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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    Lemmy unironically is worse about moderation in literally every way compared to reddit. Calls to violence, obvious propaganda, and bots are all way more rampant. The only reason I use it at all is because it surfaces news articles I’d otherwise never see.

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      Lemmy unironically is worse about moderation in literally every way compared to reddit.

      No! Bad. Bad!!!

      Reddit is bottom-of-the-barrel moderation, away with you

      p.s. what’s wrong with propaganda? I can’t even

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      Honestly, I kinda enjoy the “critical thinking” aspect of it. Knowing full well that I’m going to see more propaganda material, because of less moderation… I get a chance to see obvious social engineering, and I think it helps me to spot it in the wild

      It kinda forces me to form my own opinions, if that makes sense? There’s so many hardline opinions around here, that it helps me to see the extremes. Idk, I often find it engaging

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        It is an eye-opening experience, for sure. But the most important thing to keep in mind is “You Are Not Immune To Propaganda.” There is an entire category of propaganda engineered to be seen just because it pushes people in the opposite direction. Nations like Russia deliberately support every potential “direction” of radicalization for the sole and specific purpose of fragmentation. Or, in the words of Abraham Lincoln: “A house divided against itself cannot stand.”

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          You’re absolutely correct. I usually try to ground myself in “love not anger” type thing, but I know I’m not special and will still fall victim to propaganda. So I try to keep an open mind, and just learn while checking my bias as much as I can. It’s not perfect by any means, but like a muscle that has to be exercised

          The most powerful groups are united, and I’d love to see a day where that united group is simply “human”. A hopeless optimist I guess

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      justastranger-- so it seems like your options are to file a lawsuit and get it taken care of, or take your crybaby whining elsewhere. Free speech rules apply here and those are legally gated by incitement tests you can read about and act upon as needed. Its all laid out for you, so go take care of it and let us know how it goes. And thanks for standing up for this poor poor school board member.

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        How cute, a strawman. So which are you?

        e: either a bot or psychotic, their comment history doesn’t make a lick of sense

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          Their comment to you doesn’t even make sense. It’s literally just inciteful nonsense, as if they’re responding to the wrong person… except they specifically mentioned you. What the fuck ever lol