Let me guess.
Evangelical MAGA Republican?
“I’m so surprised,” said no one ever.
“Where do you go to school at?” Poor grammar too. Unacceptable behavior for any school administration. Out with him.
Out with him.
Bad news
This is why local elections matter people!
How would you know he was a creep based on his campaign alone?
Republican
Fair enough
“Are you from Tennessee? 'Cause you’re like… really hot.”
Someone should take one for the team and run for school board member, just to replace that creep. Seriously!
School board member is actually a really powerful position. They usually control the majority of a towns budget and are often the first stepping stone into politics.
How about Dog Walker?
I’ve been to Tennessee, the most churches I’ve ever seen, seemed to be one on every block. Checks out.
In america, if you are in any sort of position of power you’re not really ‘cool’ unless you travel with the trump/epstein crowd.
lol wtf
oh yeah, this is America
To be fair, this is what I expected from Tennessee. I’m not shocked.
“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
If my kid was speaking in front of the school board and subjected to that kind of harassment I’d be in jail right now.
Heard, one use to be a prince…
yeap… green prince instead of blue
🔫always have been
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.
That wouldn’t be scapegoating? He did actually commit the offense. It’s punishment.
Scapegoating does not require the scapegoat to be innocent of the thing they are rendered a scapegoat of. When a bunch of kids smash decorative plates and they all say afterward that only one of them did it, that one kid is a scapegoat even if that kid did smash some plates, or even the most plates.
And yes, punishment usually is scapegoating. “The offense” is some narrow, visible, and clearly defined thing that makes someone the convenient target to pin all the blame on, regardless of who was responsible for everything leading up to it.
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
Just so we are clear, tarring and feathering is an extremely violent act. I’m not arguing against it, but covering someone in molten tar is not non-violent in the slightest. I’m personally all for it.
Is chemical castration, violence? I suppose it is. I would imagine the tech isn’t available to the general public anyway.
It’s also proved to be ineffective. Chemically castrated rapists rape again, they just use other stuff.
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?”
Sir…I need to see your search history.
We need a really big pit
Not really, six feet will do.
Does this girl not have a dad? If some man said that to my daughter I’d catch a charge wtf dude
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.
The student was a member of the board. That’s why they were up there next to the creep.
Students are not members of the school board. It’s an elected position that adults hold.
Read the article.
One of our colleagues, Keith Ervin, made a grossly inappropriate comment toward our student Board member.
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People also laugh when they are uncomfortable and don’t know what else to do. Obviously we’d rather see objections than nervous tittering, but I wouldn’t always take laughter as active complicity / celebration.
I was being over the top with the complicity mostly out if anger at the situation. I understand that people respond poorly in stressful situations but we need to start getting better at it.
This was a time I think it mattered to speak up.
Yeah I agree with all of that. Part of what was in my mind is that I would perceive a man laughing as very different than a woman laughing. I assume that all women live under potential sexual threat from men at all times, and laughing at an advance is a way to defuse it without getting confrontational. “Haha surely you jest” is actually a deflection, even if it isn’t a head on confrontation. I’m a man and I don’t fear direct confrontations, but I understand women don’t have the same privilege as I do in this regard.
Watch the far right rally around this.
I’m sure you are correct, but is there a non-far right anymore?
In the US? That’d be the Democrats.
Democrats are right-wing in the rest of the sane world, try again.
Try what again? That’s exactly what I said!
Thank you for identifying yourself
Huh?
Neoliberals?
Gotta test that purity. What else would I have to do if I didn’t!?
I’m confused. Calling neolibs centre-right is leftist gatekeeping?
Purity testing is a good thing, quality control is as important for political movements as it is for food
I’m sure it’s theoretically possible to not want to pay your fair share of taxes, while not dunking on any particular minority.
It’s rare though.
It’s always just selfishness with conservatives. It’s not complicated, they’re just selfish assholes through and through. If you wanna know what a conservative will do, just imagine the most selfish move and voila.
Children starving or an extra $50 in property taxes, guess what the conservative picks every single time!
Generally not believing in human rights comes as a package deal.
It’s surprising how quickly they come as well.
I’ve seen perfectly normal people go from “I felt a bit ill after that COVID vaccination, I’ll look it up online” to spreading fake stories about immigrants and having opinions about Hunter Biden. Within months. They’re not even American.
This shit’s a fucking virus, and social media is the vector.
Yeah, they are the ones doing the “No Kings” thoughts & prayers parades
I don’t know how you people don’t get tired of the same boring ass gotchas every day. We get it. You hate everyone who doesn’t have your exact political beliefs.
Anyone who gives a shit that you despise anyone to the right of you is not someone whose opinion I give a flying fuck about.
You care so little that you can’t help but announce it, even
Yes I respond to every 75th message so clearly you GOT ME again. What a genius.
👍 cool. Enjoy continuing to be part of the problem.
You’re helping so much by going around trolling people and doing jackshit else. Thanks a lot FrObOzX.
when you are that far right you are in Far Reich terroritory
The people you disagree with are far right… or far left, depending upon your political orientation.
No. I disagree with you, and you’re just an idiot.
What do you disagree with?
You said one thing. Put on your thinking cap, I’m sure even you can figure that one out.
I don’t get the hostility. It seemed like a pretty uncontroversial observation to me. Nobody complains about “the left”, they complain about “the far left”; nobody complains about “the right”, they complain about “the far right”. Anybody with two brain cells to rub together can observe this.
I have no idea why this would upset anybody, but it seems like I’ve triggered some people. Unless you’re just bots, in which case: deuces.
Disinformation actors and tankies complain about the left all the time
If you want a genuine answer, people are upset because you’re expressing a centrist opinion. Centrism more or less advocates for maintaining the status quo. The status quo sucks for most people.
You’re also equating the far left with the far right. To understand why this is upsetting, we can look at some basic definitions. If someone is on the Left, they are generally in favor of more equality, while those on the right want more hierarchy. Equality and hierarchy are opposites. You can see this in a more concrete way by comparing the goals of far-left organizations to the goals of far-right ones.
I think a lot of the confusion comes from the Cold War. Countries like the USSR and China would claim to have far-left intentions while acting in right-wing ways. You cannot achieve left-wing goals through right-wing action.
Even the term “Communist country” is an oxymoron, because Communism advocates for a stateless society, and governments never voluntarily give up power.
"He tells it like it is! "
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?
Adult: ‘What school do you go to?’ -child answers adult- Adult: ‘Allllriiiiiiiiiiiiiight!!!’
The lean in…gross. All of it, disgusting and completely unacceptable. I feel sorry for that child, and can’t believe not a single board member stood up and called it for what it was and immediately stopped the proceedings. That was my first instinct imagining myself there. Full fucking stop, protect that child and bring that nasty man to account.
Are people in such a true state of psychosis these days that we just ‘heh heh this is fine’ fucking everything now?
We only interact with things that make us happy or joy.
I wouldnt feel joy calling out his behavior so I don’t.
Tennessee not exactly known for being civilized and Trump won Washington County by 39 points over Harris in 2024. These people are exactly who’d you expect in Appalachia.
