This is kind of funny, and kind of sad. An armed carjacking was occurring in Minneapolis and the thief who was shooting at police was shot dead. Black Lives Matter heard about the ongoing event and showed up to protest - only to turn around and go back to the Floyd protesting site when the "victim" of the police shooting turned out to be a white carjacker and not a black one. Seriously, you want to protest the death of someone who is actually shooting at the police?

And as an aside, what does it say about BLM when they hear about a carjacking and *assume* it's a black man who's responsible?

I guess that movement's over.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/blm-protesters-rally-for-victim-leave-after-learning-he-was-white

 

@Purri, here's a great example of a family selling their house and the husband and children moving to where the wife's job took them. If this isn't a great example of the progress of women in the workplace, I don't know what is.

"Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett has sold the South Bend, Indiana home where she’s lived with her family for the last 19 years, according to a local report.

The justice and her husband Jesse Barrett are said to have sold the Harter Heights home to a University of Notre Dame professor about two weeks after the brick Arts and Crafts-style house hit the market, the South Bend Tribune reported on Monday. The 4,232-square-foot space was listed for $899,900, though it’s unclear how much the property ultimately sold for.

Jesse said they sold the house so he and their seven children could join Amy in Washington, D.C. in time for the upcoming school year, describing the decision as "what’s best for our family."

"We moved here in 2002 when Amy got her teaching job at Notre Dame, and we have lived in this house since then," he told the Chicago Tribune. "It’s a 1915 Arts and Crafts style house, and my recollection is that it was built by someone in the school of Frank Lloyd Wright.""

https://www.foxnews.com/real-estate/justice-amy-coney-barrett-sells-indiana-home-listed-899g

 

Sure, groups that feel marginalized are going to act up. Sometimes that's justified, sometimes it's not. The key to one's OWN feelings of self-worth though come from inside.

On tech as an industry, remember this is still a *new* industry and *most* of the companies out there still have their founders as CEO's. Many of the executives are the friends of the CEO and they went to school each with each other, etc. Boys like that type of thing more than girls do in general, and IMO it's no surprise that things are the way they are. As the industry matures it will become more balanced. These people want to make *money*, and whatever will make them the most money is what they'll do.

And I think it's funny you are opposed to the men in tech who supposedly exclude women from jobs, but don't say the same for nurses who exclude men. I'd bet a group full of women nurses with a female nursing supervisor can make a lone man feel very unwelcome, give him all the dirty jobs, moving boxes, transporting patients, etc.. How is this not the same thing?

On children, c'mon, man! Sure women are the only ones who can have children and breastfeed, but after that? Both parents could do the same work equally. Do they? Generally, no. The reality is women tend to get the brunt of these responsibilities in part because we have to, and truthfully, in part because we want it that way. And "no", I'm not saying you never want help or are just aching to sit with a sick child, you want *help*, but do you *really* want your husband raising your child 100% of the time while you just go to work? I don't think most women do.

And my point was that as this is the reality, in the workplace women can get away with things that men can't. That's the other side of the "not as much respect or wages" coin.

At the end of the day, self-worth through earning respect *is* the answer.

 

LOL, I'd be willing to bet the occasional young female student gets fawned over by all the males in the group at a computer place as well. It's a bit different though when it's a permanent employment situation and people are arguing over vacation days, salary, who has to do what, etc. Is it going to be the *same*? No, because men and women do things differently in general. I'd bet it can be pretty miserable either way, though, given the right people in charge.

 

As a bit of humor, this Sheriff's deputy made a video poking fun of LeBron. It's pretty funny, and down towards the end of the article are the parts that make the most sense.

Anyway, the video's about a police officer arriving on the scene where one black guy is stabbing another, and he calls LeBron to ask for advice. It ends with the cop saying, "sorry guys, I've gotta go, you're on your own."

https://www.newsweek.com/tiktok-video-cop-mocking-lebron-james-viewed-over-24m-times-1586292

 

So can we call this a hate crime? This woman has had her license to drive suspended 14 times, and while driving drunk this time ran over a policeman, killing him. She also does a podcast where that very evening she was filmed saying, "F the police", etc., and ranting about Chauvin and other disparaging things about the police. Then she goes out and kills a police officer. Isn't that a hate crime?

Not that it will matter to his wife and children to whom he's lost, regardless, but it's time for this woman to pay for what she's done. Her saying, "I'm sorry" doesn't bring him back to life.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/drunken-driver-nypd-im-sorry

 

And that sounds great, but it's not reality today. What about the recent situation where a police officer arrived after being called about a woman trying to stab another woman, and when he arrived on scene the woman was actively trying to stab another woman. After she kept trying to stab the other woman he ended up shooting her to save the other woman's life and the police officer was STILL said to be in the wrong by a lot of people! There's no way they can do the job they are trained to do in a culture like that. And you know what I missed seeing? Where was the family of the victim after this? Why wasn't there video of them *thanking* the police for saving their daughter's life? Showing some appreciation would go a long way towards making the police feel like they are *wanted* in the community in the first place.

As far as sending out social workers, etc., I'm fine with that, but I wonder how long it'll take for the same community to complain when a social worker shows up instead of an armed police officer and there's some bad outcome as a result. Not long, I bet.

 

Some Good News on the police front:

"
A Denver police officer facing charges in a wrong-way crash received some support from an unlikely source this week: a truck driver who suffered a broken leg in the crash.

Christopher Cordova says he’s willing to forgive Officer Jacob Marsh, who was arrested Tuesday on a possible felony charge of vehicular assault, according to FOX 31 of Denver.

"He was doing his job," Cordova told the station, referring to the police officer. "Do I think the gentleman needs to lose his job over this situation? I don’t."

Marsh was traveling 75 mph in a 45 mph zone in an unmarked vehicle April 13 while pursuing a driver who was heading in the wrong direction down a street, court documents say, according to FOX 31.

Along the way, the police officer crashed his vehicle into Cordova’s work truck. The officer suffered a broken hand while Cordova suffered his injury, the station reported.

But Cordova claims the crash was an accident, not a crime, FOX 31 reported.

"If you can’t forgive, you can’t move on and you can’t grow," Cordova said. "That’s my belief.""

https://www.foxnews.com/us/denver-t...cer-who-crashed-into-him-he-was-doing-his-job

 

Actually, SVU is the one L&O I do NOT watch! I really like the old-school Law and Order the best, but will also watch Criminal Intent because I like Goren, hee hee.

SVU is just too creepy for me.

On the "young girl", if it was MY daughter whose life was saved, I'd have told the officer "thank you".

 

Yeah, but even if he was killed he wouldn't complain about it. I appreciated the fact that he recognized the cop was chasing someone who was endangering the public. I think that's a good thing.

And you know, some people *do* forgive the person who killed their family members, so we really don't know what the family would do.