Penn State sex abuse victim bullied out of school

http://insession.blogs.cnn.com/2011/11/21/penn-state-sex-abuse-victim-bullied-out-of-school/ ^ | 11/21/2011 | Graham Winch

[Scotswife]

the funny thing about what you said in that post is.....people thought they admired Paterno because he was “old school”

Clean? Oh yeah...Penn State was clean. The cleanest.

[Scotswife]

” Or did they happen to get presented with a situation that flummoxed and taxed their one-ounce portions of grey matter to get right?”

As I have observed one person from afar, I’ll make an attempt at that answer...

The first few days of news articles covering this story did not do justice to the horror found in the Grand Jury presentment.
Brief articles - widely read by the students - sanitized the language of the graphic acts.
For a few days, most of them finished similarly “Joe Paterno not implicated..”, “Joe Paterno not a target of the investigation”..”Joe Paterno did what was legally required”

And so...you could almost get the impression JoePa was still a good guy who did what he was supposed to...otherwise he would have been arrested, right?

Fortunately....these kids are home now, and hopefully most of them are beginning to absorb more of the story now that they are out that bubble.
The Grand Jury presentment should have been required reading for all of these kids over the break.

There are many Penn Staters in my life....those that have actually read the GJ presentment are behaving much differently than those who watch quick news segments on tv.

[EDINVA]

The problem here is that bullies are bred at home. Then their prejudices are fostered among their contemporaries. What happened to this victim at school is actually a form of vigilante justice.

The culture of State College, PA was and is such that Penn State football and Paterno were THE most important thing in the world. How DARE a victim come forward and upend that? Their message, literally, is ‘keep taking it in the butt’ but don’t hurt the Penn State football program or our god, Paterno.

[varyouga]

Yep, my ex-GF is from central PA and we met when I went to Penn State. She’s a sweet girl but has some friends on the trashy side.

One of her friend’s hobbies was, and I quote, “chugging whiskey and throwing stuff”. Stuff like couches and kegs. Most people would probably cross the street if they saw this dude at night.

Lots of badasses without a braincell out there

[New Perspective]

This is the typical way the left operates. The March of Dimes would conduct search-and-destroy missions by recommending amniocentesis...discover those likely to have a disability while still in the womb...then murder them in the womb. You victimize the disability, doing away with it by ridding society of the disabled themselves!

Fighting this everyday for care with my son.

As an additional note to everyone else. I had a wrestling coach try and make some moves on me when I was a freshman in high school. Told my parents, they contacted the school all the way up to the superintendent. Even in public meetings all authority figures would blame me.

My dad's job had us relocating every year and I ended back at the same high school for my senior year. Guess what happened when I was gone. The wrestling coach molested 2 other boys, the school transferred the coach to another local school with a ringing endorsement. Guess what happened, 2 more boys molested.

Even after all of this he still continues to ref wrestling matches.

Upon my return I had a more than a few adults in the school system apologize for not doing anything, with the exception of the ones who could of actually stopped it, the principal and superintendent. But the super was too busy screwing his secretary on his desk during school hours.

I can thank my parents for their guidance growing up and the openness we had to talk to each other. They were my parents, not my friends, that was not their job.

[Neoliberalnot]

The homosexual agenda is working. Anyone opposed to the right of male homosexuals to use young boys will be summarily vilified, smeared, ridiculed, and homophobed. Homosexuals want your kids and they will not be denied their rights.

[Colofornian]

I hope PSU is offered a bowl game and I would vote 100% yes for them to accept it. To do otherwise is to punish the kids who had nothing to do with this.

Get a clue.

A LOT of NCAA sanctions vs. a given university wind up effecting "kids who had nothing to do with" it.

A LOT of family reputations take a big hit from a family "black sheep" -- and the rest of the family "had nothing to do with" the black sheep acting out.

That's what's so hypocritical in these kind of statements.

At Penn State football games, one side says "We are" and the other side says "Penn State."

The "we" is a 'family' identity of sorts.

Hopefully that's fading away a bit.

One of the Penn State profs interviewed on NBC last night said he came out of a building one morning where hundreds if not thousands of Penn State students were...one student yelled "We are" and there was dead silence.

[Sir_Humphrey]

A LOT of NCAA sanctions vs. a given university wind up effecting "kids who had nothing to do with" it.

And those sanctions are unjust. Look, if you want to punish somebody take the money from the school. The kids who are saying We Are Penn State are not the buggers or the ones who covered it up.