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.

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    “The standard you walk past, is the standard you accept.” --Lt. Gen. David Morrison, former head of Australian Army.

    Amusingly he was talking about a situation where male soldiers were sexually assaulting female soldiers, while a larger group of servicemembers knew this was happening but did nothing to stop or report or prevent it.

    He’s 100% right though. The standard this school board walks past, and thus the standard they accept, is one of their own sexually harassing a teenage girl.

    Every one of them that laughed or snickered or whatever should be removed.

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    why would he be removed? he goes to church on Sunday.

    also, bring back punching people in the face in public

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      I seriously wonder how far away the US is from stoning women and girls to death for not being virgins…

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    Somebody immediately blocked me yesterday, despite me never speaking to them or having seen them before, because I said we needed to start using violence against people who do this shit. It’s the only way to stop it, because clearly holding them accountable doesn’t work in the US. If it did, we wouldn’t have a pedophile for a president.

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      Whatever you say, Batman. Are you the one who’s going to deliver the punch?

      Plenty of other countries have more vigilante justice and still have corrupt leaders, so clearly that doesn’t work either. Maybe instead work to make your government better. In a democracy, it represents the will of the people.

      • Piefed, which I use, has actual blocking, unlike Lemmy. You cannot reply to someone that has blocked you on Piefed, the option is greyed out and you are given an error that says “you are blocked by this person” if you try. if that person is a mod, you also cannot post to any of their comms, if I remember correctly.

        also, they said they were going to block me.

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          These are the same people who see rape and murder as the same levelof sin as being gay. I was raised around that type of bs.

          “i dont hate you for being gay, its just your burden. Like johnny is pedo, and pam is a murderer, and frank is a thief. We’re all sinners and its not our place to judge”

          i wish i was kidding…

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          “Exactly as horrible” is unfair to you. But it sounds like you’re advocating to give up on rule of law and just have the strongest most violent people be the ones to decide what’s right. And I’d argue that you’d just get back to where we are right now: wealthy people would control the system, they’d employ strong violent people to enforce their personal whims as “law”, and you’d be complaining that nobody is willing to beat up the pedophile (because his friends would hire goons to kill them).

          I mean, presumably that’s what’s stopping you personally from implementing your own recommendation, right? Because if you showed up and kicked this guy’s ass you’d be beaten and arrested by the police.

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          Idk why punching people in the US is treated exactly as bad as shooting people but its stupid to think a bloody lip is the same as like a bullet hole.

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            Idk, but somebody who does shit like he did definitely deserves a few guys taking them out back behind the building to give them a real good beating.

            If saying that makes me “exactly as bad” as them then so be it, I’ll be the bad guy and take one for the team. 💪

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      Holding people accountable works if they are actually held accountable.

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    Oh weird, so strange and not usual at all that the ones not calling for his resignation invoke Christian values and Jeebus (and literally comparing him to the pedo in chief). Unfortunately with world events being what they are I’m sure this’ll be forgotten within a day or two. Apparently we can only wait for this guy’s name to pop up in the paper in a few years for having raped a bunch of pre teens.

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    Yeah, but… think about it. We haven’t seen the girl. What if she was, like, REALLY hot? A complete fucking smoke show. 10/10. One of the ones you might sneak into a dressing room at beauty pageant to see. Or maybe even hop on a private plane to meet on some luxurious island. Or even carry across state lines. I don’t think we should pass judgement on this man until we determine if he was a pedophile, a pedophile, or a pedophile.

    Edit: Also, if reading the first few lines of this post made your stomach twist a little, then you are one of the good ones. Keep it up. The world needs more of you and less of this douche nozzle.

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        You act like you’ve never stared at a teenager’s ass. I used to spend hours doing it. Hell, I think some of them even liked when I looked at them. Mind you, this was way back when I was a teenager. I couldn’t help but double up the joke, but worse.

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            No, that was me. Send me pictures of your penis with your driver’s license, bank account info, and birth certificate properly framed and in focus. This is my kink and will make me do a good sex fr fr no cap lit fam.

            6 7,
            TheFartographer: a sexy person of your desired age and gender

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    Why are you Libtards up in Arms about THIS? Being a Pedophile is as American as Apple Pie!

    -Republicans who show up ARMED to Children’s Hospitals to PROTECT THE CHILDREN TM!

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      Sadly, as much as it’s a joke in this commentary, it is.

      We went from Lawrence King and his ring in the 80’s and early 90’s to Epstein in the 90’s and 00’s, and both were publicly and evidently connected to the highest levels of the US government. King’s ring also had mysterious deaths, including the lead investigator and his son being killed in a plane crash.

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      It’s likely they see it as one harmless comment and not the pattern and culture that it is.

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        “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.

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          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.

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        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.

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        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.

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          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.

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      Hi, man here. I just wanted to say that not all men are like this. But also as a man, I’d like to say there are too many men that ARE like this.

      And just so everybody is clear, “too many” is any number above zero.

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      Yep, men always get away with it, that’s why they closed all the male jails

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        What if I told you politically connected men get to sexually harass and abuse at will while marginalized men get imprisoned over weed?

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          well, you’re saying men aren’t held accountable. That explains why the jails that held men in prison for committing crimes all closed down, because the men are not held accountable.

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            Talk to some women about their experiences with men doing creepy shit and facing no consequences. I bet you every single woman in your life will have stories

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              wow, very impressive. But men are held accountable, but certain people abuse their social standing. I’m amazed at the tru fax you are spittin’

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                And yet you’re complaining in another thread that Trump isn’t being held accountable for his actions (which I agree with, he should be in prison). You’re inconsistent and hypocritical.

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    No it’s okay everyone, because that one school board guy is going to pray about it, and that’ll fix everything! /s

    What a fucking joke. This is the third time the guy has done this. He, and the entire board, should be fired.

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    lol throwing the christian mea culpa just makes it worse… I guess if your president can be a child rapist and traficker, this garbage school board member has nothing to fear