‘God, you’re hot’ Tennessee school board member says to student during board meeting
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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.
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.
@Krauerking He probably didn't. The County is over 133,000 people, and has four high schools. She goes to the stupidly named David Crockett HS, which has around 1200 students.
I don't assume he knows much about anything. Plenty of dairy farmers are smart and well informed, but he strikes me as more of an arrogantly ignorant dipshit.
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.
He only wrapped his arm around her and asked where a child could be found later…
She was in no immediate danger. Didnt you hear the school boards 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?
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
Now is the time of monstrous acts
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.
As Antonio Gramsci would put from his prison cell while wondering why Italy became Fascist without people putting up a fight.
History teaches, but it has no pupils
We fell to the same thing, we let the wealthy define our culture. Our culture is now that of being cruel and taking. And people wish to be popular and wealthy more than moral or right. So we shift towards their world and act like them, till we have the cruelty in our own hearts.
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
Yeah. Sorry. Cause…
EWWWWW
“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?
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.
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.”
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
@dylanmorgan A person with your mindset is statistically unlikely to have a child in this particular school system or any like it.
What we're seeing here isn't just one dipshit's skeevy conduct. It's a manifestation of the prevailing local culture of that county.
Not calling for violence
the reason this keeps happening is because people refuse to call for violence against filth like this
What are those more effective ways?
All the ones I can think of that don’t involve violence don’t seem to be working.
Thats because too many people sit on their ass waiting for other people to take care of it for them.
Coincidentally a lot of them are the same ones who call for violent action (and not all of them lean right).
These actions only work if a majority of citizens actually take them, not sit back and complain about how they dont work because things dont magically get fixed the instant a minority of people do it once.
Bingo.
my biggest complaint about the liberal/left is they will do anything but take charge.
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.
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.
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If you want to understand why humanity has not been able to eradicate evil given thousands of years, a sober analysis of your comment will reveal why.
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