Please beat the pedophiles tomorrow

[koko2315]

Why can't we just drop this discussion already. It is over and the PSU athletes today had nothing to do with what happened. Life is too short to keep hatred going forever.

No one is rooting individually against the kids. Rooting against the laundry and the institution

 

[Scarlet83]

And although the circumstances at MSU were different, the crime was as horrific as PSU. But at MSU, you didn't have a giant contingent of alumni defending the people and culture that protected the predator.

Exactly. That is what I don’t understand. How anyone would willingly choose that college and become part of a giant contingent of alumni that defend the people and the culture that protected a child predator just so they could go on winning football games?

 

[zappaa]

Exactly. That is what I don’t understand. How anyone would willingly choose that college and become part of a giant contingent of alumni that defend the people and the culture that protected a child predator just so they could go on winning football games?

Because it’s my belief that 99% of the PSU alumni condemn the culture you speak of and the people that perpetrated it.
I believe 99% of them are hard working, donating to causes, first responders, volunteers and good people trying to raise families.
That’s just my opinion of the many PSU grads, including some of my immediate family that I’ve met.
Obviously you’ve had a different experience with PSU graduates.
Judging their alumni by loud mouth PSU football fans that our season ticket holders are dumb enough to sell their tickets to is wrong IMO.

However, if it’s your experience the PSU alums you’ve met defend the people and the culture that allowed those crimes, I can’t argue with you.

I’m happy to say I haven’t met any like that.

 

[Scarlet83]

Because it’s my belief that 99% of the PSU alumni condemn the culture you speak of and the people that perpetrated it.
I believe 99% of them are hard working, donating to causes, first responders, volunteers and good people trying to raise families.
That’s just my opinion of the many PSU grads, including some of my immediate family that I’ve met.
Obviously you’ve had a different experience with PSU graduates.
Judging their alumni by loud mouth PSU football fans that our season ticket holders are dumb enough to sell their tickets to is wrong IMO.

However, if it’s your experience the PSU alums you’ve met defend the people and the culture that allowed those crimes, I can’t argue with you.

I’m happy to say I haven’t met any like that.

Zap - I wish to God that I met your family and friends instead of the people I have met. The face to face discussions I have had were very difficult and awkward in many ways, because I lose respect for people like this. Any PSU grad that denounces Paterno and any of the other enablers are cool with me.

 

[PatrickRU92]

Because it’s my belief that 99% of the PSU alumni condemn the culture you speak of and the people that perpetrated it.
I believe 99% of them are hard working, donating to causes, first responders, volunteers and good people trying to raise families.
That’s just my opinion of the many PSU grads, including some of my immediate family that I’ve met.
Obviously you’ve had a different experience with PSU graduates.
Judging their alumni by loud mouth PSU football fans that our season ticket holders are dumb enough to sell their tickets to is wrong IMO.

However, if it’s your experience the PSU alums you’ve met defend the people and the culture that allowed those crimes, I can’t argue with you.

I’m happy to say I haven’t met any like that.

Hypothetical: you go door to door in state college PA and ask them "was Joe Paterno a great man?" and you are going to get far more than 1% of people who say yes. I think your percentage is highly skewed. He was a piece of human filth.

They are brainwashed. I use the word "cult" a lot when I refer to these people. Definition of "cult" from the (online) dictionary:

a misplaced or excessive admiration for a particular person or thing.
"a cult of personality surrounding the leaders"
synonyms: obsession with, fixation on, mania for, passion for;


It absolutely fits. And its not confined to the elderly population that grew up with nothing other than Joe pa and football either.

 

[RUMountie]

Exactly. That is what I don’t understand. How anyone would willingly choose that college and become part of a giant contingent of alumni that defend the people and the culture that protected a child predator just so they could go on winning football games?

I wouldn't encourage my children to attend PSU in a million years. If it was the only university left on Earth I would start a new one. I felt this way pre Sandusky. However it is wrong to characterize the student athletes as Pedophiles. Bad form.

 

[zappaa]

Hypothetical: you go door to door in state college PA and ask them "was Joe Paterno a great man?" and you are going to get far more than 1% of people who say yes. I think your percentage is highly skewed. He was a piece of human filth.

They are brainwashed. I use the word "cult" a lot when I refer to these people. Definition of "cult" from the (online) dictionary:

a misplaced or excessive admiration for a particular person or thing.
"a cult of personality surrounding the leaders"
synonyms: obsession with, fixation on, mania for, passion for;


It absolutely fits. And its not confined to the elderly population that grew up with nothing other than Joe pa and football either.

If you go door to door in State College Pa, 99% of them you asked probably wouldn’t be PSU grads unless they’re faculty or administrators.
How about finding the PSU grads that live in Westfield or Montclair or Haddonfield or anywhere and ask them

 

[PatrickRU92]

definitely true about 99% of them not being State Penn grads.

Regardless those who live there and support Paterno are just as responsible for their warped culture.

 

[Scarlet83]

I wouldn't encourage my children to attend PSU in a million years. If it was the only university left on Earth I would start a new one. I felt this way pre Sandusky. However it is wrong to characterize the student athletes as Pedophiles. Bad form.

Who characterized the student athletes as pedophiles? I certainly didn’t. You should read more carefully.