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Dana...see post 15.
Where I asked the same question right before you did and still don't have an answer either. Well, not exactly the same question...but same vein. Why is the title of the thread not adjusted to the contents of the article?
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#32 |
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lol you must have posted that whilst I was typing my response, I hadn't seen it :P
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#33 |
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I am wondering if the poster has some sort of axe to grind? the focus as well is on 'white males' rather than 'middle-aged' males. This raises a few hackles for me :P
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#34 |
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Heh...here it is everybody. Umm...yea...that's not what the article was called. Now it makes more sense.
http://mentalhopenews.blogspot.com/2...-puzzling.html And here: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/19/us...rssnyt&emc=rss This part was made up and that was unclear to me: ~snip~ White males are committing suicide in record numbers the government has learned, and they are not sure why. The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said that an increase in suicides among white males has increased about 20% in the last several years and this could effect the country as a whole.~snip~ Heh- took me a minute to find the article..... Just some spin. I've gotta get used to the way people write.
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#35 |
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That's fascinating. Why would anybody read that article and come to the conclusion that, very specifically 'white working males' were under threat. At no point in that article does anybody mention the colour of the suicide victims, only the age grouping. There's a mention of gender that shows a larger threat to the female population, and whether the victims were generally in work or not isn't mentioned.
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#36 |
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Why would anyone pretend like the portion they wrote was part of the article?
It doesn't say white males anywhere actually. That is interesting! lol! Joann- you got so busted!!
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Ain't it though? Reeks of white supremacist website reportage to me.
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#38 |
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I would like to wait this out for an explanation from Joann.
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Yeah. By my last comment, I didn't mean necessarily that Joann was the white supremacist, but that she may have got the story from a site that's already doctored it to their own agenda. I've seen the BNP site do that quite a few times: they get a story from a reputable source and add a bit at the start to skew the whole tone of it and post it like it's their own.
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Person who doesn't update the user title
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I'm standing by my original comment--baby boomers killing themselves off in the US can do nothing but good.
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#41 |
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Joann usually provides the link to the article if she posts one. Just not this time...I'm just sayin'.....
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An interesting article, It came as quite a shock, since mainly, and for a long time in this country the suicide rate amongst males (especially gay men) between the age of 18-24 have been significantly higher than all the rest.
Also this comes with added significance as in the news recently (the last couple of days), there has been a spat of suicides in a small welsh town, 17 in total. Bridgend suicide incidents
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#43 |
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How many asstons in a metric buttload?
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#44 |
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Isn't that the car James Bond drives?
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Read? I only know how to write.
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