About that deaf signer at the press briefing

[DeusxMac]

deckeda wrote:
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Agreed that once she has the job she just interprets what is being said, whatever that is. I would question whether it is morally just to take a job that requires interpreting outright lies and promoting insurrection.

That said, I don't know how much leeway she has in accepting or rejecting specific jobs.

Like Axis Sally, Tokyo Rose, Hanoi Hannah? :devil:
If no one knew what those 3 said, then sure. But it would have been very tough to hold a radio job while being mute. Ooh, I know! Heather could flash double-secret gang-like signs that *only* conservatives would pick up on! And then QAnon would fall in love with Biden.
Uh, the (somewhat satirical) connection was that of a willingness to translate a given message into another language, regardless of its truth.

[Speedy]

The linked article explains how ASL is an interpretation and can be easily nuanced and subtly manipulated by the interpreter. She needs to go.

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cbelt3 wrote:
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The information in the Time article also makes it clear that her willingness to propagate widely known to be false information and information known to be deleterious to public health and safety, make her an inappropriate choice to act as a reliable conveyer of information from the administration to the public.

FFS. She is an interpreter. Her job is to interpret whatever nonsense is being spouted without interference. The fact that she stood there and did her job despite the dumpster fire of nonsense spewing from Trump's mouth is an enormous credit to her professionalism.
My point was more towards public confidence. For some, being wiling to disseminate, even acting only as a vehicle of conveyance, known gross falsehoods and misinformation even on vital public health issues raises rather obvious questions as to her commitment to veracity in communications.

As far as I recall reading, she hasn’t interpreted for Trump, though it would hardly be surprising if she had.