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[–] Bluefalcon@discuss.tchncs.de 34 points 2 hours ago (3 children)

“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?

[–] Jhex@lemmy.world 8 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

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

[–] Bluefalcon@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 hour ago

Heard, one use to be a prince....

[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 10 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

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."

[–] Krauerking@lemy.lol 9 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Bluefalcon@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 hour ago

Priorities, we got'em!

[–] flandish@lemmy.world 57 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

anyone else in that room who did not immediately stand up and drag this douche out by the ear is complicit.

[–] Krauerking@lemy.lol 29 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Krauerking@lemy.lol 3 points 1 hour ago

Yeah, I am just using the word cause the article doesnt bother with it.

[–] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 32 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] Krauerking@lemy.lol 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] mushroommunk@lemmy.today 2 points 1 hour ago

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.

[–] Zahille7@lemmy.world 47 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

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?

[–] Krauerking@lemy.lol 31 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

He only wrapped his arm around her and asked where a ~~hot~~ child could be found later...

She was in no immediate danger. Didnt you hear the school board's statement?

[–] nkat2112@sh.itjust.works 16 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

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!

[–] Krauerking@lemy.lol 8 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

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

[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 hour ago
[–] cannedtuna@lemmy.world 16 points 2 hours ago

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

[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 14 points 2 hours ago

"Controversial Comment"

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[–] Krauerking@lemy.lol 23 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

By the way, he asked her what school she goes to.... As if he doesnt already know.
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[–] papalonian@lemmy.world 5 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

Thankfully, if that hard-to-get little vixen of a teenager lied about what school she goes to, he likely has the resources to look up her school and home address!

[–] Krauerking@lemy.lol 5 points 2 hours ago

I was gonna make a joke back about him bringing her some homework but i think the ick factor dropped it being funny to me again.

Cause i mean... He could. He could look up her address and likely her parents and know when to abuse his position to go to her house or pull her out of class. Its not funny to pretend to not be upset about this is where i am at.

[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

Not "likely", definitely.

And, the "resources" is an email to the school administration. They wouldn't even ask why. They'd just send over her entire file--address, family, friends, grades, classes, teachers, school schedule, after school activities--everything.

[–] silentjohn@lemmy.ml 11 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Ew ew ew ew ew ew ew ew ew ew ew ... goddamn EWWWWWW

[–] Krauerking@lemy.lol 5 points 2 hours ago

Yeah. Sorry. Cause....

EWWWWW

[–] Bot@sub.community 12 points 2 hours ago

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[–] SippyCup@lemmy.world 16 points 2 hours ago

Later, he would be heard to scoff in indignation at the response to his comment saying "what it was a compliment!"

He went on to tell the female reporter to smile more.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

If I had money on where this ended, I'd put it on them abolishing the Student Board Member seat on the grounds that it was too much of a temptation for the rest of the board.

Maybe slide in a rule about students needing to wear full figure coverings to prevent anyone on the board from becoming aroused.

[–] Krauerking@lemy.lol 2 points 1 hour ago

Yikes. Probably, as well, but yikes.

[–] Soulphite@reddthat.com 3 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

See what happens when a nations leaders dont hold anyone in power accountable for their actions? Rampant shit like this goes unchecked and our children are left vulnerable. These people think it's okay to do what they're doing because their leaders do it and its fine.

Fuck the king pedophile and all the pedophile protectors for allowing this shit to happen countless times with little repercussions.

[–] Luminous5481@anarchist.nexus 1 points 1 hour ago

the thing people have been trying to tell liberals for years is that trump didn't start this. people have been doing this for decades. epstein trafficked little girls to the rich elite of this nation long before trump got elected.

this has always been around, it's only now that trump was named in it that liberals are starting to actually care about it all of a sudden.

[–] Krauerking@lemy.lol 2 points 2 hours ago

We got our world of no rules like the libertarians wanted. We dont get cooler phones or something or no taxes. We get people in charge of schools that want to fuck children and can say so openly.

[–] UnpopularCrow@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

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

[–] BigMacHole@thelemmy.club 0 points 1 hour ago

STUPID Libtards! ALL he's doing is Being a Pedophile! That's like THE most Protected thing you can Do in America!

-People who show up Armed to Drag Shows to PROTECT THE CHILDREN TM!

[–] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

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/boardmember gets you a ton of access and assumed innocence.

That does not mean that every person who works in corporate is a sociopath, that wvey 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.

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

He claims to have meant that she was hot as in "on fire" because she was asking a lot of pertinent questions. 🤷‍♂️ Nothing makes sense anymore.

[–] Krauerking@lemy.lol 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

He is just a sapiosexual, and age is just a number, baby.

[–] nimble@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

So i wasn't expecting the student to be sitting up with the rest of the board members. But im guessing that is the student right next to him as he says that and puts his arm around her?

Like what the actual fuck?

[–] Krauerking@lemy.lol 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Yeah, she is doing a study of school boards for class and was allowed to sit in apparently.

[–] nodiratime@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

Now she has some material she really didn't sign up for.