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[NBC News] Teen leading in Kansas race admits blackmail, revenge p*rn

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by Os Trigonum, Aug 16, 2020.

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  1. Astrodome

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    Is this from The Onion?

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    Hey who gives a crap about minor things as an adult his positions on healthcare for all or the green new deal etc. if he had some bad online behavior IN MIDDLE SCHOOL. lol
     
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    Was he doing revenge p*rn in middle school?
     
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    His 15 minutes are up...
     
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    I know people like to talk about the youth of this country is our hope but there is something to be said about maturity. What this guy did was bad but from what I've seen of many of today's generation Z he isn't an outlier.
     
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    Really you're going to make light of bullying and revenge p*rn targeting teenage girls? I don't know if you read the articles but one of his victims tried to kill herself.

    This is putting ideology over things like competence and decency.

    I've argued before and still believe there should be room for redemption and forgiveness. This though isn't a case of a low level employee or contractor losing their job over a one time incident. This is someone with a repeated pattern of abuse being elected to a position of public trust. Also that's he's 19 and these incidents occurred when he was 14. Yes a 19 year old is very different than a 14 year old but at the same time I'm not sure that a 19 year old really has the maturity to fully assess the position of trust he is put in or to fully assess the damage that he might've caused. I don't think Aaron Coleman should be banned from politics but I definitely think there should be more time grow before given this type of position.
     
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    kid wants back in the race apparently

    https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/25/...ml?action=click&module=Latest&pgtype=Homepage

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    The 19-year-old candidate for the Kansas Legislature who admitted to sending revenge p*rn and bullying girls online when he was in middle school said Tuesday that he was breaking his pledge to withdraw as the Democratic nominee.

    The candidate, Aaron Coleman, a dishwasher and community college student, defeated a seven-term incumbent, Stan Frownfelter, earlier this month by 14 votes in the Democratic primary for the 37th District seat in the Kansas House of Representatives. The final count was 823 to 809.

    Days after Mr. Coleman won the unlikely victory, he withdrew, saying he wanted to focus on caring for his family. Democratic state leaders had distanced themselves from him after he won and said they worried that his past actions and his inappropriate comments as the primary election approached could hurt the party’s chances in key races.

    But on Tuesday, Mr. Coleman said he was back in the race. In a statement posted from his Twitter account, he said that he had been under attack from the moment he won. “I obviously did not expect to have my entire personal life, especially what I did in middle school, put under that kind of national microscope,” he said. He said supporters had urged him to stay in the race and had told him that “all of us have sinned.”

    In recent months, in a social media post, Mr. Coleman wrote that he would “laugh and giggle” if a former Republican state lawmaker died of the coronavirus, according to The Kansas Reflector, a nonprofit news organization.

    Some on the left, however, defended his candidacy, saying his middle school misconduct should not outweigh the anti-abortion-rights stance and other positions of the incumbent he had defeated. Mr. Coleman’s platform includes support for universal health care and the legalization of mar1juana.
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    First, Kansas is a **** hole state when it comes to politics.

    Second, apparently this kid is qualified for office if we hold him to the same moral standards we hold Donald Trump to.
     
    #32 Nook, Aug 26, 2020
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