Right-wing commentators denied welfare suicides could be evidence against reform

Evidence

Welfare suicides don’t exist. Suicide is a mental health issue.” That line, by the former Labour official Luke Bozier, pretty much sums up the standard right-wing response to the website Calum’s List. According to its founders, the aim of Calum’s List is “to list the number of deaths where welfare reform has alleged to have had some culpability, and to make the best effort possible to work towards reducing this death toll.” — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1597

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: Directly supports and extends the biopolitics strain: welfare reform killing people is a concrete instance of capitalist realism’s structural violence.
• XREF: connects to: The rationality of suicide is irrelevant to welfare critiques — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1600; Unsourced impressions replaced hard statistics and justified denying welfare resources — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 971; Opponents of welfare suicide statistics employed mutually incompatible arguments

Broader Connections

• Unsourced impressions replaced hard statistics and justified denying welfare resources #expands (0.75) — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 971
• The rationality of suicide is irrelevant to welfare critiques #responds-to (0.72) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1600