I guess what's amazing to me is that many of you seem to think this is the first time it's ever happened.
I think you're missing our (or at least my) point.
No one is prancing around pretending the world is full of magical lollipops and unicorn queefs, and that no one tries to sweep anything under the rug or ignore something in order to preserve themselves.
Rather, what we're saying is that it's despicable to do so, regardless of how often it happens or why it happens.
The first incident happens. Whoever is in charge -- whether it's Paterno or whoever -- makes the decision to preserve the dignity of the school and bury the shit quietly.
And this is why it's despicable: Anyone who values the integrity of a team that plays a fucking game over the innocence of children is fucked up in the head.
Additionally, the logic here is retardedly stupid. "We want to save the integrity of our school, so instead of pointing out the one guy who did this and showing that, as a school, we stand against these actions, we're going to sweep it under the rug and turn our heads."
That type of logic doesn't make sense. At all. Even if that is what these dumb fucks believed, I don't give a flying monkey shit. It's stupid. It's superficial. It's wrong.
I'm not going to sit back and accept the excuse that they valued the school's reputation over children. I'm not going to try to defend them by saying that they were worried about their jobs. If they didn't do anything wrong, then they shouldn't have had anything to worry about. And if they're stupid enough not to think that, then fuck them in their mouths, because their idiocy and desire for "self-preservation" really fucked up some kids in the head.
I'm having a hard time understanding why he's a greater villain than Sandusky himself. Or than any of the about a hundred people who knew something or had suspicions but didn't act either.
Umm, I don't think anyone said that he was. People are just saying that he had a part in this by not reporting it to the police. He allowed the guy to keep coming back to the facilities with children despite the fact that Sandusky's had previous charges brought and someone told Joe Pa that he was seen in the shower with a young boy and that the conduct was of a "sexual nature."
Failure by Joe Pa. Utterly and horribly. No, he didn't directly rape the kid, and he may not be considered as on the same level as Sandusky, but that doesn't make him a saint either. Fuck him in his old ass. Fuck Sandusky in his ass harder. Make sense?