This is Suicide Prevention Week, and tomorrow is Suicide Prevention Day. Who knew? Have you seen any publicity about this important work? I sure haven’t.
That begs a question: Why has suicide prevention become almost invisible? Part of the blame goes to the corrosive impact of the assisted suicide movement. But the suicide prevention community itself must shoulder part of the blame because it has remained generally silent about the issue. I provide details over at Secondhand Smoke.
September 9th, 2011 | 2:24 pm
Why has suicide prevention become almost invisible? Part of the blame goes to the corrosive impact of the assisted suicide movement.
This seems to presume that at some mythical before time we were all well aware of suicide prevention day and week. I’m sorry but while I do recall once seeing a poster for what I believe to be suicide prevention day, I don’t recall any time when there was a big anti-suicide movement with suicide prevention day/week getting the attention that, say, breast cancer or AIDS has received.
September 10th, 2011 | 5:50 pm
From my post on suicide issues, especially those related to spreading the false myth of a large number of teenage homosexual suicides:
Did you know 83% of the statistics you hear in the media are false?
http://socimages.blogsome.com/2010/10/09/did-you-know-83-of-the-statistics-you-hear-in-the-media-are-false/
Excerpt:
“One-third of gay teens commit suicide”
The claim that a third of gay teens kill themselves has circulated widely over the past few weeks in the wake of the suicide of Rutgers student Tyler Clementi.
Joel Best, professor and chair of sociology and criminal justice at the University of Delaware, debunked the statistics behind the gay teen suicide rate in his 2001 book Damned Lies and Statistics (pp. 89-93). “Gay activists invoked this statistic to portray the hardships gay and lesbian youth confront; it suggests that stigma and social isolation are severe enough to drive many adolescents to kill themselves.”
Yet, Best explains, the number was derived from “a chain of bad statistics” using discredited and outdated findings (such as Kinsey’s inflated estimates of incidence of homosexuality from the 1940s), dubious assumptions, math errors, and arbitrarily selecting the highest numbers in estimates of suicide incidence. “The final figure depends completely on the assumptions used to make the calculations,” Best notes. “Once offered, a statistic such as this one tends to be repeated, to circulate widely, without confronting questions about its validity.”
And why?
Because reality must not interfere with the gilded narrative spun by homosexual activists. Drumming and fomenting intense emotions about sexuality persecution and suffering has the most effect when manipulating the hearts and minds of their mostly privileged audience.
There are approximately 35,000 suicides per year in the US.
35,000 suicide cases evidently implies there are tens of thousands, and more likely, hundreds of thousands of many negligent and irresponsible people, enmeshed in detrimental and deadly factors, attitudes, and actions. Yet only a handful of such cases receive even more than a mention in the local media, and only a couple get to media celebrity status, with the thrown-in political hullabaloo.
Moreover, no activism group lies about statistics for suicides for a particular group, except for homosexual activists. And now, with these recent couple of cases, an opportunity is seized for producing the spin on an “epidemic of homosexual suicides,” an inappropriate term which the most yellow journalists certainly adhere to.
In the book, “You are being lied to: the disinformation guide to media distortion,” by Russell Kick, an article is dedicated to chronicling the web of horribly distorted statistics and numbers spun by homosexuality activists referring to the number of cases for teen suicides.
Claiming a vast scale for the gay suicide problem was closely related to other themes emphasized by gay activists …, above all the transformation of homosexuality from a deviant or pathological state to a condition which attracted unmerited persecution.
It was all part of a process of constructing gays as victims of social injustice. In the US especially, modern movements claiming rights for a particular segment of the population have all been influenced to a greater or lesser degree by the rhetoric of the African-American civil rights movement and its emphasis on structural oppression and group victimization. … A claim to collective victim status implied that the groups was “unjustly harmed or damaged by forces beyond their control,” and that victimization occurred chiefly or solely due to the essential characteristics of that group. On the analogy of civil rights legislation, it was thus the proper role and obligation of government to seek to prevent or compensate for this victimization.
Teen suicide … took a matter that had been previously viewed as one of personal misfortune or dysfunction, and presented it as the consequence of structural bias and victimization, and even of official conspiracy.
September 12th, 2011 | 3:48 pm
Teen suicide … took a matter that had been previously viewed as one of personal misfortune or dysfunction, and presented it as the consequence of structural bias and victimization, and even of official conspiracy.
Actually there is some evidence that structural bias might be related to suicide, but not for gay victims.
Autistic kids or “asperbergers” kids are frequently bullied because they have problems with social skills. The usual, normal human response is to separate them from the bullies – but the school system as it currently stands refuses to do this, refuses to protect them, and refuses to assist them in learning how to fit in with their environment.
You can tell a case where “structural bias” is operative because there’s usually some attempt on the part of the student to get out of going to school, some attempt by the parent to fix the problem, some attempt by the school to use force of some sort to keep the kid attending school and/or to punish the parent for not making the kid show up on time, and – this is kind of gross – there’s usually signs of extreme stress, where the kid is so stressed out by having to go to school that he starts wetting himself and/or losing control of his bowels in school, which is often used by the school as proof that there is something wrong with the kid that justifies the extreme cruelty shown toward him (as in, “how could you expect us to protect a kid like THAT?”)
September 13th, 2011 | 7:22 pm
Actually there is some evidence that structural bias might be related to suicide, but not for gay victims.
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Well, actually there is plenty of structural bias in school bullying cases for students of all kinds (negligence, irresponsibility, collusion, etc.). And this is certainly true for kids who are simply more vulnerable from an emotional perspective, without having any other major diagnosis.
The point was how much the “gay victim” stereotype is propped up and inflated by lies, while millions of real other victims are completely forgotten and relegated to suffering along with no help.
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