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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
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
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/board member gets you a ton of access and assumed innocence.
That does not mean that every person who works in corporate is a sociopath, that every 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.
The problem is how the institutions deal with it. If they try to cover it up, the whole institution is complicit.
Take the Boy Scouts for example. It's an organization dealing almost exclusively with children, so of course pedophiles will be attracted to it.
Does that mean that all about leaders are pedophiles? Of course not. But the fact that the BSA swept it under the rug to save face means you can't be sure anything will be done if there's one in your troop.
It's in the institutions best interest to cover it up. It is not in their interest to be transparent.
Institutions, made of people, are just like people, in that they pursue their self-interest first and foremost. Morality, the law, and all that is ultimately secondary.
And the self-interest primarily for orgs, like most people, is to protect their image at all costs, including the cost of allowing abusers to continue to be into them, as long as it isn't publicly visible and it's plausibly deniable.
Agreed.
This, exactly. I work as a baby seal clubber, and some of my colleagues definitely have questionable motives for doing the job.
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.
Later he would be heard giving talks about how LGBTQ is detrimental to psychology of minors.
By the way, he asked her what school she goes to.... As if he doesnt already know.
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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!
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.
"Controversial Comment"
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Jokes aside, by logic, isn't pedophilia a controversial topics in US right now?
Mighty Christian
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?
Yeah, she is doing a study of school boards for class and was allowed to sit in apparently.
What the fuck is wrong with this guy
Now she has some material she really didn't sign up for.
During the emergency meeting, the BOE is set to consider and approve a motion to censure Ervin over the comments.
by censure, I hope they mean terminate his employment
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.
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.