A busybody named Maureen Costello from the Southern Poverty Law Center - a world leader in the grievance industry - is all worked up about various schools not doing enough about anti-homosexual harassment. In typical nanny-state nagspeak, she cites example after example of homosexual kids becoming despondent or committing suicide over angst related to their treatment at the hands of schoolmates.
So I have to wonder: is this really a problem on the rise? It's hard to imagine that kids are less tolerant of the homosexual mental disorder than they were ten, twenty or a hundred years ago. It's a matter of pride with an unfortunate number of them, in fact, just how tolerant they are. One wonders why there isn't a similar concern with tolerance for schizophrenia, manic depression or agoraphobia...but I digress.
Why are we suddenly being harangued about this? Hey, it's an unfortunate fact that teens tend to be unstable. Lots of them commit suicide every year and have done so forever. What would a kid who commits suicide in 2010 over being teased about his pink hair have done though in, say 1950. Or 1850 for that matter?
I think that professional nags like Costello don't really want to delve into that too deeply because the answer is pretty self-evident. The kids wouldn't have died their hair pink or "come out of the closet," wouldn't have been teased, and wouldn't have committed suicide. I suspect that pondering that too deeply would lead Ms. Costello down paths she doesn't want to explore.
Can't you hear the outrage already? How DARE I suggest these poor kids should stay in the closet! How intolerant!
Yawn. My way they're alive. Your way they're dead.
Next phony crisis, please.
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