Half the school board thinks Keith deserves a third chance (that’s right, not his first time making inappropriate comments to a child).
They say only he can decide if he wants to step down. They did vote in favor of censuring him. The rest of the school board members that laughed during the comment and touching of a child faced no repercussion. Some even pretended to be offended during the emergency hearing.
Good ole boys gonna good ole boy
It’s likely they see it as one harmless comment and not the pattern and culture that it is.
Maybe I’m being unfair to someone out there, but I kinda like the term “rednecks.”
“Redneck” implies working class (because it’s traditionally caused by getting sunburned from working out in a field) in a way that “good ol’ boy” does not.
The idea of a redneck community leader is an oxymoron.
I always thought of the striking West Virginia coal miners as rednecks, and some of them were community leaders. But times and terms change.
I’d say the term has undergone what happens with many other definitions over the years, i.e. it’s shifted somewhat in meaning. More than just being about an outdoor worker, I think it implies a certain type of conduct and attitude.
And I absolutely meant it as a slander to those ‘community leaders,’ as explained earlier.
Redneck is something else
This is literally a Good Ole Boy network at work. It looks like he’s a dairy farmer, though how much actual labor he does is anyone’s guess. He may also be a redneck, but he’s a good ole boy, and this is what that looks like when that system is working.
Yeap, good points.
Good ole boys are the political in group in small towns. Generally they have good jobs and are seen by locals as community leaders of some sort. Rednecks are basically anyone who enjoys things typically associated with rural living. Anyone can be a redneck and there are plenty of rednecks in jail for way less serious things than child abuse.
TBH, there’s an intentional slander element I’m going for.
The idea being that such ‘community leaders’ are little more than rednecks to me, at the end of the day. And I’m not sure I agree about the ‘rural living’ definition. Nothing wrong with rural life IMO, but rednecks are moreso representative to me of toxic actors amongst such folks.
Jeff Foxworthy’s entire oeuvre in shambles.
Btw, that’s a great, but hard word to learn in French. Took me like 10x to pronounce it correctly, so I might just be a…