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In reply to the discussion: If anybody is wondering why I am such a hard ass about PSU and Paterno, [View all]Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)You are damn well entitled to be hard on Paterno...he betrayed hundreds of powerless, helpless children, and he acted like he had divine sanction to do so. Even worse, people all over Western Pennsylvania and the nation disgraced themselves by rising in Paterno's defense...as though a winning college football team was more important than protecting the most vulnerable among us all from abuse and misery.
Paterno can rot in somewhere WORSE than Hell, as far as I'm concerned...so may everyone else who was like him, everyone who ever knew of something like this and deliberately LOOKED THE OTHER FUCKING WAY!!!!!!!
Bastards...all of them...all of the powerful enablers of abuse...
No amount of hugs and sympathy can make up for what the victims of those they protected went through.
I only hope that, in time, you can find SOME healing...because that's the only possible victory those who went through what you went through can ever have over those who inflicted your pain.
I'm so sorry and so very very very angry for the experiences you all had. You lost your childhoods and parts of your souls. Please, in whatever way you can, be well.