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"God, you're hot" school board member Keith Ervin not removed from school board. (www.youtube.com)

submitted 1 day ago by UnpopularCrow@lemmy.world to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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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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[–] JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

TBH, there's an intentional slander element I'm going for.

The idea being that such 'community leaders' are little more than rednecks to me, at the end of the day. And I'm not sure I agree about the 'rural living' definition. Nothing wrong with rural life IMO, but rednecks are moreso representative to me of toxic actors amongst such folks.

[–] moakley@lemmy.world 1 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Jeff Foxworthy's entire oeuvre in shambles.

[–] JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social 2 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

oeuvre

Btw, that's a great, but hard word to learn in French. Took me like 10x to pronounce it correctly, so I might just be a...