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Post by luro2020 on Oct 6, 2017 17:10:29 GMT
www.reddit.com/r/worstof/comments/3g5qx0/rshort_user_says_he_is_going_to_kill_himself/ I came across this thread where reddit users basically blamed this guy who was suicidal, saying r/short was full of shitty people (they wouldn't be wrong now) and they pulled the whole "just bitter cause you can't get laid, it's your attitude" thing. This one comment struck me "Height isn't really an issue for emotionally mature people". It isn't an issue for idiots either. He's also blaming the short man's feelings rather than the people who drove him to suicide. This is unbelievable, it's quite like the child suicide posts, we have somebody who ended their own life, and they are blamed. This is our society and how they view short men, wow, just wow, although i'm not surprised.
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Post by Heightism Report on Oct 8, 2017 5:21:01 GMT
There is so much blame to go around for the issues at r/short, but every time it gets linked to another subreddit, people can't help but to talk about how horrible the posters at r/short are. For far too long, they would pick the most idiotic outspoken minority of posters to represent the whole sub, and then, pretend as though everyone who discusses heightism embodies those other idiotic posters. It's also the only subreddit where people will always believe what the trolls post because it fits their narrative that short men are awful people.
The following is a comment from r/short that a poster in the linked thread is criticizing.
"Being a short man is a million times worse than being retarded or crippled. We are treated worse than Jews in Nazi Germany."
That's obviously a troll post or someone who is so much of an idiot that they don't need to be taken seriously. However, that's one of the main straw man arguments people use to try to squash discussion about heightism.
R/short has not developed any safeguards to keep that type of bullshit from being posted, and they don't care if their narrative gets hijacked by people who cherry pick troll posts to represent the entire sub.
People always have a rationalization so as not to discuss serious issues relating to heightism, even suicide. They always blame the suicidal person, and when the person does follow through with the threat of suicide, they'll dismiss it as some form of garden variety mental illness, and when heightism is proven to be the main catalyst for suicide, they'll dismiss that by saying "heightism isn't the issue, bullying is" as if bullying someone strictly for their height isn't height-related, and as if short people aren't more likely to be the the targets of bullying. Everything is either "all in our head," or when stuff actually does happen and heightism is the definitive cause, at that point, it gets dismissed as something else such as "regular bullying" or something else that will allow people to keep the heightist status-quo in check. It's truly sickening. There's never a good time or circumstance for us to have a serious discussion about heightism
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