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Originally Posted by Lamplighter
What I'm trying to argue is that the "football mania" was the root cause of Sandusky getting away with his evil actions for such a long time.
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You cannot ignore numbers. 85% of all problems are directly traceable to top management. Management was more worried about their power. Their legacy. Their image. If the English Department had a squeaky clean image, the powers that be (ie Spanier, et al) would have done same. Because they - not football - was the problem.
Completely irresponsible is to blame the uninformed (ie university) for one pedophile case. And not demand the same violent revenge against the Catholic Church that has been doing this and worse by the thousands to tens of thousands. That is simply a double standard that no one has the right to uphold.
Worse, every Catholic knows this has been ongoiing. And did not get angry when Voices of the Faithful were saying so. Voices were even banned by the Church for only being honest. Every Catholic knows pedophilia was ongoing - and did almost nothing. Thereby all but endorsing pedophilia.
You would punish the teams and student body for what scumbag management (many from Wall Street) did? But you would forgive the entire Catholic Church for ignoring that church leaders openly did this for generations? Nonsese. The Church has a long history of Spanish Inquisitions when others are guilty of misdemenors. Why is the Church forgiven for tens of thousands of felonies?
No non sequitur here. If you make victims of the innocent in Penn State. Then you must also make victims the innocent in Notre Dame, Villanova, and Holy Cross and all Catholic High Schools. Their institutions had many more criminal priests. The crime was well known. The Pope and Cardinals did nothing. So we punish the little people? Punish the innocent?
The problem is directlyl traceable to top management. We should be beheading them all in the tradition of the church.
Church is guilty of pedophilia at the *racketeering* level. Penn State had one pedophile. Punishing all Catholics and Catholic schools (high school and college) is equivalent to punishing Penn State students and sport teams.
All Catholics knew pedophilia existed and was permitted. Most did nothing. Virtually no Penn State faculty, teams, and students knew anything about the only pedophile. So we punish them. Sound like another Spanish Inquistion to me.