> Das Zentrum für Suchtmedizin Arud organisiert zusammen mit dem Checkpoint Zürich im September die erste Chemsex-Tagung in der Schweiz. Einerseits möchte man darüber informieren. Andererseits sollen negative Stereotypen, wie unter anderem, dass die Betroffenen selber Schuld seien, abgebaut werden. Denn eine Diskriminierung der «Chemsex-Community» sei problematisch. «Sie kann dazu führen, dass Menschen, die Hilfe bräuchten, diese nicht in Anspruch nehmen», sagt Dominique Emch, Psychologin im Checkpoint Zürich.
So, first off: It is good and also important that those people can and do get help. With that being said: How exactly is it discrimination or a negative stereotype that it’s those people’s own fault? Unless someone forced them to go there, forced them to take all sorts of drugs and also forced them to f*** around without condoms (in which case there should be a whole slew of serious criminal charges against the people responsible), it’s clearly their own fault. That’s not discrimination and also not a “negative stereotype”. It’s simply a fact. Or does being gay somehow prevent people from acting responsibly? I don’t think so. Therefore, it IS their own fault. Unless (as mentioned before) they were abducted and forced to do all that etc.
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> Das Zentrum für Suchtmedizin Arud organisiert zusammen mit dem Checkpoint Zürich im September die erste Chemsex-Tagung in der Schweiz. Einerseits möchte man darüber informieren. Andererseits sollen negative Stereotypen, wie unter anderem, dass die Betroffenen selber Schuld seien, abgebaut werden. Denn eine Diskriminierung der «Chemsex-Community» sei problematisch. «Sie kann dazu führen, dass Menschen, die Hilfe bräuchten, diese nicht in Anspruch nehmen», sagt Dominique Emch, Psychologin im Checkpoint Zürich.
So, first off: It is good and also important that those people can and do get help. With that being said: How exactly is it discrimination or a negative stereotype that it’s those people’s own fault? Unless someone forced them to go there, forced them to take all sorts of drugs and also forced them to f*** around without condoms (in which case there should be a whole slew of serious criminal charges against the people responsible), it’s clearly their own fault. That’s not discrimination and also not a “negative stereotype”. It’s simply a fact. Or does being gay somehow prevent people from acting responsibly? I don’t think so. Therefore, it IS their own fault. Unless (as mentioned before) they were abducted and forced to do all that etc.
Or am I missing something here?