Could you define 'the left' for the sake of clarity? You could define 'the right' while you are about it.Vitruvius wrote: ↑Tue Sep 21, 2021 8:35 amCaught this this morning:Immanuel Can wrote: ↑Mon Sep 20, 2021 11:29 pmThe highest, I understand. Apparently, the only comparable group that had their rate of suicide was Jews under Hitler. But it doesn't go down after surgery either, apparently...still around 45 % report suicidal ideation or self-harm. So whatever is making them do it, it's not the lack of the procedure, nor is it the lack of public acceptance, since black males (who are purportedly discriminated against) have the lowest suicide rate, even below white males.
Children face 'agonising' waits for mental health care
By Nick Triggle
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-58565067
I don't know why there isn't a mental health counsellor in every school. Maybe like a Psychology post grad job; young adults might relate better to kids, and it gives the aspiring counsellor a job in their field, so they gain some experience. And the kids get immediate access to mental health counselling - without the enormous costs to the NHS. Win, win, win!
I agree. I could just write that after every part of your post. Instead I've been thinking about the far more complex environment children face today; than the one I was raised in. Political correctness was in its infancy when I was at school, and back then - they only went so far as 'don't discriminate on the basis of arbitrary characteristics.' And that was fine. Live and let live. Good rule of thumb. But now, it's gone way beyond that - because the left have inverted identity politics, and now actively propagandise on behalf of minority interests - in an attack on the so called white male patriarchy; they've made whiteness, maleness and straightness problematic - while celebrating diversity!Immanuel Can wrote: ↑Mon Sep 20, 2021 11:29 pmWhat's doing it is a mental illness...body dysmorphic disorder. These people are chronically unhappy, chronically unreconciled to their bodies, and chronically self-destructive. They are mentally ill, and they need our help. "Normalizing" their pain is not help.
Dr Evans states that gender dysphoria is often transitory - it goes away with a bit of time and therapy, but the lefties are already in there - making the disorder permanent with drugs and politically correct affirmation.Again, we are of one mind. DYK, there are around 1000 arrest related deaths in the US per year, from over 10 million arrests. 32% of those are black people. 42% white people. That's a failure rate of around 0.01% - in a country where people carry guns. That demonstrates incredible professionalism on the part of police - but in order to spike an election (IMO) the left made out like there's some kind of racist genocide being committed by the police. BLM is blatant leftist manipulation; forcing people to demonstrations of political correctness at election time.Immanuel Can wrote: ↑Mon Sep 20, 2021 11:29 pmAnd that's the cruelty that hides under all this "trans-rights" talk. The woke don't want to help sufferers of dysmorphic disorder, far less relieve them -- heavens, no -- they want to keep them and use them as an opportunity to virtue signal, and what happens to them be damned.Using other people is what Lefties do most.
The left is in trouble though; in the US and the UK. They've been abandoned by the white working class people they were set up to represent; and cannot counter, disagree with, or therefore control the marriage of an inverted identity politics with moral righteousness. They've created a ratchet effect; a holier than thou ideology - where the noose can only tighten for fear of being called racist, sexist, homophobic etc, twitter mobbed, de-platformed and threatened, no matter how mad an idea - like gender self identification, they can only agree.
Which side of the political spectrum does 'logic, reason and scientific evidence' fall into?
I've always voted 'left' BECAUSE it has historically been (until fairly recently) the logical, reasonable side. The 'other' side never made any logical sense to me. As it is, they still do a much better job than their 'conservative' opposition, and both sides are increasingly infected with PC nuttery.
To call rabid wokism 'the left' is as stupid as saying that because cats are mammals then all mammals must be cats.
It's fucking infuriating the way an insane fringe has come to define the entire left wing spectrum (led and fueled by American moronism).
Do you think that extreme far-right Nazi supremacist groups define the entire 'conservative' voting public?
Thanks in advance.