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A little bit of mercy makes the world less cold and more just.
Pope Francis
A little bit of mercy makes the world less cold and more just.
Pope Francis
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PLEASE SIGN THE PETITION
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- 2 days ago250 supporters
Amazon
is currently selling t-shirts that mock suicide. Thousands die every
year because of this preventable public health crisis.
Suicide destroys lives, families, and societies. It is not a punch line.
As a suicide attempt survivor, I call on Amazon to do the right thing and remove these products. I will boycott Amazon until this happens, and they apologize for the harm done. I hope you join me.
Suicide destroys lives, families, and societies. It is not a punch line.
As a suicide attempt survivor, I call on Amazon to do the right thing and remove these products. I will boycott Amazon until this happens, and they apologize for the harm done. I hope you join me.
Letter to
Amazon.com
Mark Henick
started this petition with a single signature, and now has 43,336
supporters. Start a petition today to change something you care about.
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this done for Rehtaeh Parsons, Jamie from Ottawa, Amanda, Courtney, Mitchell
(9yr old), Jon, Todd and too many Vets and those suffering from mental health
issues..... just like Star Wars Monopoly bowed to an 8yr old girl.... proving
in business... girls matter..... One Billion Rising -No More excuses or abuses
and in Canada at least... we are kicking 'stigma' of mental illness to the
curb. Just know our Olympic Champion
Clara Hughes will be signing... asking #firstresponders #PTSD our troops and all who care about
bullying and bullycides of our kids.... Bully Project ... please sign the
petition... and Ellen DeGeneres -we're counting on u girl.
Toronto
man starts online petition urging Amazon to stop selling suicide t-shirts
Suicide-themed t-shirts sold on Amazon.
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Mark Henick, 28, has launched an online petition on Change.org that has garnered support from hundreds of people.
Amazon did not respond to a request for comment on Henick’s petition.
Henick says the shirts may seem like a joke, but they can trigger bad memories for people who’ve lost a family member or friend to suicide, or those who may have attempted suicide in the past.
“There’s no place for this kind of product in any marketplace,” Henick said.
He said the shirt appeared to be encouraging someone to commit suicide.
“Their little joke is doing just that, essentially, sitting back and watching somebody hang themselves,” Henick said. “I don’t find that funny, and from what I can gather nobody else does either.”
Henick said he speaks regularly about his “multiple suicide attempts” as a teenager and added that “when you don’t talk about them it increases the risk for it happening again.”
Several commenters on the petition site called the shirts “disgusting.”
“Selling ‘suicide’ and mocking mental illness is both cruel & a horrible business decision. You lost my business,” Paul Gallant of Vancouver said in a comment.
“I’m signing because there is not a single possible aspect of these shirts that is funny, entertaining or even acceptable,” Chad Pendleton of Kansas posted.
Henick said he was inspired to start the petition after reading about a 14-year-old Calgary girl who was urging people to write letters to Amazon asking them to stop selling the shirts.
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Girls
Matter- our youth are stepping up - Amazon is being nailed for their
insensitive horrific t-shirts on suicide by Calgary Teen... and now this 8 year
old... THE LETTER- One Billion Rising-
No More Excuses or Abuses Star Wars
Monopoly 2 add Rey game piece after girl
complains|The Chronicle Herald
Star Wars
Monopoly to add Rey game piece after girl complains
MICHELLE
R. SMITH The Associated Press
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — The Star Wars version of Monopoly will add a game piece based on the female character Rey after an eight-year-old girl wrote to game maker Hasbro complaining about the omission and telling them: “Girls matter.”
Carrie Goldman, of Evanston, Illinois, posted a letter on Twitter this week written by her daughter, Annie Rose, asking why Hasbro left out Rey when she is a main character of the latest movie in the series Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
The letter begins by asking the company why it would exclude the heroine of the story.
“Without her THERE IS NO FORCE AWAKENS! It awakens in her! And without her, the bad guys would have won! Besides, boys and girls need to see that women can be as strong as men!” she wrote. “Girls matter!”
The original game includes just four pieces, all modeled on male characters: Luke Skywalker, Darth Vader, Finn and Kylo Ren. The decision to exclude Rey led to a social media debate, with many fans tweeting under the hashtag #WheresRey.
Goldman, an author who has written about toys and gender issues, included the hashtag as she tweeted a picture of her daughter’s letter to Hasbro.
Hasbro responded in a tweet of its own two days later.
“We love your passion for Rey and are happy to share that we are including her in the Monopoly: Star Wars game, available later this year,” it said.
Julie Duffy, a spokeswoman for the Pawtucket, Rhode Island-based company, said Wednesday that it did not include Rey in the game to avoid revealing a key plot line. The game was released in September, months before the movie was released, though Goldman noted that at the time it was well-known that Rey would be a central character.
Goldman said the response to Annie Rose’s letter shows she struck a nerve, and people are ready for a change.
“A huge number of the messages I’m getting are from men. This is not a women’s issue. It’s about representing the hero of this film,” she said.
Duffy said anyone who already bought a Rey-less game can contact Hasbro when the updated game comes out and request their own Rey token.
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SHAME ON EU AND COVERING THE HORRIFIC ABUSE OF GIRLS AND WOMEN WELCOMING 2016 - #1BRising
Rex Murphy: Every major authority in Cologne — police, officialdom, press — failed
Oliver Berg/AFP/Getty ImagesMayor
of Cologne Henriette Reker at a press conference on January 5, 2016.,
where she suggested women who wanted to avoid being attacked should keep
an arm's length away from unknown men.
On
the one-year anniversary of the Charlie Hebdo slaughter — 12 people
killed in all — carried out by two Muslim brothers shouting “We have
avenged the Prophet Muhammad,” there was what appears to have been an
attempt at a “commemorative” attack. A man identified as Sallah Ali
approached a police station with a meat cleaver and a reportedly fake
suicide vest, and was shot dead before he could exercise his grisly
memorial intentions.
Could be, I suppose, the late Mr. Ali just wanted to remind the world how perturbing cartoons are. Yet, even after his fortunately aborted reminder, and after the far more brutal executions of the original attack, there are still some who mewl that while “everyone agrees that executing 12 people was not really right … still, those cartoons were tasteless, juvenile, blather,” and the rest.
The emasculating logic of political correctness always seeks a path to throw dirt on the victims, while offering something of a clearance sale on the responsibility of the murderers. As it is the essence of political correctness that the tolerant society — the open, multicultural, diverse society — is always both catalyst and agent for the horrific deeds of those from intolerant societies.
There was “a riot-like series of sexual assaults and robberies carried out on New Year’s Eve in the center of Cologne,” reads one report. As many as a thousand men, including some suspects the local police have identified as refugees or immigrants, went on a wild spree. Young girls and women were mass assaulted, surrounded by gangs, fondled, at least two claim they were raped. “They made a kind of wall around us … They shouted, groped us, reached under our clothes and undid their pants. It was disgusting and humiliating,” one girl told the media.
Another description is equally distressing: “We walked through the group of men, there was a tunnel through them, we walked through … I was groped everywhere … It was a nightmare. Although we shouted and hit them, the men didn’t stop. I was horrified and I think I was touched around 100 times over the 200 metres.”
As Robyn Urback in Friday’s Post cogently asserted, if you’re looking for an illustration of what real “rape culture” looks like, then Cologne on New Year’s Eve will stand as the abiding example.
What was the initial response of the police and authorities to the outrage? To cover it up. To deny the identity of the malefactors. But the number of women attacked was too large, and the story too horrific, to bury. And so now the police, the guardians of the peoples’ safety, are being “accused of trying to hide the fact asylum seekers were involved for fear of political sensitivities,” according to Britain’s Daily Telegraph. That they “concealed the origin of the suspects” and that a later incident report “report proves identity of suspects was hushed up.” The chief of police suddenly “resigned” on Friday.
The climax of this insanity has to be the words of the very Mayor of Cologne. “We have heard by now that (attacks) have occurred in other cities. This of course is not comforting to us.” She next offered suggestions for avoiding future incidents. More police? Stronger screening of refugees? Of course not. Her recommendations were all directed to the “girls and young women” of the city she presides over, to wit: “maintaining an arm’s length distance from strangers, to stick within your own group, to ask bystanders for help or to intervene as a witness, or to inform the police if you are the victim of such an assault.”
This is “Blame the Victim(s)” on steroids.
Cologne represents the inversion of normal values. Seek everywhere reasons or excuses for intolerable behaviour, except at its source. As with the seeming apologists for Charlie Hebdo, look past the horrific deed itself to how “we” may have contributed to their “anger.” Denigrate the host culture and glide over the offending one. Repress facts and cloud reality in favour of some vague idealism.
Also, with deep and even dangerous irony, political correctness works against itself. The urge to spare outrage against perpetrators multiplies the outrage when the facts — as they always will — emerge. In Cologne every major authority — police, officialdom, press — failed. They essentially lied, by omission or choice, to their citizens. Which will have consequences for all concerned, and not least for those from foreign lands, genuine refugees of good character, who were not involved in the night’s horrors nor ever would be.
National Post
Could be, I suppose, the late Mr. Ali just wanted to remind the world how perturbing cartoons are. Yet, even after his fortunately aborted reminder, and after the far more brutal executions of the original attack, there are still some who mewl that while “everyone agrees that executing 12 people was not really right … still, those cartoons were tasteless, juvenile, blather,” and the rest.
The emasculating logic of political correctness always seeks a path to throw dirt on the victims, while offering something of a clearance sale on the responsibility of the murderers. As it is the essence of political correctness that the tolerant society — the open, multicultural, diverse society — is always both catalyst and agent for the horrific deeds of those from intolerant societies.
The German newspapers and their police originally tried to throw a blanket over the story, to deny its scale and causesIn case the Charlie Hebdo horror doesn’t fully illustrate that thesis, take the fresh-from-the-headlines story of the mass sexual assaults in Cologne just days ago. It is a story that should crease the brows of the most fervid apologists of our brave new diverse world. There’s more than a chance you’ve missed it, since the German newspapers and their police originally tried to throw a blanket over the story, to deny its scale and causes. The coverup could not hold.
There was “a riot-like series of sexual assaults and robberies carried out on New Year’s Eve in the center of Cologne,” reads one report. As many as a thousand men, including some suspects the local police have identified as refugees or immigrants, went on a wild spree. Young girls and women were mass assaulted, surrounded by gangs, fondled, at least two claim they were raped. “They made a kind of wall around us … They shouted, groped us, reached under our clothes and undid their pants. It was disgusting and humiliating,” one girl told the media.
Another description is equally distressing: “We walked through the group of men, there was a tunnel through them, we walked through … I was groped everywhere … It was a nightmare. Although we shouted and hit them, the men didn’t stop. I was horrified and I think I was touched around 100 times over the 200 metres.”
As Robyn Urback in Friday’s Post cogently asserted, if you’re looking for an illustration of what real “rape culture” looks like, then Cologne on New Year’s Eve will stand as the abiding example.
What was the initial response of the police and authorities to the outrage? To cover it up. To deny the identity of the malefactors. But the number of women attacked was too large, and the story too horrific, to bury. And so now the police, the guardians of the peoples’ safety, are being “accused of trying to hide the fact asylum seekers were involved for fear of political sensitivities,” according to Britain’s Daily Telegraph. That they “concealed the origin of the suspects” and that a later incident report “report proves identity of suspects was hushed up.” The chief of police suddenly “resigned” on Friday.
The climax of this insanity has to be the words of the very Mayor of Cologne. “We have heard by now that (attacks) have occurred in other cities. This of course is not comforting to us.” She next offered suggestions for avoiding future incidents. More police? Stronger screening of refugees? Of course not. Her recommendations were all directed to the “girls and young women” of the city she presides over, to wit: “maintaining an arm’s length distance from strangers, to stick within your own group, to ask bystanders for help or to intervene as a witness, or to inform the police if you are the victim of such an assault.”
This is “Blame the Victim(s)” on steroids.
Cologne represents the inversion of normal values. Seek everywhere reasons or excuses for intolerable behaviour, except at its source. As with the seeming apologists for Charlie Hebdo, look past the horrific deed itself to how “we” may have contributed to their “anger.” Denigrate the host culture and glide over the offending one. Repress facts and cloud reality in favour of some vague idealism.
Also, with deep and even dangerous irony, political correctness works against itself. The urge to spare outrage against perpetrators multiplies the outrage when the facts — as they always will — emerge. In Cologne every major authority — police, officialdom, press — failed. They essentially lied, by omission or choice, to their citizens. Which will have consequences for all concerned, and not least for those from foreign lands, genuine refugees of good character, who were not involved in the night’s horrors nor ever would be.
National Post
http://news.nationalpost.com/full-comment/rex-murphy-every-major-authority-in-cologne-police-officialdom-press-failed
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