Exactly. I believe NONE of this. NO ONE gives up seats to pregnant women, elderly women and especially someone else’s kids. And NO ONE even so much as TOUCHES a child!!!! I expect them to ‘Ellen Degeneras’ soon and quietly move away with little fanfare so no one can call them out on their failed 🐂💩 ‘Look how happy we are’ plan.
“I have been pleasantly surprised by how kind 99% of people have been. I will get to the subway, and before I even fold up my stroller, strangers pick up the other end and carry it for me. Everyone stands up and offers seats to my kids, or older women have even grabbed one of my kids’ hands and helped them on or off the subway for me.”
The best life lessons are always learned the hard way.
Lol.
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Anecdote: In my working years my “office” (for as long as I had to commute to it) was in Hartford, CT. It is a very dangerous city though the downtown area appears somewhat civilized during working hours.
A new attorney was hired fresh out of law school.
He decided to rent an apartment in a downtown high rise.
One Saturday (about a year later) he walked into the parking garage and was brutally mugged by black thugs.
When he finally got patched up he packed up and moved out to the suburbs—where everybody else in the office lived.
“Look how happy we are’ plan.”
Wait till the first time their neighbors get involved with a shooting or robbery and a social worker shows up with a pad of paper instead of a cop with a gun. Bet that won’t be heard on her podcast.
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People stand up to offer a seat to a child? Never happened. It is a lie.
“Exactly. I believe NONE of this. NO ONE gives up seats to pregnant women, elderly women and especially someone else’s kids. “
YOU are incorrect.
I do not live in Manhattan but get over there often enough. Yes, you do see strangers helping mom’s with baby carriages navigate subway stairs and on and off of buses. You do see people, men and women, offering pregnant moms and elderly a seat on a bus or subway. You do see many other similar acts of kindness by strangers in Manhattan.
One basic problem with crimes stats is often what is reported are total numbers. That distorts the local impact of crime because it does not match those numbers with the total of the local population in a per capita sense. That is the only sense by which local people, in general, “feel” crime. The higher rate per capita, not the total number, is what reflects how widely felt crime is among the population.
Here is the U.S. Violent Crime Rates Per Capita for the top 20 cities. Notice the city or cities NOT on the list. And notice also how Memphis and New Orleans have higher crime rates than Chicago on a per capita basis, though in this forum it is Chicago that is talked about constantly. New York does not even make the list, but with 7 million people spread out 305 square miles, it should not be surprising to see how NYC does not top the list.
https://getsafeandsound.com/blog/violent-crime-per-capita-by-city/
In another set of murder rates for top 30 cities, only a single portion of NYC, the Bronx, makes the list, coming it at 26th out of 30; and look at all the cities ranked worse than the Bronx.
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/ranked-the-top-30-u-s-cities-by-homicide-rate/
Whole numbers for crime data DO show “how much”, but per capita numbers show how widespread, or more or less widespread than you imagined. A visitor to New Orleans or Memphis has a greater chance of being part of or witnessing a major crime than a visitor to Manhattan.