Penn State Students, Even More Tactless, If You can Believe It

[Nuclear Unicorn]

Because, you know, riots in defense of child-rape enablers over some stupid sport isn't bad enough.

(CBS) - As the child sex abuse scandal at Penn State continues to unfold, the pain and outrage over Jerry Sandusky and the Penn State football program extend beyond the victims. A sister of one of the victims, herself a junior Penn State, relates her experience on campus, where some students are making light of the situation. The sister says that there are people on campus making jokes about being "Sanduskied."

In an interview with The Patriot-News, the sister describes her horror at what she hears from her classmates.

"I can't escape it," says the sister, whose name was withheld by The Patriot-News. "I've been going to minimal classes, because every class I go to I get sick to my stomach. People are making jokes about it. I understand they don't know I'm involved and it was my brother, but it's still really hard to swallow that."

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"I've just been really upset about it all because a lot of people aren't focusing on the victims in this," she told The Patriot-News. "And instead they're focusing on other things, like football. As much as you shouldn't blame the football players ... they should be focusing on their respect for the families and what they've been through."

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-31751_162-57322400-10391697/victims-sister-penn-state-students-joke-about-being-sanduskied/

[justiceischeap]

1. The ball players should be taking the lead on this

of course, Penn State may have made an edict that no one is allowed to talk about it.

[provis99]

2. football is a meathead conservative game, anyways.

All True Liberals only watch baseball.

[WilliamPitt]

4. Oh really?

[sharp_stick]

5. Baseball sucks ;-)

I'm reminded of the comparison by the great George Carlin

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmXacL0Uny0

[Rebubula]

11. What...

....no access to the sarcasm tag?



So...are you saying that liberals like boring, goddamned sports?

:evilgrin:

[provis99]

14. I didn't think the sarcasm tag was needed.

I should stop making assumptions...

I thought "True Liberals" capitalized would be a dead giveaway.

[athenasatanjesus]

20. Sarcastic,or not baseball still kicks footballs butt.

[October]

21. That's what George Will says.

[Leopolds Ghost]

35. Baseball is a thinking man's sport. Take it back from the RW assholes

Oh wait, RW assholes try to claim every sport these days.



Never mind that the average sports fan is a liberal.

With the GOP in charge of organized football, is it any wonder what happened at Penn State?

[Elwood P Dowd]

15. I played both sports.

Baseball from age 9 to age 21 and football in Jr High and High School. Baseball is something to watch until the college and NFL football season arrives. When it does arrive, it's no more baseball watching except for the World Series.

Now playing the two sports is different. I would rather play baseball than football. Playing in the actual game is fun with football, but 4-5 days of grueling 2-3 hour practices is a pain in the ass. Its also sometimes painful getting out of bed the morning after a game.

[roguevalley]

22. Uh, you guys are drifting here. This is about a girl being fucked

over again about her brother and the GOON FACED KNUCKLEWALKING ASSHATS that comprise PSU. Attend.

<Do I need to add a smilie?>

[melissaf]

27. Please don't add a smile.

Some are just trying to have a moment of levity that doesn't involve hating every single person at Penn State.

[abelenkpe]

3. That is so sick and sad

what are people thinking?

[gratuitous]

9. They're not thinking

However, unless the young woman mentioned in the story goes around campus wearing a sign that says, "My brother is one of Jerry Sandusky's victims," it's quite probable that none of the people she's heard make jokes about the situation mean it personally to her. Humor, in this instance, is definitely a defense mechanism, crude in its use, but meant to stave off unpleasantness. Many of the students at Penn State doubtless chose to go there in part because of Joe Paterno and the football program. The rush of recent events is a direct attack on those students' self-image and identity, and that's the source of the bad and inappropriate humor, not what happened to Sandusky's victims.

[roguevalley]

23. they are adults. they need to pull their heads out of their butts.

this isn't junior or high school. no excuse to mock rape, the fuckers.

[Sirveri]

25. college is the new junior high school. Not that that excuses it.

[Leopolds Ghost]

26. Excellent post. n/t

[Dawson Leery]

6. Football.....no big deal.

Dogs too play with balls, and they're cute, unlike the steroid junkies.

[Nuclear Unicorn]

16. I never really liked football. My dad watched it and yelled at the TV a lot

That kind of made it unfun.

My in-laws, however, made football fun. They had a blast no matter which team played which way.

[librechik]

7. honor system? please

college sports are so corrupt because of this kind of self indulgence and ostrich-like behavior. It used to be an honor to be involved in sports, and good sportsmanship and uprightness were required to participate.

I suppose that's all a thing of the past.

[WI_DEM]

8. I wonder if donations to the college will dry up due to how the students are preceived

(and I know it isn't all but the vocal) as being insensitive to the true victims.

[TheWraith]

10. These fucking people. nt

[gkhouston]

12. It's a form of denial. Telling sick jokes and focusing attention

away from the victims is a way to make it seem less real, less threatening.

[Book Lover]

13. People like me were told, "Oh, but participating in sports *builds character*"

Well, now we see the kind of character it builds.

[Dawson Leery]

18. +1

[joeglow3]

36. Aren't prejudices and stereotypes fun?

[seabeyond]

17. just the pornification of our world. all is off the table. a free for all. nt

[Occulus]

29. Keep it in the other thread. This has nothing to do with porn and you know it.

[kestrel91316]

19. Bullying by proxy. The people joking about it probably consider the

molested boys to have been gay and therefore deserving of whatever happened to them.

Of course, they are blind to what kind of legitimate sexual deviant/criminal Sandusky was.

[Blue_In_AK]

24. I want to know how many of those rioting students

have been arrested? Any? As many as at Occupy protests?

[Ilsa]

28. I'm hoping that young lady will consider transferring to another university

where people believe that child rape isn't a joke. Stop giving Penn State her money. I hate that the burden is on her, but these people are buttheads and I'm afraid she'll never be able to get away from their insensitivity. Yes, she could be outrageous and stay and fight with them, but she needs to consider the cost personally.

[melissaf]

31. Some students don't have the money

to transfer. Some don't want to go far away from home. I'm guessing that there are stupid fucks on all campuses across the country making similar jokes. Maybe having someone come forward for her would start a discussion of why these jokes are so painful and awful. Many at Penn State might be able to support her more than elsewhere, since many Penn Staters are hurting about this whole thing, too.

[Ilsa]

38. I agree about the money thing and staying close to family.

I've had to make those decisions for myself when it came to college.

I wonder if she's evaluated it as an option, that's all I'm saying.

Let's hope her friends and others can rally behind her and give her the support that she and others need so they don't have to take on the monsters and insensitive people alone.

[tuckessee]

30. I believe it's called Ped State University these days. n/t

[melissaf]

32. And I'm sure jokes like this

make the victim's sister feel MUCH better than all the other awful jokes...

[tuckessee]

33. It's no joke.

Just ask the victims and their families. Your hometown is a cesspool of child molesters. Deal with it.

[melissaf]

37. Where do you live?

Saintsville, USA? I'm sure you have your share of child molesters in your hometown, too. So maybe we should wipe your hometown off the face of the map, along with everywhere where a child molester/rapist/criminal exists. How'd that work for you?

[AngryAmish]

34. Where they don't separate the men from the boys.