YES! Bye bye Kisha and Jen. Just what i wanted to see happen
If that was me and i had to go pee, i would have pee'd my pants and ran to the pit stop with a chance at a spot in the top 3 at stake, c'mon
Ah yes, the million dollar piss. They deserved to lose their spot in the final three for such a boneheaded move.
If you were part of a deaf world (like i am), you would think differently.
Perhaps you're right. I'm not trying to be offensive at all, and I promise you Luke's deafness has nothing to do with the fact that I don't care for this team. Go back and read my posts and you'll find nothing disparaging of his deafness.
But I agree, that I might give him more of a pass if I were part of the deaf community. Coming from a minority group myself, I know that's easy to do (Full disclosure: I'm black, and I have tended to always root for the black contestants on these types of shows, just because, it's nice to see "one of your own" do well. And yes, that includes Kisha and Jen. However, even in spite of that I'm willing to concede when such contestants have not played well or do not deserve to win. Again, as you'll note from my comment above I have no problem saying that Kisha and Jen didn't deserve to win).
To be honest, my dislike for Luke's attitude is, in a way, a kind of acknowledgement that his deafness does not make him any less of a person or a competitor. I'm basically saying that what I see is a contestant with a bad attitude. His deafness doesn't matter to me at all either negatively OR positively. In the sense of showing that deaf people can compete in this game the same as
a person who can hear, he has done the deaf community proud. He’s very impressive. On the other hand, his poor attitude to me does not and should not reflect on the deaf community. After all, I’m sure you’d agree that not all deaf people are automatically “nice people.” They are simply human, just like all of us.
As a black man, I know I’ve found portrayals in the media of the “Noble Negro” as a counterbalance to racist stereotypes to be actually rather vaguely insulting. I want to be recognized simply as a human being with good and bad traits, without the adjective black attached. I imagine you feel the same about being deaf.