817
"God, you're hot" school board member Keith Ervin not removed from school board. (www.youtube.com)
submitted 5 months ago by to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world
213 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

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.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] 55 points 5 months 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.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • hideshow 4 child comments
    •
  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago (3 children)

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

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 3 child comments
    •
  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    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.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
    •
  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    After WWII a cabal of rich elites started plotting to undo everything FDRs New Deal had done.

    The citizenry aren't blameless but it's important to understand why we're in this spot.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent