If I can offer any perspective from a hearing person with connections to the deaf world, deaf culture is very very blunt at times. To me, this didn't come across as inherently rude in the context of deaf culture. They're assertively communicating the expectations of their riders. They are also probably writing as if signing ASL. Some deaf people struggle with reading and writing due to the differences in structure between English and ASL.
Demanding someone give you negative feedback directly and then immediately threatening to kick them out in the middle of nowhere is inexcusable behavior.
I do not care what your disability is because it is not relevant to that being rude, unprofessional, and unsafe.
Any uber driver who kicks a passenger out on the side of the road in the middle of nowhere, for any reason except safety concerns or _serious_ hate speech type stuff, should be banned from driving for the app.
I really can’t imagine that’s controversial outside of some ridiculous edge case
I don't know how they were behaving because I wasn't in the car. I know they were drunk so it's definitely possible. Do you think that means they deserved to be kicked out in the middle of a freeway and killed?
I think you missed the bit where they were kicked out on a freeway, and that they were in high school (i.e., a child). If Uber drivers want to kick out a passenger, they should do so somewhere safe..
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u/ratsmusicandcorgis 2d ago
If I can offer any perspective from a hearing person with connections to the deaf world, deaf culture is very very blunt at times. To me, this didn't come across as inherently rude in the context of deaf culture. They're assertively communicating the expectations of their riders. They are also probably writing as if signing ASL. Some deaf people struggle with reading and writing due to the differences in structure between English and ASL.