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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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[–] Mniot@programming.dev 1 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

"Exactly as horrible" is unfair to you. But it sounds like you're advocating to give up on rule of law and just have the strongest most violent people be the ones to decide what's right. And I'd argue that you'd just get back to where we are right now: wealthy people would control the system, they'd employ strong violent people to enforce their personal whims as "law", and you'd be complaining that nobody is willing to beat up the pedophile (because his friends would hire goons to kill them).

I mean, presumably that's what's stopping you personally from implementing your own recommendation, right? Because if you showed up and kicked this guy's ass you'd be beaten and arrested by the police.

[–] Luminous5481@anarchist.nexus 4 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

wealthy people would control the system

oh no, I'm a leftist. the plan is to murder the rich people. then they can't do anything to stop you. I'm a big fan of a firing squad, but one of the other AN admins suggested slow roasting over a fire. I'm also partial to putting them on wooden stakes like Vlad the Impaler, but we can figure it out as as we purge them, I suppose. maybe a little bit of everything?

[–] Mniot@programming.dev 1 points 5 hours ago

Oh OK. Murdering rich people might effect social change. Though I'm skeptical because not a lot of people actually do it, which is an important component of that change.

I think you still end up coming around in a circle: in your fantasy of mob-justice, what prevents the wealthy from ending up being the ones who control it? (Like Vlad the Impaler!)