As with most identity politics, the loudest voices speak for few besides themselves. Former newspaper editor Lew Golan, who is deaf, writing in the Post, called the protesters "a very small and very self - marginalized segment of deaf people in America."

Unfortunately, it's also true that these "segments" often wield an influence that is disproportionate to their numbers. This, you see, is the ultimate triumph of multiculturalism, where what matters most is not doing the right thing, but appealing to a particular grievance group — and, as in this case, it does damage to the very people in the group.