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.
The first violence is that they arrest parents for child abuse if they don’t send their children to attend a school with a pedophile on the board.
The second violence is a parent grounding their child unless they attend a school run by pedophiles.
The third violence is that they arrest people if they don’t pay taxes to fund the wages of a pedophile in a position of power over children.
The fourth violence is someone paying money to put a pedophile in charge of children.
The fifth violence is a child getting sexually assaulted because the perpetrator knows they can get away with it.
The sixth violence is an adult telling a sexually assaulted child to go back to school because they don’t have proof.
A peaceful world does not look like the present day. A peaceful world is anarchy, where nobody is required to support a pedophile school board member unless they want to.
What you are asking for isn’t peace, it is submission to the status quo and the forces with a monopoly on violence that maintain it even if they are unjust.
If you want peace, prepare for war. Because a lot of people are going to be violent towards you the moment you stop supporting their violence.