Can an Archaeological Dig Change the Future of Jerusalem?

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TIL in 2006, a woman farted on an American Airlines plane and attempted to cover up her farts by burning matches. When the passengers reported the smell of burning matches to the crew, the flight made an emergency landing in Nashville, and the FBI was called in to conduct an investigation.

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DGH Seeks Data on ONGC's Top 47 Fields After Rejection of Bid to Privatise Fields

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Nepal Seeks Indian Investment in Hydro Power, Roads & Highways

The IBN, chaired by PM Khadga Prasad Oli, is a high-level fast track agency with the objective of facilitating the economic development of Nepal by creating an investment-friendly environment.

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Rabada's yorker will be 'Ball of the IPL': Ganguly

Former India captain and Delhi Capitals advisor Sourav Ganguly termed Kagiso Rabada's match-winning yorker to KKR's Andre Russell as the "Ball of the IPL".

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SL's Test captain Karunaratne arrested over drink driving

Sri Lanka's Test captain Dimuth Karunaratne was arrested for alleged drunk driving in Colombo on Sunday.

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Trump’s plan to cut off aid would spend US policy in Central America

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A stranger fixed up the one and only picture we have of my Vietnam Vet grandfather. Im at a loss for words

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That's one way to make an argument...

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Trump Turns U.S. Policy in Central America on Its Head

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Take me back to 2006

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IPL: MI skipper Rohit fined for slow over rate

Mumbai Indians (MI) captain Rohit Sharma was fined after his team maintained a slow over-rate during their Indian Premier League (IPL) match against Kings XI Punjab (KXIP) in Mohali.

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It's hard to spot any weakness in SRH XI: AB de Villiers

Ahead of their match against Sunrisers Hyderabad, Royal Challengers Bangalore batsman AB de Villiers expressed hope of registering their first victory of the season.

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Artificial Intelligence Helping Matrimony Sites Suggest Match For Life Partner

Artificial intelligence algorithm is helping users on matrimony sites to find a match not only based on their preferences but also by observing and understanding the user's behaviour and suggesting real-time appropriate profiles.

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The owners went through the effort of building the menorah to help their children feel more involved with their neighbours’ Christmas decorations and someone pulls this. Cruel.

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Fuck You and Your Bubble Tea

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If Tinder is implementing a height setting for men, they should implement a weight setting for women.

Tinder just announced a setting for men to show their height, under the reasoning that too many men lie about their height on the app and as they put it, are "height fishing" women. I can just about guarantee they won't do a fucking thing about weight for women. I have friends who have been fat fished. That's essentially the same damn thing. Why the hell should guys show their height if women won't show their weight. It's so fucking dumb to me. A girl doesn't like a guy because of his height? "You go girl!", "Girl power!", blah blah blah. A guy doesn't like a girl because she's fat? "Asshole!", "So misogynistic!", blah blah blah. It annoys the living fuck out of me that women aren't held to the same societal standards regarding attraction that men are.

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Let me be clear, I have no issue with a woman if she is fat. I am just not attracted to it. Also, it is totally okay with me if a woman isn't attracted to me because I'm 5'9"

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Yes I'm aware that the height setting is optional, similar to Bumble, and it's not as bad as something like Hinge where you're required to put your height, whereas women aren't required to put their weight. While this is about Tinder's new settings, I think it really opens up the societal double standard regarding attraction to the opposing sex and it just pisses me the fuck off.

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I hope we get an individual gold in Tokyo: Abhinav Bindra

From being an International Olympic Committee's (IOC) Athletes Committee member to managing the foundation, former shooter and India's only individual Olympic gold medallist Abhinav Bindra is donning many hats.

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Bhuvneshwar's bowling a concern for SRH as they take on RCB

The Sunrisers, over the years, have taken pride in their bowling unit and proved it by defending smaller totals. However, in the first two games, their bowling has been taken to the cleaners. The medium pacers, led by Bhuvneshwar Kumar, have been unable to rein in the rival batsmen and death bowling is now a matter of concern.

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IPL: DC beat KKR in Super Over after Prithvi Shaw heroics

The match went into the Super Over after Delhi Capitals finished at 185/6. Much to the home team's joy, Kagiso Rabada speared in perfect yorkers to defend 10 runs in the Super Over.

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Pitch takes centre stage as Chennai Super Kings face Rajasthan Royals

​​​​The slow nature of the 22 yards came in for censure from both CSK and RCB during the IPL opener here last weekend, having yielded a low-scoring encounter where the balance was heavily tilted in favour of the spinners.

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Sachin Tendulkar's meeting with Pawar sets off speculation

Batting legend Sachin Tendulkar on Saturday met NCP supremo Sharad Pawar at the latter's residence. While it's reliably learnt that Sachin Tendulkar isn't joining politics, the meeting set off speculation that the retired great may be eyeing an innings as an administrator of the Mumbai Cricket Association, which Pawar once headed.

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Missed opportunity to finish the game for DC: Shaw

It looked like the day once again belonged to the Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) all-rounder Andre Russell after he hit a 27-ball 62 against the Delhi Capitals (DC). But DC opener Prithvi Shaw had other ideas as he hit a classy 99 to overshadow Russells knock.

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IPL: We were not thinking of Super Over, says Iyer

Delhi Capitals captain Shreyas Iyer on Saturday said that his side did not expect their IPL match against Kolkata Knight Riders to go to the Super Over via which they eventually won.

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Lack of all-rounder hurting Virat Kohli's men: Krishnamachari Srikkanth

Former Indian captain Krishnamachari Srikkanth reiterated the fact that cricket is a team sport and too much dependence on one or two players cannot see a team go all the way.

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Sanmay is my practice partner: Manika Batra

In her first comments since parting ways with her long-time coach Sandeep Gupta, ace shuttler Manika Batra on Saturday clarified that city-based Sanmay Paranjpe was not her new coach, but only a "co-player" and "practice partner".

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Aus bowlers deny 'false' Warner boycott reports

Australia's top bowlers on Sunday lashed out at "false" and "inflammatory" claims they were planning a Test boycott if David Warner had not been kicked off the team in the wake of the ball-tampering scandal.

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Kings XI Punjab break the Mumbai Indians jinx

The win was special for the home side as they finally managed to break the jinx of four consecutive losses to Mumbai Indians in Mohali. The Kings last managed a home win over MI way back in 2011.

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Woods loses to Bjerregaard in Match Play quarters

Tiger Woods won a dramatic morning showdown with Rory McIlroy only to be upset by Denmark's Lucas Bjerregaard in quarter-finals of the WGC Match Play Championship.

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Mayank hails Punjab's 'clinical' win, calls it confidence booster

Elated after registering their second win of the season, Mayank Agarwal hailed the victory over Mumbai Indians as a "clinical" one which should definitely serve as a confidence booster for the side going ahead in the cash-rich Indian Premier League (IPL).

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Barty defeats Pliskova to capture Miami Open title

Ashleigh Barty's transformation is complete after the Australian defeated Czech fifth seed Karolina Pliskova 7-6 (7/1) 6-3 Saturday to win the biggest singles title of her career at the WTA Miami Open.

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India Open: Srikanth in final, Sindhu loses in semis

Former champion Kidambi Srikanth reached title round after a 17-month drought but PV Sindhu bowed out after losing a close semi-final contest at the $350,000 India Open on Saturday.

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Solskjaer relieved to avoid Watford 'banana skin'

Ole Gunnar Solskjaer celebrated his first match as full-time Manchester United manager with a 2-1 win over Watford though he was happier to have avoided slipping up on what he termed a potential 'banana skin'.

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Kean steps up in Ronaldo absence to rescue Juventus

Rising teenage star Moise Kean stepped up in the absence of Cristiano Ronaldo to rescue a 1-0 win for Juventus against lowly Empoli on Saturday as the champions opened up an 18-point lead at the top of Serie A.

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Sampdoria pounce on Donnarumma mistake to beat Milan

Sampdoria pounced on a glaring error by AC Milan goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma in the first minute to beat Gennaro Gattuso's side 1-0 in an end-to-end Serie A match on Saturday.

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India slip again, South Korea win Azlan Shah Cup

India's nine-year wait to win another Sultan Azlan Shah Cup extended on Saturday as South Korea held their nerves better in the final to first equalise in the fourth quarter and then beat Manpreet Singh & Co in the shootout for their third title.

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Big sports events today

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NITI Aayog doing Wonderful Work in Many Areas: VK Saraswat

Saraswat's comments come in the backdrop of Congress president Rahul Gandhi that if voted to power, his party would scrap the NITI Aayog.

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No Word on Salary Dues Yet, Jet Pilots Threaten to go on Strike From Tomorrow

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Branches of Vijaya, Dena Bank to function as BoB outlets from Monday: RBI

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Jet Airways Crisis Deepens as Airlines Says it Can't Clear Pilots' Dues Immediately

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Discord wants to censor harmless speech while the hate speech of Staff is seemingly condoned.

SUMMARY

Discord is asking Partners to sanitize our servers of speech not fit for "everyone." This policy extends to the "r-word" (even in the context of a self-depreciating joke) and the "n-word with an a" (even in the context of posting song lyrics on hip-hop servers). Although many Partners, including those with predominantly African American communities, have continued to voice concern about this policy, Discord has not addressed those concerns directly or stated that it has any intention of changing the policy.

 

A representative of Discord Trust & Safety was notified directly on March 23rd that one of the Discord Staff outlining this policy to Partners has pages of hateful and disparaging Tweets using #FuckCisPeople, #CisPeople, and #Cis on the public-facing Twitter account linked in her Discord profile. The Tweets were discussed on the Discord server for Partners on March 24th and March 27th. The Staff temporarily made this Twitter account private on March 28th, but it was made public again on March 29th with none of the controversial Tweets removed. The Staff in question is still regularly and consistently communicating with Partners in an official capacity using a Staff account linking said public Twitter account.

 

Partners are expected to abide by the CoC's strict speech guidelines across all of our social media because our "behavior may reflect on Discord." Discord gives Partners 48 hours to remove reported content because Trust & Safety adheres to the same deadline. 113 hours passed between Trust & Safety being notified about the #FuckCisPeople Tweets on March 23rd and the Twitter profile temporarily being made private on March 28th. Now that it is public again, it has been 160 hours, and none of the Tweets have been removed.

 

Although I suspect I will be de-Partnered for submitting this post to /r/pcgaming, it is only a matter of time before someone else does the same in a less reputable sub, and I believe that Discord -- not the individuals it employs -- should be taken to task over this latest example of a disturbing double standard in its core values and ethics. Not only has Discord failed to respond to Partner concerns adequately, but it has failed to moderate even its own staff accordingly under its own guidelines. This raises serious concerns for Discord communities about what standard our speech will be evaluated under, and by whom.

 

BACKGROUND

Last week I posted a thread on /r/DiscordApp about CoC changes for Partners, which is now locked. Discord never responded to the thread and the only direct acknowledgment I've seen about the concerns raised in it is denial that we are being asked to "blanket ban" certain words. This denial is given in the absence of any statement adding, retracting, clarifying, or expounding upon past Staff statements to the contrary.

 

AN EGREGIOUS DOUBLE STANDARD IN VALUES

"As a Discord Partner and effectively a face of the Discord community, your behavior may reflect on Discord. You should be on good behavior on the Discord platform, across other social media platforms, and in real life." (Discord Partner CoC)

 

On March 23rd, /r/JoeRogan DMed a representative of Discord Trust & Safety (hereinafter referred to as "Safety Boss") notifying him that the public-facing Twitter account linked on the Discord profile of another Staff member (hereinafter referred to as "Help Boss") contained a prolific history of disparaging Tweets using the hashtags "#FuckCisPeople", "#CisPeople", and "#Cis" between 2014-2018. Here are some examples of those Tweets. Help Boss was one of the Discord Staff appointed to answer Partner questions about the new CoC and many of the quotes in my CoC thread came from her. /r/JoeRogan provided direct links and screenshots of these public Tweets to Safety Boss.

 

Safety Boss acknowledged his concern:

 

Safety Boss: "I'll pass the feedback/info along." (March 23rd)

 

One full day later, when it was seen that the Tweets were still public and the Twitter account was still linked in Help Boss' profile, /r/JoeRogan vocalized his frustration at the perceived double-standard by linking to one of the #FuckCisPeople Tweets in #Ask-The-Team. Discord Partners condemned the Tweets for their contents. No members of Discord Staff did the same.

 

Later in the day, Safety Boss acknowledged these concerns:

 

Safety Boss: "[...] We definitely care about the feedback and take it to heart. [...] I keep up with this channel! [...] I'll be sure to share that feedback with the team as a whole." (March 24th)

 

Four days later, when it was seen that the Tweets were still public and the Twitter account was still linked on Help Boss' profile, /r/JoeRogan once again asked in #Ask-The-Team to address what had by now become a flagrant and egregious example of Discord's double standards.

 

/r/JoeRogan: "Can we address why a Staff member is using hate speech publicly, calling for violence? Or is that swept under the rug like the rest of it? [Help Boss] still [has] publicly available Tweets connected to their work Discord account. Using Discord's platform as a starting point, I can click on [Help Boss]'s profile, see her connections, click on her Twitter, and find hate speech. Explain how that is not relevant?"

Help Boss: "I fucking hate cis straight religious people and I seriously hope the fucker responsible drowns." (Mar 26, 2016)

 

Discord Partner: "As a white straight religious cis person, that makes me super duper uncomfortable. ??"

 

DISCORD DOESN'T CARE HOW PARTNERS FEEL ABOUT STAFF HATE SPEECH

One Discord Partner said that as a religious person, the views expressed in the Tweets made her feel very uncomfortable. I spoke with this Partner, who is a Muslim, on March 29th and believe her reaction was genuine.

 

I asked this Partner if any member of Discord Staff reached out to her in the days since the Tweets were shared to condemn their contents, renounce them as being representative of Discord's values, or to make her feel more comfortable coming to Staff for help. She said no.

 

There are many Staff roles on the server for Discord Partners and every Partner I've spoken with has only a vague idea of what any of them signify (there is no description on the server or website). Out of these Staff roles, I counted the following Staff online throughout the day after Help Boss's public Tweets were posted and discussed.

 

x1 Discord Staff with the "Hype Floof" role  

x1 Discord Staff with the "Hype Knight" role  

x1 Discord Staff with the "Safety Boss" role  

x8 Discord Staff with the "Help Boss" role  

x18 Discord Staff with the "Discord Devs" role

 

Out of these 29 online Discord Staff, not one condemned the views expressed in the Tweets. Not one renounced those views as being representative of Discord, its values, or those of its Staff and employees. Not even Help Boss disavowed these views as being reflective of currently-held beliefs or values.

 

In fact, rather than address these concerns and commit to removing the Tweets or privatizing her account, Help Boss instead asked Partners to take their opinions "about posts she made 6 years ago" to another channel.

 

Help Boss: "It would be nice if you could keep this chat to actual questions for Discord staff. You can say whatever you want about posts I made 6 years ago, but please do it in a channel that isn't oriented around getting responses to support issues. [...] So if it belongs anywhere it's in Feedback. [...]"

 

The Tweets were from 2016 and the channel this discussion took place in was #Ask-The-Team. There is a separate channel called #Help.

 

Discord Partner: "'Feedback' implies just one way communication. We would like to see a reply, hence 'ask.'"

 

Help Boss: "Technical questions are now appearing in feedback and other channels, because you have effectively decided to hijack this chat to talk about my personal 'hate speech,' and that's not what this server is for. At all."

 

Discord Partner: "Why are the Tweets still there? [...] Why was no effort made to remove these Tweets?"

 

Safety Boss: "This isn't the appropriate place for issues with staff members. If you must, the best place would be abuse@discordapp.com -- you won't get a detailed response but we do read everything sent there."

 

PARTNERS HAVE 48 HOURS TO REMOVE COMMUNITY CONTENT

160 HOURS WASN'T ENOUGH TO REMOVE ONE STAFF HYPERLINK TO HATE SPEECH

Many Partners feel the 48 hour deadline for removing reported content on our servers is unreasonable given the scope and controversy of what we are being asked to moderate. Discord is known to issue vague warnings, and Safety Boss acknowledged that while Partners would be "pointed in the right direction" of reported content, they should not expect to be told which users posted it for "privacy reasons." As one Partner described his own past experience with Discord T&S, "the delay in e-mail responses and [...] overall vagueness [is] hardly helpful."

 

Dismissing these Partner concerns, "Hype Queen Supreme" explained that Discord's own Trust & Safety timeline is 48 hours, so Discord "abide[s] by that rule for all of [its] users."

 

Discord boasts in its "35 Reasons to Work at Discord" video that it sees performance reviews as "rigid and ineffective," so its employees "talk to each other on an ongoing basis" instead. Safety Boss has stated that most Discord employees work on-site.

 

Acknowledging these facts, I submit the following timeline of events and ask Discord to provide its Partners and users with an explanation as to why Help Boss was not compelled -- either through her own action or the direction of her employer -- to delete the Tweets, conceal them from view, or remove the Twitter link from her profile in a 160 hour period involving three separate notifications about the content.

 

March 23rd - 160 hours since first notification of concerns.  

Safety Boss, who is a representative of Discord Trust & Safety, is personally notified that the Twitter account linked on Help Boss' profile has a public and recent history of what should meet Discord's definition of Hate Speech.

 

Safety Boss: "I'll pass the feedback/info along." (March 23rd, 6:25PM PST)

 

March 24th - 146 hours since second notification of concerns.  

Help Boss' Tweets are brought up in the Discord Partners server and acknowledged by Safety Boss a second time.

 

Safety Boss: "Gotcha, I'll be sure to share that feedback with the team as a whole." (March 24th, 4:55PM PST)

 

March 27th - 41 hours since third notification of concerns.  

Help Boss' Tweets are brought up a second time in the Discord Partners server. Safety Boss is notified a third time about the Tweets and Twitter link.

 

Safety Boss: "This isn't the appropriate place for issues with Staff members. If you must, the best place would be abuse@discordapp.com -- you won't get a detailed response but we do read everything sent there. [...]" (March 27th 10:16AM PST)

 

HOW DOES DISCORD VALUE AND EVALUATE SPEECH?

Discord's Partner CoC states that it "wants our Partnered servers to be welcoming to all users." If this is the intended goal of the CoC policy's restrictions on speech, I ask Discord to answer the following questions for its users.

 

1.) In the interest of being "welcoming to all users," I ask for Discord to explain why it wishes to silence users -- particularly those of African American descent -- from using the "n word with an a" in acceptable contexts other leading social media platforms allow; such as the discussion of hip-hop, quoting of song lyrics, or even the greeting of a friend. Would Discord please explain to its users why this speech is unacceptable under the company values that influenced the formation of this policy, while the following speech from "Help Boss" is seemingly condoned?

 

Help Boss: "Cis men are a scourge and they need to be stopped" (March 16th, 2016)

 

2.) In the interest of being "welcoming to all users," I ask for Discord to explain why it wishes to silence users -- particularly those who are Twitch Partners, content creators, radio and talkshow hosts -- from using the "r-word" in contexts other leading social media platforms allow; such as self-depreciating jokes, discussion arising from those jokes, or even discussion about the social acceptability of the word in general. I ask Discord to explain why it wishes to silence these contexts even in the creation of content put on other platforms. Would Discord please explain to its users why this speech is unacceptable under the company values that influenced the formation of this policy, while the following speech from "Help Boss" is seemingly condoned?

 

Help Boss: "Hey did you know did you know did you know cis people are fucking garbage" (June 7th, 2016)

 

3.) In the interest of being "welcoming to all users," I ask for Discord to explain how it arrived at a policy so prohibitively restrictive on speech as to disallow the contexts described above, and why it has seen fit to push the burden of enforcing it onto Partners with a "take it or leave it" stance that does not appear to value our concerns. Would Discord please explain to its Partners why they should have confidence in how their speech under these guidelines will be evaluated, when it is being done under the same roof where the following speech from "Help Boss" is seemingly condoned?

 

Help Boss: "Straight people put their filthy lifestyle front and center in everything that they do and I'm tired of it being shoved in my face." (June 8th, 2016)

 

CONCLUSION

It is common and accepted knowledge that Discord has a legal right to restrict speech on its platform however it sees fit. This does not mean there is no place for feedback from its users on policies that have not yet gone into effect. The new CoC only applies to Partner servers for now, but it does set a precedence and carry profound implications for speech across the platform for every user. If you use Discord and have an opinion on how it is forming and applying the policies discussed in this thread, then I encourage you to share your thoughts here, and I thank you for doing so.

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This is Sophia. She just turned ten and used her birthday money to purchase toys for the dogs & cats at the animal shelter.

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AITA for allowing the girls on my HS track team (I’m the new head coach) wear bikini tops and cut off shorts for a fund raising car wash?;

This is very fresh, posting from my phone and a throwaway because I’m honestly nervous about how big this is going to get. I just got an email from the assistant superintendent of the entire district that I have to be in his office Monday morning and I’m scared shitless.

Basically I just graduated college and got my teaching certificate last year. The school heeded a track coach of the program would fold so I volunteered even though district guidelines (not rules) specify that a certain number of years is required before taking a head coach position but the principal waived this. We have some very talented girls and I enjoy it.

We were scheduled to do a car wash fund raiser this morning. On Monday one of the girls asked me if they could wear bikini tops and cut off shorts. They argued it was for thier comfort since it’s about 80 here today. I was a little nervous but agreed. Apparently word got out on social media and we had a line of cars 30 minutes before we even started. I’m so naive I thought initially people were just being charitable but when I saw boys from surrounding schools I knew somthing was up. And it wasn’t long before older men started taking notice and we had a line where it was taking an hour to get a car washed. The girls themselves loved it, they all had fun, nothing bad happened (thank god) and all are proud of themselves for how much we made.

Parents are furious with me and obviously it’s gone up the chain. I’m hoping to god I can chalk this up to my inexperience and I’m not fired buf when I had a 6’4” dad screaming in my face that he’s going to get my fired...I’m scared.

Am I the asshole for allowing this?

Edit: Just as a quick update, in rhe last few minutes I've gotten two texts from parents offering me thier support and willing to show up with me Monday to at the very least talk about how out of line the dad was who screamed in my face, that makes me feel a little better.

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Russia tells Trump its troops will stay in Venezuela for 'as long as needed' in a blunt rejection of his demand they leave immediately

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This was so weird ...

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