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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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[–] NottaLottaOcelot@lemmy.ca 37 points 5 days ago (5 children)

I’m a dentist and we get summaries of the disciplinary actions taken by our board. A few years ago, there was a male dentist who finally lost his licence for grabbing patients’ and staff’s breasts. The summary read that he had been disciplined for this five times already and they were only just waking up to the fact that he should no longer be licensed to practice.

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[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 69 points 5 days ago (38 children)

Willing to put a month's wages down on which party he's affiliated with.

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[–] chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world 193 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (3 children)

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.

[–] luthis@lemmy.nz 52 points 6 days ago (1 children)

The first few lines did have me thinking ' I don't know where you're going with this one bro...'

[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 31 points 6 days ago (2 children)

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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[–] SirEDCaLot@lemmy.today 55 points 5 days ago (4 children)

"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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[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 150 points 6 days ago (14 children)

Good ole boys gonna good ole boy

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[–] BillCheddar@lemmy.world 38 points 5 days ago (2 children)

There's not one man in that entire city who is willing to do thirty days in jail to kick this guy's ass?

Not one bored retiree with honor?

[–] OrteilGenou@lemmy.world 10 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Curious, when's the last time you took a misdemeanor to kick some guy's ass in jail?

[–] BillCheddar@lemmy.world 33 points 5 days ago (1 children)

About ten-eleven years ago, I hit a guy in a grocery store because I saw him bitch-slap his preschool aged daughter who had asked for cheerios.

It was crazy because his wife stepped to me after that. I have never hit a woman, but that mouthy trashmonster was almost my first. I was a lot more naive than I am now, because I honestly thought she'd be appreciative of the fact that the guy bleeding on the floor was no longer assaulting her 3 or 4 year old sweetheart. Instead, she got in my face and started screaming.

I said some choice words that I will not repeat as they were offensive and, at times, misogynistic.

Anyway, I left before any cops got called so I didn't get arrested or face any consequences. Left my cart in the aisle and shopped across town later than night.

Would happily do it again.

[–] vulgarcynic@sh.itjust.works 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Respect. Fuck anyone who says otherwise.

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[–] Rooster326@programming.dev 16 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch? I'll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Navy Seals, and I've been involved in numerous secret raids on Al-Quaeda, and I have over 300 confirmed kills. I am trained in gorilla warfare and I'm the top sniper in the entire US armed forces. You are nothing to me but just another target. I will wipe you the fuck out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit to me over the Internet? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of spies across the USA and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your life. You're fucking dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can kill you in over seven hundred ways, and that's just with my bare hands. Not only am I extensively trained in unarmed combat, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the United States Marine Corps and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of the continent, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little "clever" comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking tongue. But you couldn't, you didn't, and now you're paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will shit fury all over you and you will drown in it. You're fucking dead, kiddo.

[–] AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago

Love that copy pasta lol

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[–] mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 50 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

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

also, bring back punching people in the face in public

[–] KneeTitts@lemmy.world 15 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] Krzd@lemmy.world 12 points 5 days ago (3 children)

I think stoning is too closely associated with Islam/Arabic nations, whipping or nailing to a cross would be more appropriate for the US

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[–] Luminous5481@anarchist.nexus 57 points 6 days ago (42 children)

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.

[–] markko@lemmy.world 19 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Holding people accountable works if they are actually held accountable.

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[–] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 35 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Dude's electronics should have been seized and searched immediately.

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[–] dansemacabreingalone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 33 points 5 days ago (16 children)

Wheres all the 'kill your local pedophile' talk now?

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[–] nothingcorporate@lemmy.today 82 points 6 days ago (1 children)

The bar is so low, yet the US keeps effortlessly limboing under it

[–] Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world 97 points 6 days ago (24 children)

Thank God. I was worried we were going to hold men accountable for once

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[–] alexquiniou@lemmy.zip 31 points 5 days ago

Think about what it's said and done when cameras are off.

[–] brianpeiris@lemmy.ca 25 points 5 days ago

They started the meeting with a prayer about "keeping their minds on the children", followed by the most robotic sounding pledge of allegiance I've ever heard, and then they proceeded to pardon the predator, mostly using religious "grace" as a justification. America!

[–] BigMacHole@thelemmy.club 71 points 6 days ago (2 children)

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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[–] JigglySackles@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago

Just love knowing all those cunts are complicit in the sexual harassment of children. Something that should have a zero tolerance policy.

[–] ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 52 points 6 days ago

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.

[–] PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 32 points 6 days ago (11 children)
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[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 16 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

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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