USA Today:

Political correctness is transforming the way deaf people sign. No more twisting a pinky finger next to the eye to represent slanted eyes to sign "Japan" or using a limp wrist to sign the word homosexual, says Patricia Fedelum of the Deaf Hearing and Speech Center in Detroit. Politically correct signers now use both hands in the shape of the Japanese archipelago to sign "Japan" and sign the letter Q for "queer."

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