Alarming amount of folks apparently don’t seem to know that translation is a political act because translators are people, and people have biases.
Unpopular opinion: I don’t find the usage of deafness that appealing to talk about hearing speakers struggling to learn to perceive the difference between X and Y. 🐦 🐦
Also who gets to learn a language, especially the languages of antiquity and tell a story has always been political because equal access to education isn’t available to us all.
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