• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    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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      4 hours ago

      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.

      • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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        4 hours ago

        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.

      • village604@adultswim.fan
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        3 hours ago

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