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Re:Fighting the “loneliness epidemic” at work by dragonwriter on Wednesday November 28, 2018 @12:57PM (#18553819)
> Maybe something like this is why whites commit suicide so much more than blacks in America

Whites officially commit suicide more than blacks because blacks who are even slightly inclined to self-destruction find it all to easy to get into situations that produce death by means that won't officially be viewed as suicide.

> Blacks suffer in many ways but at least they're allowed to make a community just about themselves

Whites can, and do, make communities just about themselves. Now, it's true that the ones that aren't purely and nakedly about virulent racism usually do it about some more specific subset of Whiteness (like a particular national/ethnic identity like Italian or Irish, etc.), probably because Whiteness as such (in America, at least) is not a particularly strong shared experience and identity (some other racial identities, particularly Black identity, are, but largely as a consequence of extended subjugation by the broader society which deliberately destroyed other identities in the group and produced a new common shared experience.)

Re:Fighting the “loneliness epidemic” at work by Taylor_OD on Wednesday November 28, 2018 @02:05PM (#18554568)
>> Maybe something like this is why whites commit suicide so much more than blacks in America

> Whites officially commit suicide more than blacks because blacks who are even slightly inclined to self-destruction find it all to easy to get into situations that produce death by means that won't officially be viewed as suicide.

Do you have any data to back that up or any type of non anecdotal evidence? Not attacking you. I actually want to know but I don't believe the, "Your data is incorrect because the way you collect data is flawed. However what I think is correct even without any data." argument is particularly strong.

Re:Fighting the “loneliness epidemic” at work by hpbd on Wednesday November 28, 2018 @01:54PM (#18554452)
>Whites officially commit suicide more than blacks because blacks who are even slightly inclined to self-destruction find it all to easy to get into situations that produce death by means that won't officially be viewed as suicide.

We all know what you're implying but you're making that statistic up.

Re:Fighting the “loneliness epidemic” at work by dragonwriter on Wednesday November 28, 2018 @02:02PM (#18554520)
> We all know what you're implying

Implying? I was being explicit, if general because I was referring to a broad class of phenomenon. If you think I was using code for something narrowly specific, you are mistaken.

> but you're making that statistic up.

I'm not presenting a statistic, made up or not.

Re:Fighting the “loneliness epidemic” at work by hpbd on Wednesday November 28, 2018 @02:19PM (#18554697)
Yes, you're saying that suicide rates for blacks are lower because they are killed by means that aren't seen as suicide at a higher rate. That's a statistic. Please back it.