Chris Pratt issued a silent apology video to the hearing impaired because he said the words “listen up” and “turn up the volume” in an Instagram video that he has since deleted.
Some people, it seems, were offended by what they saw as a slight to those who can’t hear. He is now calling for Instagram to offer closed captioning on its videos.
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The apology was not enough for some who took issue with some apparent mistakes Pratt made in his sign language.
When Chris Pratt apologizes to his D/deaf/HoH followers and doesn’t use person first language and says “hearing impaired”
— jos (@itsjust_jos) May 4, 2017
I don’t know what it is but lately chris Pratt has been annoying me a ton but he made me a lil soft on his apology to the deaf community
— lil shit (@thegoldenpeen) May 8, 2017
Chris Pratt apologizes to the deaf community in ASL, but doesn’t even take enough time to learn to sign his name correctly. smh.
— Kelsey Donahue (@DonahueKelsey) May 6, 2017
A senior editor at UpWorthy found Pratt’s lesson one everyone should learn.
Chris Pratt made a silent Instagram video with a message we all need to consider. https://t.co/lvzgFsshIV
— Rebecca Eisenberg (@ryeisenberg) May 4, 2017
Still others thought there was no apology necessary.
Chris Pratt apologized for doing literally nothing! guess we can’t ask people to listen just in case they’re deaf. Silly ass Americans. Lol
— Layla S. (@TVTweets101) May 5, 2017
Chris Pratt did nothing wrong. He wasnt trying to mock deaf people but everyone gets triggered by everything nowadays. We dont deserve Chris https://t.co/9eJlFPdhpm
— javi☆͟ (@damnjavi) May 6, 2017
Since Instagram does not offer closed captioning on their videos, it is not known how those who were offended by the original post knew to be offended.
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Chris Pratt posted a heartfelt apology after one of his Instagram videos offended some of his hearing-impaired followers pic.twitter.com/vdQAXZcgD7
— NowThis (@nowthisnews) May 6, 2017