Ryan Walters, the Oklahoma schools chief who mandated that all schools teach the Bible, was caught watching porn in his office.

  • Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world
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    16 hours ago

    I dunno. Feels like a prank. If it was actually him, he probably would have been saying things like “how did that happen” and all the usual bs. Instead he was thinking of how he was going get revenge on the person who did it. And the most damning peice of evidence… I doubt he knows how to connect that screen to the internet.

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      3 hours ago

      I dunno. He accused the board members who pointed it out of lying. If he had nothing to hide, why say they’re lying? Why not just say “I have no idea how this happened”? The only alternative explanation I can think of for accusing them is that maybe he’s paranoid?

      Having grown up in the ultra-conservative puritan world, with its absurd and unhealthy levels of sexual repression, I would be genuinely surprised if this guy wasn’t regularly consuming porn. And he’s a millennial, so I wouldnt be at all surprised by him knowing how to connect a screen…

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        1 hour ago

        Well, guys like that can be almost allergic to anything that implies they are not in complete control of everything around them. And of course he learned from trump to just claim anyone against him is lieing.

        The connection thing was really just a joke. No way to know if he might know how to do that.

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        2 hours ago

        Presumably because “I have no idea how this happened” sounds even more like guilt than “you’re lying.” You are looking at two pretty similar responses IMO and saying there’s a wold of difference between them.

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      15 hours ago

      this seems like the most plausible answer, though I predict you won’t get highly upvoted since this isn’t really what we want to hear.

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        3 hours ago

        Truth. Though without having interacted with the guy I can’t know if he fits the mold of people like him. He could be an outlier. But I guess the other people could be lieing too. It’s really all a crapshoot.
        And at the end of the day, I don’t care if he watches porn or even what kind of person he is. I care about his impact on the children under his care. Everything else is a distraction.