LORD OF BOOTY posted:

It's very, very close to guaranteed that it will if this movie gets any kind of pop-culture relevancy

Like, this keeps getting dismissed when I bring it up like "yeah, post-apocalypse movie is reactionary, whatever" and that kind of makes me think y'all don't really have context on this issue. For the purpose of an analogy, this is sort of like if they made a wendigo movie with a nearly-all-Native cast that tried to be as respectful as possible to Native culture for 90% of its runtime, and then ended it by having General Custer come in and shoot all the wendigos to heroic swelling music and all the Native protagonists go "THANK YOU GENERAL CUSTER, YOU'RE OUR HERO"

That's most of why I find this situation interesting/hilarious: because I'm pretty sure literally nobody who's not either in or deeply familiar with the deaf community is gonna catch this. It's very, very clearly a case where the movie's well-meaning and they just blundered like all hell, and it is absolutely not going to be taken as a well-meaning blunder because of just how touchy the deaf community is about this, it's going to be taken as a deliberate attempt to hurt deaf people.

e: Seriously, this movie's existence is like the setup for a Curb Your Enthusiasm episode or something.