Stop Surdophobia magnet

Surdophobia is the hostility, intolerance or fear against Deaf people, Deaf culture and the Deaf Community. That includes resistance towards the sign languages used. It can consist of a range of negative attitudes towards Deafhood, the idea of Deaf positive and Deaf rights. Definitions refer variably to antipathy, contempt, prejudice, aversion, and irrational fear. Surdophobia is observable in critical and hostile behaviour such as discrimination and violence on the basis of a perceived non-deaf behaviors. Surdophobia as a term was coined by Gardy van Gils, Dutch social worker.