Personal Perspective: Dangerous rhetoric has fueled violence against the LGBTQ+ community. We need to stop dismissing the power of words.
“Sticks and stones will break my bones, but words will never hurt me.” The saying takes me back to the playgrounds of mywhere I heard it chanted countless times. It leaves me wondering, did we really believe it? Or were we trying to convince ourselves of it, to prevent the hurtful words from lodging too deeply into our fragile psyches?
Toni Morrison stated,"Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge." With this in mind, we have the opportunity to broaden our understanding that hateful and oppressive language does not just enable violence but is violence itself.
Respondents in the survey indicated that nearly two in five youth lived in an environment that was somewhat or very unaccepting of LGBTQ+ people and that those who lived in an accepting community reported significantly lower rates of attempted suicide.
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