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If you took your child to see Santa, but the Santa that day was deaf would you let your child see him or would you leave & come back another day?

I'll explain better here since I have limited space to write the whole question with explanation: So say you take your child (if you don't have a child just pretend) to the mall to see the Santa there. You get to the mall and find out on that day the designated Santa is deaf and uses sign language. All children are still welcomed and there are interpreters there to help with hearing children to communicate. Would you be okay with that and still let your child participate or would you tell your child they can't see Santa and leave to just come back on a different day when the designated Santa isn't deaf?
I feel like for most people this is a dumb question, but there's this event that I volunteer for that's at a huge mall. Two days out of the season there is a deaf Santa and it's heavily advertised so parents know. All the other days it's a "normal" Santa. You would think people wouldn't have an issue with it, but there are so many complaints from parents and a lot of them are opposed to their child being exposed to deaf people/ a deaf Santa... Personally I don't understand why anyone would have a problem with it, but I'm hard of hearing so maybe I'm biased? So I was just wondering how people on here feel about it and if they would feel opposed by it what their reasoning for it is just so I can understand better.
SW-User
learning sign would be nice
teach them to ask whatever in sign language
NaturallyPeculiar · 26-30, F
@SW-User That's something we do as well. We teach them a bit of sign language and there's other activities like games and crafts. Most volunteers can both sign and speak so it's not a problem, but apparently a lot of parents who don't know anything about the deaf community/dead culture still oppose it and complain. One year this lady got mad and threatened to never come back to the mall...
I'd have no problem with it but it's supposed to be the real Santa at the mall so maybe parents don't want to explain to their kids why Santa is deaf on that day when kids know he isn't
NaturallyPeculiar · 26-30, F
@JaggedLittlePill That's true. There isn't a real Santa so technically Santa can be really anyone with a beard. My parents took me to see a blank Santa when I was little and I didn't even question it or care.
@JaggedLittlePill can you not read
@NaturallyPeculiar that's sad but who are we to parent other people's kids
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NaturallyPeculiar · 26-30, F
@monimathu I mean if people are that bothered by it then yeah I guess that's the solution... I more so just mean people showing up to the mall with their child and finding out that the Santa there is deaf and whether they would be okay with it or not.
JaggedLittlePill · 46-50, F
As far as people having an issue..they can't see past their noses and don't want the task of explaining things to their children. They might fear that this will diminish the child's view of Santa..but they can suck a fat one really.
NaturallyPeculiar · 26-30, F
@JaggedLittlePill I mean Santa is magic so if the child questions couldn't the parent be creative to explain? As a child I knew every Santa at the mall wasn't the same exact Santa but I didn't care. Most children really don't care what color Santa is or if he can hear or not and if they do care it's usually because the parents are making an issue of it.
JaggedLittlePill · 46-50, F
I would take my child anyhow. They should be exposed to the differences in people and I think seeing a Santa Claus with a disability would be fucking fantastic.

 
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