the classes too. Being bilingual is known to increase your cognitive skills. And you’ll never know when it might come in handy,
debbie
@Ian G.:
They sure can. Stay strong!
germy
@Schlemazel: Don’t tell that anecdote to the republicans, or they’ll dismantle SSDI
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@Glidwrith:
Loved meeting you guys! Enjoy the rest of the time with your family!
TenguPhule
@debbie:
They are evil, evil birds.
Yarrow
@PaulWartenberg: According to The Dodo the shop owner didn’t feed the deer chocolate but a peanut bar.
If you click through there are more photos including a funny one of the deer checking out the sunglasses selection.
satby
@Glidwrith: yay! Did you get pictures?
evodevo
@Maeve: Yes … this. Geese can be aggressive, but swans are in a whole ‘nother category. A full grown swan is a formidable opponent …
Brachiator
@geg6:
Thanks for the follow up. I strongly relate to this because of a similar tragedy involving the family of my former supervisor.
Good to hear that there has been a lot of comfort and support. I hope that you are also finding support, if it would be helpful.
chris
@Maeve:
Swans are bigger than geese too. Word to the wise, do not look up when the swans fly overhead.
Glidwrith
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: Yeek! I knew I didn’t get your nym right. It was great meeting you as well. We are a family of geeks, we have all kinds of fun with each other. The invitation stands if you make it out to San Diego.
Major Major Major Major
@germy: nonsense, Matt Damon has done things worth watching.
Mnemosyne
Someone in one of the Star Wars threads pointed me to the Emo Kylo Ren Twitter account. It’s genius, though it may have mild spoilers if you haven’t seen the film yet.
Mnemosyne
@debbie:
When I watch swans in action like that, I wonder why it took us so long to figure out that they were dinosaurs all along.
satby
@Brachiator: These incidents are all too common. I had a manager at my former IT job whose daughter was murdered in similar circumstances by her boyfriend, leaving their toddler and year old baby alone in the house. He killed himself as the cops approached his car. My former boss is raising her grandchildren.
Glidwrith
@satby: It didn’t occur to either one of us to take pictures. Maybe next time.
raven
This is a video of deer running on the beach where I fish.
geg6
@Brachiator:
Actually, going through this with all my co-workers and students has been good for me, too. We are all heartbroken and still a bit shocked but by helping each other and the family and mourning together, it’s been good for my tired old soul. Of the people who were there that day, the ones I worry about are the two campus police officers who were on duty that day. There was nothing they could have done since Lesli did not alert them that he was coming to campus (he had set up the pretext that he was going to drop off Christmas presents for the kids) as she had several times over the years. So they weren’t right there when he pulled his guns. They were close but not close enough to stop it. They keep saying they wished they could have done more, so I know they are blaming themselves somewhat. But they shouldn’t and all we can do is support them, too.
raven
@geg6: Survivor guilt is a bitch.
germy
Mnemosyne
@germy:
I gotta agree with this responder after seeing several more of the shirts:
satby
My good news for the day is all the packages people ordered for Christmas show as delivered. Which is a huge relief because the tracking on a few of them was lacking until today, and one seemed to be touring most of California before arriving late, battered but intact, at its destination.
I wish I could teleport things. But since I can’t, kudos to the USPS.
Mnemosyne
@satby:
You might not know it from the news, but we’re still battling quite a few wildfires across our state (none close me to right now). I’m sure that the routes to get packages from place to place while avoiding the central part of the state were quite tricky.
raven
@satby: I still have’t got one set of Rose Bowl Parade tix that were mailed the 12th of December. The one that was 2 day overnight that took 8 days was a mess too.
dmsilev
@TenguPhule: Swans are basically geese with better PR agents.
Brachiator
An obscure American musical seems to be doing well in its London opening. Anybody heard of this “Hamilton” thing? From one review.
Amir Khalid
@DaveInOz:
I haven’t been to Oz in twenty years. Is Pauline Hanson still a person of consequence in Aussie politics?
Mnemosyne
@raven:
Did the Pasadena residents let you know that you may be able to walk past the floats as they line up on Orange Grove given where you parked and where your parade-viewing seats are? I’m not sure what time they close off Orange Grove (the big turn you see the floats make on TV is from Orange Grove onto Colorado).
raven
@Mnemosyne: We’ve changed everything. We’re going to park on the golf course, walk (uphill) to our parade seats at Colorado and Pasadena (at the freeway overpass) and take the shuttle from Parsons back to the game. I wouldn’t be surprised if we make a trial run up there Saturday to scope it and maybe see the floats then too.
There are some Pasadena folks on trip advisor that think we’ve chosen the best options and Ruckus and Bill have been great as well.
Miss Bianca
Finally getting some real snow. Making mac and cheese with bacon from the best butcher shop in the region. Trying the hopped mead for the first time since bottling last month – it’s pretty darn good! Fire going in the woodstove. As Matt Groening once put it, “momentary illusion that all is well with the universe.” : )
Happy Solstice Night all!
Mnemosyne
@raven:
Make sure to check in with Roger Moore, too — he lives close to where the floats park on Orange Grove before the parade and may know a good walking route. If you don’t have time to wander past them that morning pre-dawn, they park them in a public park for about three days after the parade and it costs something like $10 or $15 to see them. It’s a madhouse, but they have a good shuttle system and you can get pretty close to them.
satby
@raven: I wondered if you had gotten them. Shipping is insane this year between all the online ordering and regular holiday packages to family. They do an amazing job considering, though it makes for some worry while you wait. Hope the other ones come soon.
satby
@Miss Bianca: that sounds so nice I will return your toast with a nice glass of sangria.
Yarrow
I think this counts as good news.
Mnemosyne
@Yarrow:
It will make me so happy if he’s stepping down because of sexual harassment complaints.
lamh36
This is funny. Sooo true about Hallmark movies!
SNL shoulda kept it on the big show.
Cut for Time: Hallmark Channel Christmas Promo (James Franco) – SNL https://youtu.be/MSzytvDsPfo via @YouTube
Corner Stone
@satby: Shipping has been absolutely abysmal this year, starting before Thanksgiving.
Yarrow
@satby: A friend of mine sends me a Christmas present every year. So far nothing has arrived. I don’t want to get in touch and say, “Hey, did you send me a present?” because that seems greedy. But on the other hand if one was sent and went astray, it would be good to know that. Not quite sure what to do.
So far all the things I’ve ordered have arrived on schedule. I feel lucky about that.
trollhattan
The deer story is hilarious but these people have clearly never read “If You Give a Moose a Muffin” to their kid eight-hundred times.
dmsilev
@Mnemosyne: There are a few reasonable walking routes from the Rose Bowl area up to Colorado. Simplest probably is to walk up Holly St. (there’s a walkable ramp that goes up from Arroyo Boulevard to Holly at the southern end of the Rose Bowl park), turn onto Orange Grove, and then to Colorado, but of course that depends on that small chunk of Orange being still open. If it’s closed off, Arroyo Terrace to Orange to Walnut would be an alternative.
Mike J
@Major Major Major Major: We regret to inform you that milkshake duck is a racist.
Mnemosyne
@dmsilev:
I’m guessing it will depend on the amount of walking that raven and his bride feel up to doing at that hour of the morning, but it might be nice for them to be able to detour past the floats along Orange Grove on their way to their parade seats. I just don’t know what time they put that street on lockdown and start blocking random people from wandering around the floats.
M31
swans are fcking murderers
M31
My dog and I surprised a goose in some bushes once (it had babies in there) and it was really scary — hissing and spreading its wings and charging. We wisely just backed up and took off. So didn’t get murdered.
Roger Moore
@raven:
The floats won’t be there Saturday. They start showing up the night before the parade, and they aren’t all there until some time after midnight. They do have lights so people can see the floats as they’re lining up. I think it’s the best time to view them. You can get much closer than you can during the parade, and the flowers haven’t had as much time to wilt as they have in the viewing area after the parade. Also, depending on where you’re staying, the Gold Line may make a practical alternative means of transportation.
raven
@Mnemosyne: We walk a couple of miles every morning so I think we’ll be ok. Even though we get out there Friday our internal clocks will make it 7 or 8 am so we’re cool on that too. I payed out the nose for the parade seats and the bleachers on the bridge are only 11 rows high with no one in front of them so I think we’ll be just fine as far as float viewing. Google maps takes us up Rosemont to Orange Grove and then across on Walnut. I’m assuming some street are closed and someone will tell us where to go.
raven
@Roger Moore: We’ll be with my sis in Hawthorne. We plan to leave at 4am, take the 110 to the the 5, then to 2 and up to the 210 and down to one of those exits.
Mike J
@M31:
My mother told me of one of the times her family ate goose when she was a child. It was right after one they kept bit her when she was at an age the goose was bigger than her.
Roger Moore
@Mnemosyne:
Actually, I live close to the other end of the parade route, where they go on display after the parade. I like to walk the whole parade route the night before and watch the floats line up.
raven
@Roger Moore: Do they really throw marshmallows and tortillas at cars on Colorado while the street is still open but the campers are setting up? My first set of parade tix were at 2121 Colorado. Then I bought a pair at 1580. After all that I realized there was no way I could get to those spots and the game so I overpaid for Colorado and Pasadena on the overpass.
Miss Bianca
btw, mighty trowel, if you are lurking, good article.
Roger Moore
@raven:
Yes, they do, and some assholes put shaving cream on the tortillas before they throw them. They also shoot silly string. There’s a tendency for the people doing that to focus on the cars that are throwing stuff back, but if you plan on cruising Colorado it might be better to stick to the left lane.
raven
@Roger Moore: Oh no, we plan to be in the rack at 10 pm.
frosty
@Miss Bianca: Happy Solstice to you (and everyone) too. Fire going in the fireplace, sipping an Old Fashioned. Sundown today 4:46. Tomorrow 4:47. Yay!!!
J R in WV
@geg6:
That sounds like the best possible outcome after such a tragedy. I’m glad you work with such a great community, as all schools are like that. Best of luck to fiance, kids, grandparents, etc. And hang in there yourself!!
gbbalto
Probably dead thread, but not all geese are assholes:
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/mother-goose-baby-rescue-cincinnati_us_5732a7a4e4b096e9f0932ee0
J R in WV
@J R in WV:
Oops: “as not all schools are like that.”
J R in WV
@debbie:
About Swans:
Many years ago Mom and Dad took a driving vacation up the east coast. In Delaware they visited one of the duPont estates, converted into a public park and museum, driving in Dad’s roadster. They paused driving up the winding road through the estate to look at a pond, with serene looking white swans cruising back and forth in the beautiful water garden.
Then the boss swan got out of the water, and came for Dad, who just got the window to wind up barely in time – Swan banged into the window and left it covered with swan spittle. Damned good thing the top was up on the car. He intended to hurt the guy in the car, poking his nose into Swan business! They drove on, a little shattered by the discovery that swans are sons of bitches.
I have some nice close up pics of swans swimming in a pond at Yorktown Va National Park, which I took from inside the car. Having learned from my father’s experience.
DaveInOz
@Amir Khalid: She did disappear for a while but is now back in the Senate preaching her usual bile. Her party is a comedy of errors. They won three seats in the last election and two of the members promptly defected.
Brachiator
@raven:
Do your tickets include parking, or have you otherwise provided for that?
I think that for many people, the best solution is to take the Gold Line (probably to Del Mar or Memorial Park station) or a shuttle; and then a shuttle to the game if you are attending. Walking isn’t the issue. Sometimes street closures and security arrangements create unexpected barriers requiring extra detours. You can encounter folks who can help tell you where to go, but most staff and other personnel closer to the parade route are focused on keeping the area clear.
Just allow yourself a little exta time in case you hit some unexpected snags.
Mrs. D. Ranged in AZ
BTW as a follow up, I ordered a titanium infused amethyst from Woodstock Reveries and it arrived just in time for Christmas. It is stunning! My daughter will be thrilled.
Comrade Colette Collaboratrice
@Maeve:
When I was on the swim team at Bryn Mawr, approximately 23 sols ago, we swam in a big intercollegiate meet against 5 other schools at WVU in Morgantown. The Gallaudet team was participating – in case you’re wondering, the start blocks were equipped with flashing lights as well as automated “gun” sounds to signal the start of each race. All of the other teams completely ignored the Gallaudet swimmers, apparently on the theory that if they couldn’t hear us, we were invisible to them. The Mawrtyrs decided that was bullshit, based on the observation that their swimmers not only swam like us but talked to us, responded when we spoke to them, and generally demonstrated (as if they had to!) that they were in fact humans indistinguishable from the other humans. It really was a pretty fucking creepy and offensive demonstration of normative privilege. So we cheered for them, and they cheered for us, and it was all pretty normal and sports(wo)manlike except for those other weirdos on the other 4 teams. Who does that, anyway?
TheMightyTrowel
Sorry I’m late to the thread but thanks for posting TaMara!
Litany
I’d recommend anyone uncritically buying the cochlear implant industry’s line on this to do research into the outcomes of profoundly deaf children deprived of sign language at a young age. You do not hear normally through an implant; the “hearing” you gain is qualitatively different from what a hearing person has access to. On top of this, medical professionals will usually wait several years to install an implant, both because it’s difficult to have the operation as an infant and because installing a cochlear implant will often destroy what little hearing may exist. Doctors often want to insure that the child’s hearing won’t improve and rule out other possible causes before taking such a drastic step.
Because of this, Deaf or HoH children often start at a deficit when it comes to acquiring language and are not even given the same tools as their hearing peers once they finally begin. Deaf children can miss critical milestones in their language acquisition because they’re denied a language which fits their needs during early childhood and infancy, and these deficiencies WILL have lifelong implications. It’s still believed by many audiologists and speech pathologists that learning sign will impair a child’s acquisition of English. Of course, this is all nonsense: your ability to acquire language is strengthened when you use it acquire language, and delaying a child’s ability to speak and think about the world around them just so they can do so using the socially acceptable method of choice is bullshit. Modern studies on the subject show that learning sign correlates positively with English competence later in life, and even anecdotal evidence inside the Deaf world bears this out (for instance, many of the best Deaf English speakers I’ve met were children of Deaf adults raised with plenty of sign in the home). Deaf people have known all this for a long time, but ironically (or maybe not) it’s the medical community that refuses to listen. We’ve now entered this bizarro world where it’s trendy to teach hearing babies sign, but Deaf children are denied their cultural birthright.
To be sure, this technology is an overwhelming good and should be celebrated. But implants are not even nearly good enough to replace sign language, and more needs to be done to make quality ASL education for hearing families AND deaf children a fundamental right. At the root of all of this is the misplaced belief that Deafness is a problem to be fixed rather than a difference to be navigated or even celebrated, and until that changes these sorts of practices will continue.
Mnemosyne
@Litany:
I am by no means an expert, but I’ve heard so many stories of small (hearing) children learning to speak multiple languages with ease that it seems counterintuitive for audiologists to insist that sign language is somehow a completely different kind of language that will impede learning English later on. If a hearing child can learn Spanish and English at the same time, why couldn’t a deaf child learn ASL and English at the same time?
Litany
@Mnemosyne: They can. Learning English while HoH or Deaf can be very hard, however, which is where I assume this belief comes from. Reading lips can only give you so much information because of the many words which appear identical on the mouth, meaning that the practice is highly context-based. And learning how to produce sounds without hearing them by using the feedback of another person is an arduous and frustrating experience, which hearing aids and the like make only slightly easier.
When audiologists look at ASL and see how well suited it is to the needs of the Deaf community, they then assume that deaf children will prefer ASL to English if they are offered the choice. Somehow this is a bad thing? I have to confess I don’t understand the logic, but that’s where we are at the moment.
Something you have to understand is that historically sign language was seen as undesirable, primitive, and “not a real language.” It’s only recently that mainstream linguists and society have recognized ASL’s intrinsic worth and validity as a means of communicating ideas. The history of the Deaf world is a history of a marginalized group of people fighting established authorities like hell in order to win access to language, which makes this topic of cochlear implants a very political subject in Deaf circles these days. In the same way you might think about sexism or racism most Deaf people believe in a prejudice called Audism, which is the belief that being hearing makes you better (with the unspoken implication that being Deaf makes you worse). Audism is at the heart of the anti-sign language movement: on a societal level hearing people believe that being Deaf is a problem, and thus those who are Deaf must be made to conform to the standards of the hearing world whenever possible. ASL upsets that belief because it’s a language made for Deaf people by Deaf people, and it’s an unique piece of culture that many in the Deaf world take great pride in. Rather than conforming to someone else’s definition of “normal,” ASL allows the Deaf to live their own authentic lives.
You can read a very good article on the topic here: https://mic.com/articles/185597/deaf-children-language-deprivation-alexander-graham-bell#.phGNLTZHB