… where two hundred former Penn State football players have sent a letter to the school demanding the return of the Joe Paterno statue.
This is just the latest public eruption of the festering madness infecting the school, as Paterno cultists within the board of trustees itself continue an unfortunate propaganda campaign in a vain attempt to make decades of rapes un-happen. Such wild truther-ism has found traction in central Pennsylvania, enough to entice Donald Trump to court them at a recent campaign event. Indeed, a Public Policy Polling poll in the state finds strong correlation between those who support Trump and still venerate Paterno, indicating a special combination of white, male, angry and stupid — all too fertile ground for dangerous, willful ignorance…
This letter is a vile and direct affront to [Jerry] Sandusky’s victims, with these players attempting to use their standing within the football program as some kind of positive status, despite its complicity in harboring Sandusky for years. The playing days for the letter’s signatories spans from the 1950s through the 2010s, covering entirely Sandusky’s time on campus, which began in 1963.
These players don’t care that for nearly half a century, Penn State football incubated child rape. Joe Paterno was Penn State football, and it was okay with him that his program was being used by a serial predator to abet and shield violent crimes.
Rational people outside this troubled community will never understand the psychological pathology that continues to drive efforts to create a more palatable alternate history.
The writer takes the effing nuts route, which sounds right to UD, although she’d add, in the case of some of the signees, repeated concussions.
If you add stupid (“white, male, angry and stupid”), you end up with a tripartite etiology: psychosis; concussion; stupidity. It’s not clear that anyone’s mind could withstand that onslaught.
July 10th, 2016 at 1:14PM
not to mention the lifetime of socialization into the cult.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/10/sports/youth-sports-embezzlement-by-adults.html
July 11th, 2016 at 1:09PM
To play devil’s advocate, much of Sandusky’s criminal activity took place at the Second Mile Foundation. It was established in 1977 and was dissolved in January of 2016. Given that, why does everything begin and end with Paterno and PSU football? They’re garbage for their nonchalance, but where were PA’s DHS, AG’s office, any and all of the agencies that are in place to not have this happen? Sandusky ran that non-profit for nearly 34 years, thousands of kids went through the SMF. And yet, nothing was done until recently? Something is very wrong with this whole thing and it transcends PSU and their football program….