What is BIPOC? What is Allyship? Listen to Your Language.

Understanding the wokeification of American suicide prevention as white self-styled radicals pretending to act on behalf of Native Americans and LGBTQ people.

This Substack story continues the narrative of my earlier story, The American Association of Suicidology Statement on Equity and Anti-Racism.

This is how far out the opening to this AAS statement gets:

We believe that the only way for the field of suicidology to reduce suicide and build lives worth living for BIPOC is to dismantle systems of oppression. Systemic racism not only affects how we understand and provide access to mental health care and crisis support, it frames how suicide and mental health are conceptualized, how resources including funding get allocated, and what questions are deemed worthy of research funding. Furthermore, we pledge to examine AAS’s structure and operation to understand how racist and oppressive systems are embedded in our functioning in order to shift our own organization to have anti-racist perspectives and practices

I conclude in this installment that the AAS Statement is a deadly serious form of play performed by clowning whites who won’t step out of t…