This student support for Paterno has been one of the most depressing things I have seen.
We’ve been pretty effective in the modern world at compartmentalizing personal morality and ethics and declaring that they have absolutely nothing to do with a person’s “real” life (coaching football, engaging in politics, etc.). This is particularly true if sex is involved: suddenly, it’s all “just about sex” and no matter how creepy or cruel the behavior was (or the lying to cover it up), criticism is off-limits.
Then we go into parsing phrases: what the meaning of “is” is, whether something technically constituted harrassment or was “just a crude pass” by a married man, exactly what level of authority Paterno was supposed to have reported Sandusky to in order to meet the requirements of the law, etc.
The thing that is appalling is that our entire society, young and old, liberal and conservative, seems to feel this way now and is even proud to proclaim that they no longer care about personal behavior and morality and honor.
When they gave a known rapist and an admitted abuser of women eight years at the controls of the country, this is what we get. A country unable to decipher what doing the right thing actually means.
We will continue to reap Bill Clinton’s and the democrats gifts of immorality for many generations.
it sickens me to see students rioting over a football coach being fired and not rioting that their school had a guy molesting kids.
It sickens me that some who are not students but on the radio, TV are pissed off he got fired but ignore the fact kids were molested by a homosexual man.
Kids who have to live with that for all of their life but no lets get pissed off a football coach got fired.
This just shows how America has lost her social skills, lost all sense of decorum, it is sick .
Your last paragraph is right on the money, left, right, liberal, so called conservative have just shown their sick ignorance and morality.
Now will they find the DA who was ?