How exactly? He was fired. Big deal. Most people feel he shouldn't be celebrated. Big deal. He's been treated exactly how someone who KNOWINGLY looked the other way for decades.
Penn State to honor JoePa
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How exactly? He was fired. Big deal. Most people feel he shouldn't be celebrated. Big deal. He's been treated exactly how someone who KNOWINGLY looked the other way for decades.
Good for you then. For most of us, i believe we don't hate or hold gruges against Paterno but that doesn't mean he is not innocent in this matter. He was an enabler and chose to let things continue. I am sure in a lot of workplaces, that action warrants termination and subject to lawsuits
I think people hold grudges at least still. I think eventually people will give them up but they still do now. He isn't innocent but what he did is not anywhere near as worse.
It's pretty ******* bad. Had he made any effort to stop it in the 70s, many many kids might not have been molested.
Wasn't Joe Pa a do things the right kind of way guy? He was supposed to be a super high character guy running a program to be looked up to. You think he would want to do something more than the bare minimum. A person like that should be outraged and disgusted at something like that and do everything in their power (which Joe Pa had a lot of) to stop it
Some people keep saying JoePa made mistake(s). The decisions he made weren't mistakes.
Failure to act when given the chance is still guilty. To not act and know that children are being raped is the most chicken **** garbage piece of **** trash of a person that can be alive short of the person doing the raping.
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Probably easier to say for someone who has never been the victim of childhood sexual abuse.
Signed,
Survivor of 5+ Years of Hell
I can't remember, did I already say **** Penn State?
I agree with most of what you said, but I'm not sure "He made a huge mistake many times" quite captures the gravity of what Paterno (I refuse to call him JoePa anymore) was responsible for at Penn St. To me "made a huge mistake" implies that he didn't realize what he was doing or didn't understand the consequences of said actions. It has been reported over and over again that Paterno knew exactly what Sandusky was doing going back as early as the early 1970s (in other words, longer than I've been alive) and "he was heartbroken over it."
Even if he reported it when he first found out in the early 1970s, he would have known it was still going on for years - did he continue to report that young teenage boys were getting raped to an uncaring administration, or did he decide to take matters into his own hands - you know, something like at least fire Sandusky sometime in the 30 years between 1970 and 1999 when Paterno employed him?
That's the thing that people keep missing here - Paterno knew what Sandusky was doing going back to the early 1970s, yet he kept him in his employ until his retirement in 1999.
And yet people are going to continue to defend that Paterno is not culpable - that he didnt' foster an environment that allowed teenage boys to continue getting raped over at least a time span of 25 years by someone in his employ?
If you can't see how very wrong this is, then you may just be as sick as those involved.
That's a straw man. Show me where people think he's actually worse than sandusky. The thing is, Sandusky has been punished, and everyone acknowledges he is a worthless piece of ****. The reason paterno is vilified so much is people still defend him and say "but but but we can't forget all his wins!" if everyone could just acknowledge that he was also a terrible person, it wouldn't be as bad.
Also for those of us that hate him, we don't want him to be forgotten, we just want him to be remembered correctly: as someone who looked the other way and put wins above the safety of children.
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This is a very underappreciated part of this story.
For my own belief in the general goodness of most people, I hope this tribute ends up being a really awkward event. Actually, I hope that it is cancelled but that's probably unrealistic.
Sandusky is one of the few people on the planet that I look forward to reading their obit. So that's my outrage level.
There are mandatory child abuse reporting laws for a reason and if you know for a fact it is going on and look the other way, you are a **** person - looking at you Joe Pa.
