Thats what you get when you choose your leaders by popularity contest. That wouldn’t be appropriate even if she was an adult.
how else are you suppose to select school board members? should they be appointed by the town/county or something?
White House chief of staff: “Mr president… we’ve found your new Secretary of Education sir”
Might end up attorney general. Have they been on TV before?
everyone at that meeting should be barred from any sort of role in the educational sector + atleast a year long mandatory training on identifying & preventing sexual harassment.
“Protecting the children” is always a cover.
They… just… laughed?
The member would never have said it in the first place, if the school board culture was not already like that.
Everyone in that room is older
https://www.youtube.com/live/977US_SUGg8?t=4560 at 1:16:04
Edit:ed in exact link, thanks lazynooblet
Direct link to clip: https://www.youtube.com/live/977US_SUGg8?t=4560
Oh nice thanks. I’m stealing this.
“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?
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
Heard, one use to be a prince…
yeap… green prince instead of blue
Not calling for violence
the reason this keeps happening is because people refuse to call for violence against filth like this
He’s a symptom. Violence against the idiots who can’t help but say the quiet part out loud on camera won’t stop the millions that do manage to keep the most blatant statements contained to men’s spaces.
What we need is a culture of nuanced introspection and personal growth, where people like him can admit that they’re pigs without it destroying their lives or moral standing, instead being a first step towards rehabilitation. Women and girls deserve to be kept safe from him and boys deserve better teachers, so he wouldn’t be able to work in education until he has done a lot of personal growth, but violence is just scapegoating.
Of course if the state threatens violence unless you pay taxes that pay for people like him to endanger women, then you can engage in organized mutual self-defense. Hard to get to that culture of personal growth otherwise.
In the mean time, people are entitled to organised mutual self-defense against him, which might also include violence but probably won’t.
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
What are those more effective ways?
All the ones I can think of that don’t involve violence don’t seem to be working.
Thats because too many people sit on their ass waiting for other people to take care of it for them.
Coincidentally a lot of them are the same ones who call for violent action (and not all of them lean right).
These actions only work if a majority of citizens actually take them, not sit back and complain about how they dont work because things dont magically get fixed the instant a minority of people do it once.
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.”
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.
Priorities, we got’em!
The only response to that is, “what the f*ck is the matter with you?”
The petition may be found here:
https://www.change.org/p/fire-jerry-boyd-and-keith-ervin-from-washington-county-board-of-education
Let’s do our part, dear friends. And see you on the streets on Mayday at the next protest!
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
Ppl responsible for his appointment should/need to suffer consequences too.
W.T.F?
anyone else in that room who did not immediately stand up and drag this douche out by the ear is complicit.
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.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.
Yeah, I am just using the word cause the article doesnt bother with it.
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.
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.
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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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.
Oh, he’s thinking of the children alright.
Abusers isolate their victims to make it harder to leave
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
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.
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.
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
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?
He only wrapped his arm around her and asked where a
hotchild could be found later…She was in no immediate danger. Didnt you hear the school board’s statement?
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
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
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.
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.
Agreed.
This, exactly. I work as a baby seal clubber, and some of my colleagues definitely have questionable motives for doing the job.
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 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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Jokes aside, by logic, isn’t pedophilia a controversial topics in US right now?
