Okay 🕊️ The other vantage point is that the person whose deaf, 9 times out of 10, navigates society with more innate barriers; took more for them to get to that same interview in general.

Me, I’d bow out, knowing I could go 6 other places and get that same job.

I understand what you’re saying though and appreciate that you engaged in a way that was respectful while communicating your perspective.

" It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it."

-Upton Sinclair

She's an DEI "activist" that's probably been promoting Marxist identity politics her whole life. By now she's made a career out of it. Good luck getting anything but smarmy responses.

But for most jobs, it's not just about competency in the role. Agreed that there's a minimum threshold of competence required but after that aren't there other factors that weigh in, including diversity?

I was indifferent towards the topic of inclusivity, till I read about how being full-abled is temporary and we all are at certain points of time disabled due to age/injury & systems that are designed with inclusivity in mind (even a specific category of disability) are beneficial to many kinds of users, say text-to-speech applications.

I'm no DEI expert but allowing for people to participate in society fully as themselves seems like a good thing for the community at large.