I love how people post more about this than about the Holocaust remembrance.

Same month, and only a couple days between them.

Just so we're clear:

There is a very stark difference between the willful, calculated slaughter of many, many people at the whim of a cold-hearted regime and the accountability bullies have for the choices of life and death made by their victims.

For one, you can't use therapy to save the lives of the millions of people systematically put to death under Hitler.

Look, whilst I agree that the sort of twisted social and psychoemotional attacks and mind games played upon vulnerable people, I don't see why we have to draw a line in the dirt and just complain about the LGBTOMGWTFBBQ people who get this treatment.

To me this sort of special attention seems like just more divisive observation meant to give asspats to a special interest group.

By God, I know they're people, real and living and breathing- or not living and breathing, as the case may be... But I just don't see the point.

Did Holocaust victims get therapy and emotional support? Probably not until long, long after the fact, and likely it didn't start to work until many years of continuous, dedicated treatment. There are soldiers these days who got PTSD from the loud guns and the possibility of death- probably a situation that lasted less than an hour or a couple days. I can bet you that the average Holocaust survivor was steeped in the constant disdain for life and equal fear of death and the suffocating social scene of xenophobia and blind hatred way, way longer than an hour.

I do not minimize the emotional anguish of emotionally vulnerable youths, but I just wanted to point out this quaint little discrepancy between the remembrance of many people directly alienated and killed and the disorganized antisocial behavior of kids to other kids that indirectly influences some of these victimized kids to go open an artery with a razor blade.

You can't blame a bully for what his victim does- a bullied person is still very much a human being, and us capable of choosing. Whilst when people are pretty irrational when suicidal, I still think it's up to the person actually contemplating the suicide, not the little monster that put him in that emotional state.

I'm sure there are plenty of schools of thought that would lay blame at the feet of the antagonist, but unless the kid kidnaps the other kid and locks him in a room with a chair and a strung-up noose, I fail to see the bully's accountability for the choices of his victim.

That's what this whole thing's about, right? The suicidal LGBTOMGWTFBBQ teenagers and the bullies that love[ to antagonize] them?

'Cause I think our priorities are a bit fucked if all we're doing is REMEMBERING these kids and sucking up to them for a day.

Hey, here's an idea: DO SOMETHING

Enough with this slacktivism of "Oh moment of silence moment of silence wear a ribbon make a fartwork BAWW in a journal". You see something, say something, and actually DO something following saying something.

Enough with the rhetoric.

But I'm digressing.

The potent irony of this ultra-dramatized bullying issue on one particular group- because one group is so much different than the rest of the people getting bullied, harassed, and alienated- being given more attention than the systematic slaughter of many people is simply staggering.

Yes, you could make the argument that "Hey, that was then, this other thing is NOW", but...really? At the end of the day, I'd daresay the Holocaust still warrants stern, dedicated remembrance, regardless if it was about 70 years ago or 300 years ago. It must never be repeated, and any chance of recurrence must be squelched and averted.

If you're so concerned with saving the lives of suicidal teens, donate to the relevant organizations handling the problem or join said organizations, help make the field of therapy better one with higher standards so that the people counseled will be legitimately diverted from their suicidal thoughts and continue on to have happy, productive lives.

You can't stop there being mean bastards in the world, nor can you really stop them from acting on their antisocial impulses.

What you can do, however, is minimize the rate at which it happens via whatever campaigning one might do and make sure the people who get subjected to it are able to deal with it in a healthy manner and stand on their own two feet in their situation.

And that's about it.

4/20 was already a day of silence for me since 1999 against school bullying (i.e. Columbine).

Never seen students bullying each other because of their orientation or gender expression. Sometimes the "omega" object really was LGBT and bullies use it against this person. But the reason and the root of this problem was in this person's social "weakness". Anyone can become an "omega" and the reason is somewhere deeper than those appearance things like being poor, or fat, ot LGBT.