Originally Posted by
KenV
Hmmmm. Blacks, gays, women, lesbians, etc, etc were discriminated against "in many walks of life" for generations. And their suicide rate was 800% higher than the rest of the population until fairly recently as that discrimination was removed.
O wait. No it wasn't.
Look up
Red Herring.
I don't know about you guys, but we definitely had an issue with higher suicide rates as a result of government-sponsored discrimination. Alan Turing, who contributed quite a lot to the war effort, lost his security clearance and had to submit to chemical castration as a "treatment" for his homosexuality, and ended up committing suicide. If we'd treated him in the way we would now, he'd have been able to contribute a lot more to our country, and there's every reason to believe he'd have lived a lot longer too.