Originally Posted by
pasta
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.
Two comments:
1. A single example does not a "rate" make.
2. Was the suicide rate among gays, blacks and women EVER even remotely 800% higher that the general population's suicide rate?
That being said, what happened to Turing is an abomination, and that anecdote used in this context is another example of a
red herring.