Does Joe Paterno’s Statue Need to Be Removed?

Yes, but there is a VAST difference between what Zander did and what Paterno did. Zander was aware of Benjamin’s history (pre-dating his employment with the NEC), but he was NOT aware of any child having been harmed by Benjamin from the time he started filming for the Conservatory. In fact, there were no such incidents. However, that didn’t give him the right to unilaterally make the decision that there was no risk to the children. Management of the NEC should have been made aware. He failed both the children and the Conservatory and he lost his post over it, which is precisely what should have happened.

Paterno knew of a real, current danger to children in allowing Sandusky to use university property. He knew Sandusky had raped children, yet he did nothing to stop him. That makes him an accomplice of sorts to what Sandusky did. If he had forbidden him access to the university and reported him to authorities, some of those children wouldn’t have been raped. That shows an unconscionable lack of morality. And what he did was a criminal offence: blatant child endangerment.

I don’t mean to diminish what Zander did, but I do want to make utterly clear the distinction between the two situations. I do not consider Zander to be completely lacking in moral character, as I do Paterno. I do think he made a grievous error in judgement. His punishment was/is having lost a position he held and loved for 45 years. In my mind, that punishment is sufficient for his ‘crime’.

have you read the report? I am going to make two assumptions, the first is that Joe Paterno was of at least ordinary intelligence. He was told that one of his coaches was in the shower with an adolescence, spooning in the showers, playing "hiding the hoagie", and when the school officials held a meeting to decide what to do after deciding to go to the authorities with the information, after this meeting with Joe Paterno, they decided to do nothing. The Football program brings in nearly 150 million dollars a year to the school.
Let that sink in, $150 million. Penn State was second after Texas.
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I am going to make another wild assumption, that you, even with below average intelligence, should have the people responsible for these incidents, and these continued incidences be held accountable. If someone was raping your son, I would trust that you would want him protected by the supervisors of the man doing the raping, not turning a blind eye to rapes in the coach's facilities, but I perhaps I have misread you, you would not mind your son being repeated raped on a university campus, because people felt the football program was more important than your son.

As to what Joe really knew, luckily he is dead, and idiots like you can suggest he was a great man, but in actuality, he was a poor leader and poor manager if these things were happening under his nose for 20 years.

You can play stupid, I suspect you are not as stupid as you sound, but you remind me of a teenager who says, I do not know, when asked how the window was broken, standing there with a baseball glove and bat and his friends bugging out of the back yard.