Roujin wrote:The news just keeps coming... https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/mar/20/revealed-the-grim-list-of-sex-abuse-claims-against-metropolitan-police?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other Get me off this hell world.
A separate incident involved an officer who was dismissed after allegedly sending shocking posts on the messaging app Kik. The summary of the initial claims against him reveal that his messages included “comments stating that he wished to rape the females in the picture and have them raped by others. The images appear to be his daughter and niece.”
Lovely.Activision Blizzard issued a lengthy response statement to The Verge that mainly hit out at the investigation by the DFEH. The company called the lawsuit "irresponsible behaviour from unaccountable State bureaucrats that are driving many of the State's best businesses out of California".
I was thinking surely any big business would have put processes in place over a decade ago to stop this sort of thing. That response says they didn't.Frosty wrote:Lovely.Activision Blizzard issued a lengthy response statement to The Verge that mainly hit out at the investigation by the DFEH. The company called the lawsuit "irresponsible behaviour from unaccountable State bureaucrats that are driving many of the State's best businesses out of California".
poprock wrote:Watched the news tonight and then watched The Handmaid’s Tale. I remember an interview with Margaret Atwood where she took pains to point out that The Handmaid’s Tale was never science fiction, she just took things that have happened and are still happening to women elsewhere in the world and wrote a book about them happening in America.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/aug/15/an-afghan-woman-in-kabul-now-i-have-to-burn-everything-i-achieved
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