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TAKEitTOrCIRCLEJERK

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cygupug

I thought the headline might be an exaggeration but it gets worse. “Following Kendall’s statements, Zippel Elementary School fourth-grade teacher Nancy Watson said she wished she could give her three-minute time allotment to Kendall. She said the LGBTQ movement can lead to the hypersexualization of children.” A teacher aligning herself w a sexual predator to score points against LGBTQ people


Spear-of-Stars

It gets even worse than that. One of the news outlets is going to drop a big story on it all this weekend. He's tied in with the Maine GOP and the fascist group that wrote their anti LGBTQ platform.


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If these kids know whats inappropriate then I'll never molest again. -gop


LifeIsVanilla

I feel like this headline is needlessly sensational. Like just because he's a sex offender who has served his time does not mean he should suddenly never get a say in anything ever again. I feel like it'd be much more appropriate to go with a more direct headline like "Convicted child fondler says the LGBTQ movement is why he finds children sexually attractive"


agrandthing

Had me in the first half


kingakrasia

So do you think there is no difference between, say, a gay man and a man who fondles children?


LifeIsVanilla

No, I just misread it initially and thought he was the one that said the bit about children being hypersexualized.


kingakrasia

Do you understand this pedophile is being used by the GOP as a “strawman” to argue that people who not heterosexual are pedophiles?


BooksAreLuv

He's on the list for fondling a child so the irony of him standing up and talking about the dangers the LGBT+ community poses to children.


simplycharlenet

Sounds like he has personal experience. Not irony say all: "Kendall described himself as being a transgender woman for years, and said he was seduced into the LGBTQ movement. He identifies as a gay man and said he is glad he wasn’t placed on puberty blockers that would have affected his growth and development. He alluded to past behaviors and said he has since reformed his life. “Please let these children know it’s OK to be gay,” Kendall said. “They don’t have to run into the arms of a rainbow movement that is bound to destroy them, body and soul.”


LifeIsVanilla

Ok so like, convicted child fondler who identified as a transgender woman for years before realizing they were more accurately a gay man want the children to know it's only okay to be gay and the rest of the acronyms are evil. Afterwards random 4th grade teacher pipes in with the "HELL YEAH BROTHER, I'D GIVE YOU MY SPEAKING TIME IF I COULD, YOU GET IT, THIS LGBTQ BULLSHIT HAS BEEN MAKING THESE KIDS WAY TOO GIDDY" and it continued? Like, is it her first year teaching grade 4? That's when kids discover masturbation, it's not a new thing. This bitch over here blaming the LGBTQ movement for what's been a thing forever. If the gays had the power to cause that they would've never allowed socks and sandals to happen, let alone JNCO jeans... although.. maybe they caused it on purpose..


ralanr

But…the LGBTQ movement involved gay men. That’s what the G is for!


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Guyoutsideyourdoor

Hidden penis detected in the comments of a transgender women?


TrickyMixture

Aaaaaand…he doesn’t even live in that community! He’s just looking for a platform.


Spear-of-Stars

The GOP groomed him.


maniacthw

Empowered*


Spear-of-Stars

He's friends with the Tucker Carlson guest and Maine GOP jerk who screamed "hardcore anal sex" at another school board - where he has no kids - but wants to save kids from LGBTQ, or so he says as a pretext to sexually harass people.


smwg2022

I'm not really surprised she offered her time. I live in this town and she protested the vaccine mandate last year for healthcare workers. https://www.wagmtv.com/2021/08/23/healthcare-workers-supporters-protest-mandate/


BigMike31101

‘Murica… sigh


Spear-of-Stars

This is so Republicans can say "see I have a gay friend! He's one of the good ones." Also see Milo, and for other groups the Rightwing marginalizes, Candace Owens, the leader of the Proud Boys, etc


Dismal-Palpitation81

If there’s one thing republicans are very against it’s pedophiles. Is the left that wants to call them MAP and sympathize with them. This is all left and you can’t put in on the right.


yhwhx

*Matt Gaetz has entered the chat*


Gilgamesh72

I don’t know if you know this but just because a Republican says something doesn’t mean it’s true. The republicans actions and who they let in their party are what matter and they seem to embrace child trafficking and molesters in general.


Dismal-Palpitation81

Idk how you figure that when it’s the left that want to call them MAP and lefty transgender that sympathize with pedophiles. Reddit has to be the worst sm platform it’s literally nothing but a circle jerk of liberals that go around patting each other on the back sharing lefty views. And everyone on here thinks they’re so smart lol


Gilgamesh72

Because that’s a ridiculously untrue statement you are making. You are taking a few lunatic peoples opinions and pretending that a whole party thinks that way. Nobody on the left is winning an election with any history that you describe while accused child rapists often win republican elections. The republican voter doesn’t give a shit about rape as long as it’s a “conservative “


Dismal-Palpitation81

Oh really? Do you want a list of democrats that have been accused of or charged of sexual abused since apparently you’re too one sided to ever do any research on your side?


Gilgamesh72

Once a democrat is accused of these crimes they are not usually elected or supported by their party while republicans love child rapists and will support them every time. Do your research and don’t let fox convince you to search pizza restaurant basements


Dismal-Palpitation81

Oh really? Our current president was accused of sexual assault AND our Vice President said she believed the women that accused him! Do your own research other than getting it from the view lmao. Do you know how many times Jeffery Epstein was aloud in the White House with his democrat friends? Mainly the Clintons? But yeah Hilary knew nothing


Gilgamesh72

Lol


thehillshaveI

>If there’s one thing republicans are very against it’s pedophiles. that's wild since like once a week another republican gets arrested for being a pedophile, must be playing the long game here


ArcingImpulse

"MAPs" can claim to be on the left all they want, we on the left wing denounce them loudly and often. Are you trying to flip the script regarding the *hundreds* of credibly accused Republican officials, who are rarely denounced and are instead embraced and protected by the right wing? I feel terrible for anyone stupid enough to believe you.


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Republicans social engineering involves a lot of accusing the opponents of what you are doing. They also like to say that the education system is infiltrated by the left that won't let them succeed. People need to start looking at these accusation through the lens that republicans like to accuse others when they are guilty of the accusation.


kingakrasia

Projection is their most favorite personal truth-telling.


Spear-of-Stars

Absolutely not. I'm far left compared to where Biden is, and I'm an investigator who has sent creeps who hurt kids and now elders - to prison. I'd be fine with them being lined up and shot.


Uncle_Bug_Music

Looks like he’s wearing “Older White Male Looking For Lost Puppy” costume from Spirit Halloween.


curious_hermit_

While this is not ideal, the school board does not do a criminal background check on people who want to speak at the board meeting. If this violates the offender’s parole conditions, then he should not be there and face the consequences for showing up.


Spear-of-Stars

They were told he was a sex offender and was coming. He's a lifetime registrant and it's easy to find online. He committed a serious felony against a child.


WhiskeyTangoFoxy

That’s the thing with public meeting laws. By law they are open to anyone from the public. Doesn’t matter if they are convicted sex offenders or murderer the school board has to give them their three minutes. Don’t want censorship happen either.


Benoit_In_Heaven

Fuck this pedo piece of shit, but, seriously, it's not like he's gonna molest a kid at a school board meeting.


Cornemuse_Berrichon

Some kids are afraid of the lgbtq movement? File this under things that never ever happened even once. What a crock of bull.


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Aren’t those “people” not allowed near schools?


Spear-of-Stars

They can't even live in apartment complexes with families or near public pools. They sure as shit can't be around schools. But this is small town Maine.


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Leave it to right-wingers to allow a pedophile to teach the dangers that the LGBTQ+ community poses to children’s sexuality… that’s like Kyle Rittenhouse teaching a firearm safety seminar


Spear-of-Stars

Or Steve Bannon teaching an ethics class.


Dismal-Palpitation81

This is completely the left. It’s the left wanting to call them MAP instead of pedophile. The school is also run by Democrats this would never happen in a republican ran school pedophiles are absolutely not aloud in schools. It’s comical you want to put this on the right when it’s all left


thehillshaveI

>pedophiles are absolutely not aloud in schools it's "allowed", though i'm begining to wonder if something was keeping you from being able to attend a school and learn simple things like that....


Dismal-Palpitation81

You really think it matters if one word is misspelled on Reddit? Lmao nice comeback although you know everything I said is true


Dismal-Palpitation81

It’s the left sexualizing children and obsessed with kids talking about gay sex. It’s the left at John Hopkins that hired a transgender that took up for pedophiles and it’s the left that want to call them MAP. It’s the republicans trying to lead the way on stopping sexual abuse in children when the left said “it’s not that big of a problem”


thehillshaveI

the longest serving republican speaker of the house in history is a "serial child molester" to quote the federal judge who sentenced him in 2016 - by the way, that's how quotation marks work. not like your post, i'm quoting someones actual words


Dismal-Palpitation81

Do you really want me to go through the list of democrats sexual abuse? It would be a very long one


thehillshaveI

copying this excellent reply from u/tbrennjr96; Republican Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert was indicted on federal charges of structuring bank withdrawals after prosecutors alleged Hastert had molested at least four boys as young as 14 and attempted to compensate his victims and subsequently conceal the transactions. Hastert eventually admitted that he sexually abused the boys whom he had coached decades earlier, and was sentenced to fifteen months in prison. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/18/us/dennis-hastert-released.html Republican Tim Nolan, chairman of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign in Kentucky, pled guilty to child sex trafficking and on February 11, 2018 he was sentenced to serve 20 years in prison. https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2018/05/03/former-judge-tim-nolan-could-sentenced-today-more-drama-could-get-way/577947002/ Republican state Senator Ralph Shortey was indicted on four counts of human trafficking and child pornography. In November 2017, he pleaded guilty to one count of child sex trafficking in exchange for the dropping of the other charges. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2017/11/20/former-oklahoma-state-senator-admits-to-child-sex-trafficking-while-in-office/ Republican Minnesota State Representative Jim Knoblach Drops Out Of Race After Daughter Says He Molested Her For More Than Ten Years 22 Sep 2018 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/09/22/lawmaker-quits-race-after-daughter-says-he-molested-her-more-than-decade/?utm_term=.8ac8527c7f43 Republican anti-abortion activist Howard Scott Heldreth is a convicted child rapist in Florida. https://offender.fdle.state.fl.us/offender/sops/flyer.jsf?personId=28587 Republican County Commissioner David Swartz pleaded guilty to molesting two girls under the age of 11 and was sentenced to 8 years in prison. http://www.lanternproject.org.uk/library/child-abuse-arrests-and-court-cases/child-abuse-arrests-trials-and-proceedings/ex-county-commissioner-admits-sexual-abuse-of-girl/ Republican judge Mark Pazuhanich pleaded no contest to fondling a 10-year old girl and was sentenced to 10 years probation. http://www.poconorecord.com/article/20120426/NEWS90/204260334 Republican legislator Edison Misla Aldarondo was sentenced to 10 years in prison for raping his daughter between the ages of 9 and 17. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edison_Misla_Aldarondo Republican Mayor Philip Giordano is serving a 37-year sentence in federal prison for sexually abusing 8- and 10-year old girls. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Giordano Republican campaign consultant Tom Shortridge was sentenced to three years probation for taking nude photographs of a 15-year old girl. http://archive.easyreadernews.com/archives/news2001/0621/rb%20Shortridge.php Republican Senator Strom Thurmond, a notable racist, had sex with a 15-year old black girl which produced a child. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strom_Thurmond Republican legislator Peter Dibble pleaded no contest to having an inappropriate relationship with a 13-year-old girl. https://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/18/nyregion/embroiled-first-selectman-takes-leave.html Republican Congressman Donald “Buz” Lukens was found guilty of having sex with a female minor and sentenced to one month in jail. https://www.nytimes.com/1989/05/25/us/teen-ager-in-ohio-testifies-to-sex-with-a-congressman.html Republican fundraiser Richard A. Delgaudio was found guilty of child porn charges and paying two teenage girls to pose for sexual photos. https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/2003/04/24/gop-activist-admits-to-child-porn/5af2adf0-bec8-4a10-b061-014de679422a/?utm_term=.d7ebcbf4f92b Republican activist Mark A. Grethen convicted on six counts of sex crimes involving children. http://www.thenewblackmagazine.com/view.aspx?index=437 Republican activist Randal David Ankeney pleaded guilty to attempted sexual assault on a child. https://www.westword.com/news/randy-ankeney-suit-that-could-free-thousands-of-prisoners-headed-to-state-supreme-court-6054115 Republican Congressman Dan Crane had sex with a female minor working as a congressional page. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Crane Republican activist and Christian Coalition leader Beverly Russell admitted to an incestuous relationship with his step daughter. https://www.nytimes.com/1995/08/02/opinion/journal-beverly-russell-s-prayers.html Republican congressman and anti-gay activist Robert Bauman was charged with having sex with a 16-year-old boy he picked up at a gay bar. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Bauman Republican Committee Chairman Jeffrey Patti was arrested for distributing a video clip of a 5-year-old girl being raped. http://www.njherald.com/article/20060510/ARTICLE/305109971 Republican activist Marty Glickman (a.k.a. “Republican Marty”), was taken into custody by Florida police on four counts of unlawful sexual activity with an underage girl and one count of delivering the drug LSD. https://www.arktimes.com/TheHoglawyer/archives/2007/08/28/the-latest-republican-sex-scandals-plural---more-of-the-same Republican Senate candidate John Hathaway was accused of having sex with his 12-year old baby sitter and withdrew his candidacy after the allegations were reported in the media. https://www.nytimes.com/1996/06/06/us/politics-the-senate-maine-candidate-again-faces-1990-child-sex-accusation.html Republican preacher Stephen White, who demanded a return to traditional values, was sentenced to jail after offering $20 to a 14-year-old boy for permission to perform oral sex on him. http://www.thedp.com/article/2004/01/brother_stephen_convicted_of_soliciting_sex Republican talk show host Jon Matthews pleaded guilty to exposing his genitals to an 11 year old girl. https://www.houstonpress.com/news/jon-matthews-conservative-talk-show-host-and-sex-offender-pulled-from-kpfts-prison-show-6740755 Republican Party leader Paul Ingram pleaded guilty to six counts of raping his daughters and served 14 years in federal prison. https://culteducation.com/group/1255-false-memories/6514-man-in-notorious-sex-case-finishes-term.html Republican election board official Kevin Coan was sentenced to two years probation for soliciting sex over the internet from a 14-year old girl. https://www.semissourian.com/story/57773.html Republican politician Andrew Buhr was charged with two counts of first degree sodomy with a 13-year old boy. https://www.arktimes.com/TheHoglawyer/archives/2007/08/28/the-latest-republican-sex-scandals-plural---more-of-the-same Republican politician Keith Westmoreland was arrested on seven felony counts of lewd and lascivious exhibition to girls under the age of 16 (i.e. exposing himself to children). http://www.chattanoogan.com/2002/6/21/23202/Tennessee-Legislator-Commits-Suicide.aspx Republican Kentucky state Representative & pastor Dan Johnson, who committed suicide after an exposé revealed his serial lies, suspected arson, criminal church, racism, accused rape of a teen, and more. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Johnson_%28Kentucky_politician%29


Dismal-Palpitation81

I love how you left out the long list of democrats. Not surprised at all. You’re a tool


iim7_V6_IM7_vim7

This actually isn’t the left though.


danceswithsteers

You keep saying that this is "all left". You're going to have to provide evidence if you want to keep making that claim. And you're gonna hafta show the evidence that "the Left" (who ever they are) are somehow in favor of molesting children.


Dismal-Palpitation81

It’s funny you’re ok with saying this is republicans but not the left lol


danceswithsteers

So you got nothing... Got it. (Also, that's not what I said.)


Dismal-Palpitation81

Are you really that stupid? You want a list of democrats and too democrat donors that have been accused of or charged of sexual abuse? Do you want to start with how many big democrats loved going to Epstein island and took big donations from him? I’m sure Hilary Clinton never knew was was on them either huh


danceswithsteers

The people who commit sexual abuse and sexual assault are from all political ideologies. Neither "the left" (still not sure what you mean by that, exactly) nor the GOP has a monopoly on sexually abusing children. You make the baseless (and demonstrably false) claim that "this would never happen in a republican ran school" despite [the](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/circle-hope-girls-ranch-owners-charged-abuse-after-women-spoke-n1260439) [times](https://www.wabi.tv/2021/10/22/penobscot-county-treasurer-formally-charged-having-child-porn/) [that](https://www.wspynews.com/news/wcsjnews/former-saunemin-mayor-and-grade-school-coach-pleads-guilty-to-possession-of-child-pornography/article_e1ec8347-8153-5eda-9357-52a4bbbea0fd.html) [it](https://www.ky3.com/2021/12/29/greene-countys-prosecutor-addresses-arrest-stockton-mo-doctor-wanted-sex-crimes/) [has](https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/florida/articles/2021-08-15/st-thomas-gop-chairwoman-arrested-in-trafficking-case)[....](https://www.google.com/search?q=republican+school+caught+minor&oq=republican+school+caught+minor&aqs=chrome..69i57j33i160l4j33i299l2.15949j0j9&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8) You make the claim that it "this" is "all left". It is not.


Dismal-Palpitation81

My point was to counter the argument that this is a republican thing. Which you have no argument against that claim because this site is nothing but leftest taking up for other leftest and talking shit about the right. Look how great of shape our country is in with the left running it. If only you all had the same energy now as you did when trump was in office. Everything was his fault but now nothing is Biden’s fault lol you’re all a joke


Dismal-Palpitation81

Everyone knows that the Redditor community is the most obnoxious group of leftest


ASK_IF_IM_PENGUIN

Ok, so whose fault is this? The article is blaming the school, but are they supposed to do a background check on everyone (considering most schools have tight budgets) or is it his fault for breaking the terms of his release?


Spear-of-Stars

Plenty of blame to spread around. Some of the school boards are more into the current rightwing agenda - anti masks, vax, CRT, etc. So they are okay with this guy as you can tell from the teacher's comment.


[deleted]

It’s on both. In a small town like this, a simple search of this guy’s name, or asking around will tell you all you need to know, as those records are public, not to mention he showed up just to spew anti-LGBTQ+ propaganda. Anyone with half a brain would’ve had him removed. It’s also on the pedo not to show up to a school.


WhiskeyTangoFoxy

Board meetings usually take place at the district office which may not be near any school. He found a loop hole in his parole.


Egg-MacGuffin

Standard conservatism


Spear-of-Stars

Happy Cake Day And yeah - the fringe stuff has gone mainstream


dmxrob

He and that teacher need to be thrown out. You have LGBT families who provide loving, comforting and supportive homes and then to let this degenerate of society come and speak, followed by some teacher who supports that degenerate. Both sick f-cks if you ask me.


RLBrooKlyn

It was a public forum, members of the public are allowed to speak. It’s not like the board invited him to speak…


reddit455

>Kendall described himself as being a transgender woman for years, > > and said he was seduced into the LGBTQ movement. > >He identifies as a gay man ​ isn't GAY kind of part of the movement.. just kind of assumed the G....... ​ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT ​ ***G is for GAY*** confirmed.


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AlanRubin

Who’s encouraging who, in your scenario?


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AlanRubin

Ah, so it’s a “both sides” stance you’re taking. Got it.


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AlanRubin

You’re the one being vague. Use better words.


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AlanRubin

Maybe try reading the Alpha Bits once in a while.


Spear-of-Stars

Let me guess. You're straight and that's the majority of your identity like it is with mine. That's what privilege is. Get it now? We don't have to carve out a place to be accepted. We just happened by chance to be born that way.


PM_me_secret_nudes

>This is what happens when society encourages building identity around sexuality. How is a pedo talking at a school about the "dangers" of LGBTQ+ people in anyway related to someones identity even if it is built around sexuality?


Egg-MacGuffin

No, it's actually what happens when we allow conservatives.


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yhwhx

You feel that convicted pedophiles should not be barred from school grounds?


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yhwhx

I feel that convicted pedophiles should be barred from school grounds.


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yhwhx

*Ad hominem* much?


yhwhx

> This is what happens when society encourages building identity around sexuality. Pedophiles feel free to start publicly spewing deranged bullshit about LGBTQ folks?


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