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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 19 points 7 hours ago (1 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.

[–] BygoneNeutrino@lemmy.world -4 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Personally, I'd let my dentist grope me if he had a high enough success rate. I did some research a while ago, and a dentist whose work consistently fails will probably never lose his license. The patient won't be able to successfully sue them and there probably won't be an investigation. It's a "buyer beware" scenario.

[–] BillCheddar@lemmy.world 30 points 18 hours 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?

[–] j_elgato@leminal.space 7 points 16 hours ago

Tennessee...

[–] OrteilGenou@lemmy.world 5 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] Rooster326@programming.dev 6 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 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 2 points 2 hours ago

Love that copy pasta lol

[–] BillCheddar@lemmy.world 24 points 16 hours 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 6 points 6 hours ago

Respect. Fuck anyone who says otherwise.

[–] dansemacabreingalone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] MrShankles@reddthat.com -2 points 1 hour ago

Are you making a call for action while sitting behind a keyboard? Are you asking for help with your own "extrajudicial plans", or are you simply "asking questions"? What's the point of your comment?

Fuck pedophiles and all, but what the shit are you doing about it, that you're just gonna call out into the void with "tough speak", asking why nobody's killing people?

Why are violent-instagations often coming from like day old accounts? It's like someone wants to stoke radicalization through violent rhetoric

[–] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 28 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] MrShankles@reddthat.com 1 points 1 hour ago

Absofuckinglutely

[–] brianpeiris@lemmy.ca 20 points 18 hours 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!

[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 64 points 23 hours ago (22 children)

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

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[–] SirEDCaLot@lemmy.today 53 points 23 hours ago (1 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.

[–] Hylactor@sopuli.xyz 5 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

We've been "walking past" this since at least 1961. Americans excell at ignoring our check engine lights.

[–] SirEDCaLot@lemmy.today 2 points 3 hours ago

We've been walking past an awful lot for very long. We got comfortable. We got lazy. The Framers set up a pretty good system for us and after WWII and Vietnam and the civil rights movement, we basically all decided that we had fixed our society and government and we could sit back and crack open a cold one.

[–] OrteilGenou@lemmy.world 4 points 16 hours ago

You had genocide and slavery sitting right there and you went with economics for your dashboard analogy, a bold choice.

[–] alexquiniou@lemmy.zip 29 points 21 hours ago

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

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

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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[–] Luminous5481@anarchist.nexus 54 points 1 day ago (41 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.

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