Posted on 04/27/2021 9:53:45 AM PDT by rickmichaels
A Tennessee CEO was fired after he was accused of harassing a teenage boy for wearing a dress to his prom.
Former VisuWell executive Sam Johnson, 46, was filmed telling the boy he looked like an 'idiot' at the prom near Nashville on Saturday.
He has denied the allegations, despite being caught on camera making the remarks.
The boy, Dalton Stevens, 18, told NBC News he wore the dress as a statement to prove that 'clothing is really gender-less' and 'that it has no meaning', in an interview on Monday.
The Franklin high school senior told the broadcaster he was harassed by Johnson while taking pictures with his boyfriend Jacob Geittmann, who later posted the exchange on TikTok.
'I explained [why I was wearing the dress] to him and he continued to just call me names and just follow me', Stevens explained.
He said the young couple first noticed Johnson making 'homophobic' comments within the pairs earshot while they were taking pictures at the Harpeth Hotel in downtown Franklin.
The telemedicine CEO then approached Stevens and Geittmann and questioned why the 18-year-old had chosen to wear a dress.
Johnson later allegedly told Stevens 'you have hair on your chest, you shouldn't be wearing a dress'.
Geittmann then took out his phone and started filming the exchange, during which Johnson said he thought the 18-year-old senior looked 'disgusting'.
In the footage, a clearly distressed Stevens can he heard telling Johnson: 'I chose what I want to wear so you can f*** off'.
While Geittmann is filming, Johnson apparently tries to knock the phone out of his hand, but ends up hitting Stevens.
Onlookers attempt to intervene, pleading with Johnson to stop, saying: 'It's just prom. It's kids, it's a bunch of kids. Come on, dude.'
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So you are advocating for bullies because you disagree with a boy wearing a dress??
How about you let the boy do what he wants but we also don't need to bend a bend a knee for the boy either.
CEO did nothing wrong. Boy had no business wearing a dress. The degenerate brought ridicule upon himself.
The kid should have shaved his chest at the very least.
Any normal person objects to such degeneracy
“The reality is that the homosexual lifestyle is very unhealthy and ought to come with significant warnings.”
For guys, it’s CLEARLY one of the most DANGEROUS choice a person can make, right up there with hard drugs.
People used to be warned...but not anymore.
Did you really have to do that? I need eye bleach now.
Your suggestion is the traditional Conservative approach. Sort of Live and Let Live.
But the problem is that today it goes like this:
We let the Other Side so what they want.
And they beat us with sticks until we bend the knee and thank them and praise them for beating us with sticks.
I say it’s time to play a different game and push back.
I don’t care if the kid was wearing a dress, a space suit, or a Superman outfit. The kid wasn’t doing anything illegal. Was Johnson related to that boy? If not, Johnson should have kept his big mouth shut.
Why do you care?
Why don’t we just let him run around at the prom naked? It used to be if you ran around looking like a circus clown, you’d be mocked for it.
Indecent exposure is not the same thing. We don’t need to give the green light to bullies. Just ignore the kid and let him dress the way he wants.
“In a time of universal deceit, speaking the truth is a revolutionary act” - George Orwell
“Faggy” had nothing to do with sex. A fag was a sissy — a fag was a guy who wouldn’t stay out late of go stealin’ or hitchin’ on trucks or something — “Aw go home, you fag — go home, fag! It’s 10 o’clock — the big fag’s gotta go home!”That’s what happens when the left gets too much control of the language.
“Queer” — we knew what a queer was. A queer was the word we learned right after we learned “homo” — “Ah — he’s a queer! — oh, he’s a homo, he’s a homo, he’s a homo? — yeah, yeah!” A fag was a guy who wouldn’t go downtown with you beatin’ up queers! Part of that Irish street macho.
— George Carlin
> Just ignore the kid and let him dress the way he wants. <
Bingo. I personally think what the kid was doing is harmful to himself, and to society. I have a right to think that. But I have no right to try to force my opinions on someone else.
That’s what liberals do. They lecture, mock, and harass anyone who doesn’t fit their world-view. And that’s just what that man was doing. I don’t think he had bad intentions. But he was dead wrong.
Too much of that ignoring has happened.
And it’s a false dilemma between open debauchery and “bullying”.
Was God a “bully” when he wiped out Sodom and Gomorrah?
Nobody stopped the little snowflake from putting on his personal clown show. He just got mocked and it hurt his precious feelings.
By ignoring, you let the liberals’ wrong behavior win. They have succeeded in forcing their opinions on everyone else.
Morally you are correct as far as the CEOs opinion.
Morally you are wrong, I believe, to think it was O.K. for the CEO to actually, intentionally, create the confrontation.
Had the CEO been the boy’s father, I’d agree with you. He wasn’t, they were strangers until the CEO spotted the boy and chose to go over and make his comments, and chose to follow the boy and keep making them.
Those actions were more than just having a different moral opinion about boys in dresses.
I would be agreeing with you and the CEO if his entire comments about seeing the boy in a dress was comments he made openly socially somewhere after the event as in: I was at witnessed this high school prom event and there I saw a young man wearing a dress; I though how stupid is that.
My guess is even then, in today’s environment, I think his company would have fired him. And then I would be 100% behind the CEO.
When you link to that schiff, everyone that opens the FR page those pics are linked to, gives those freaks traffic / clicks simply by looking at the FR page they are on. Please don’t feed the freaks.
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