• Bluefalcon@discuss.tchncs.de
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    “God, you’re hot. Do you know that? Where do you go to school at?”

    How do you possible make this worse? Ask them where they wll be later.

    Not calling for violence but how does this not get you tarred and feather in the parking lot?

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      Not calling for violence but how does this not get you tarred and feather in the parking lot?

      Haven’t you noticed? pedophiles are in fashion now… they can even be presidents

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      Here’s why:

      “Boys will be boys.”

      “He’s not wrong, she is hot.”

      “Little slut deserves it for dressing like that.”

      “Why didn’t I think of this? I wonder if he has any videos.”

      “Note to self: accept his 4th of July pool party invitation this year.”

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        There is more effective ways of dealing with it, outside of violence. I do like tar and feather though, just the right amount of violence

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      Pedophiles are praise worthy unless you are trying to make it big on the Internet, then you beat up random people who cant fight back and pretend they are this guy.

      Everyone is willingly living a hypocritical lie these days.

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      They also have a phone number you can call about the fact there is a school board member, Keith Ervin, who already was not allowed into schools unsupervised because of his sexual comments towards children before this event.

      423-753-1100

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    White House chief of staff: “Mr president… we’ve found your new Secretary of Education sir”

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    anyone else in that room who did not immediately stand up and drag this douche out by the ear is complicit.

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      Didnt hear them laughing at it and the one older lady going “ohhh you” as if he does this all the time to children?
      Cause they are accpeting of it. It comes from being bigger than the allegations.

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        as if he does this all the time to children?

        It wasn’t just “a child”, it was a fellow board member. Guy has zero respect for the office, the students, or women generally speaking.

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          I honestly don’t get how that makes it worse. Like, doing this to a board member is worse??? I don’t get this stance at all.

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            I think they meant the “oh you” comment was from a board member. The article says he said it to a student.

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            Like, doing this to a board member is worse???

            Doing this to some random student is gross.

            Doing this to another board member is also gross. But it signifies a kind of structural disrespect that undermines the office as well as the individual. It’s symptomatic of a general institutional disgust for student involvement in school affairs.

            Like Bush Jr doing the creepy shoulder rub on Angela Merkel or - in a more extreme example - UN staffers who were “approached, accosted and raped” by fellow officials and dignitaries. It isn’t merely a personal transgression. It undermines the entire function of the representative body.

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    But think of the children!

    These are the same people who push things like age verification, and banning porn. The really worse part about this, despite his hand-waving “I didn’t mean to offend anyone” bullshit, is that this apparently has become so normalized that this has become something that is taking a large amount of effort and time to resolve (if it ever gets resolved).

    In any normal timeline, this a) would have never happened so publicly, and 2) he would’ve been immediately removed and stepped down in shame.

    But here we are: the Dark Ages pt. 2. Their masks are off, and they are leaving their shame behind. This is our new normal.

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      La crisi consiste appunto nel fatto che il vecchio muore e il nuovo non può nascere: in questo interregno si verificano i fenomeni morbosi piú svariati.

      • Antonio Gramsci

      Now is the time of monstrous acts

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        You might think history teaches; it repeats;

        page after page, a poem in perfect rhyme

        tolls echoing bells from both sides of the sheets

        for births and funerals, tells the time

        of ageless Alice, Hamlet’s fallacies—

        the latest light from vanished galaxies.

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          As Antonio Gramsci would put from his prison cell while wondering why Italy became Fascist without people putting up a fight.

          History teaches, but it has no pupils

          We fell to the same thing, we let the wealthy define our culture. Our culture is now that of being cruel and taking. And people wish to be popular and wealthy more than moral or right. So we shift towards their world and act like them, till we have the cruelty in our own hearts.

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          Well alas we’ve seen it all before

          Knights in armor, days of yore

          The same old fears and the same old crimes

          We haven’t changed since ancient times

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    Wow, that’s… that’s pretty cut-and-dry. Like honestly what the fuck? How the hell did literally no one stop that meeting right then and there?

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      He only wrapped his arm around her and asked where a hot child could be found later…

      She was in no immediate danger. Didnt you hear the school board’s statement?

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    The public hearing for possible action will be here for those in the area:

    April 8th, 4:00pm

    405 W College Street Jonesborough, TN, 37659

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    Ok, I’ve said this before and I will say it again. If you want to find someone who has a drive to do something they shouldn’t you look for the jobs that allow them to do so without much oversight/consequence or where it is actively incentivised. Are you a profit driven sociopath? Corporate management/executive will treat you just right. Wish to do violence to people, maybe specifically brown people? The police and the military got you covered. Want to diddle kids? The implicit permission and authority of the priesthood, teacher, school admin/board member gets you a ton of access and assumed innocence.

    That does not mean that every person who works in corporate is a sociopath, that every soldier is a violent racist, and that every priest is a pedophile. But if you ARE a sociopath, violent racist, or pedophile, you can see how those jobs might appeal to you and so you are certainly going to find more of those kinds of people in those professions than elsewhere.

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      The problem is how the institutions deal with it. If they try to cover it up, the whole institution is complicit.

      Take the Boy Scouts for example. It’s an organization dealing almost exclusively with children, so of course pedophiles will be attracted to it.

      Does that mean that all about leaders are pedophiles? Of course not. But the fact that the BSA swept it under the rug to save face means you can’t be sure anything will be done if there’s one in your troop.

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      This, exactly. I work as a baby seal clubber, and some of my colleagues definitely have questionable motives for doing the job.

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        Jokes aside. Obviously, not all of these jobs require nefarious motives or deplorable personalities to attract people to those roles. Teachers, for example, are more likely to be people that have a commendable desire to care for and mold young minds. But I defy you to talk to show me a single person that didn’t have a direct encounter with or know of persistent rumors of one or more teachers at their schools that were, at minimum, creepy.

        Soldiers can just be poor kids without real prospects sold on hero propaganda without actual malice. But there are none-to-few soldiers with a bloodlust searching for an excuse.

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    What’s wild is they don’t get what’s wrong about this. “It was meant to be complimentary” “was in no immediate danger”. Fucking what?

    1: that phrasing directed at an underage student your responsible for 2: the follow up with “what school do you go to?” As if he’s gonna look her up later

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    By the way, he asked her what school she goes to… As if he doesnt already know.
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      Thankfully, if that hard-to-get little vixen of a teenager lied about what school she goes to, he likely has the resources to look up her school and home address!

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        I was gonna make a joke back about him bringing her some homework but i think the ick factor dropped it being funny to me again.

        Cause i mean… He could. He could look up her address and likely her parents and know when to abuse his position to go to her house or pull her out of class. Its not funny to pretend to not be upset about this is where i am at.

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        Not “likely”, definitely.

        And, the “resources” is an email to the school administration. They wouldn’t even ask why. They’d just send over her entire file--address, family, friends, grades, classes, teachers, school schedule, after school activities--everything.

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    Later, he would be heard to scoff in indignation at the response to his comment saying “what it was a compliment!”

    He went on to tell the female reporter to smile more.