The Penn State football scandal is the Kitty Genovese scandal of our time.
Of all the unimaginable things, can you imagine a 28 year old walking in on a child rape in progress and doing nothing to stop it?
I don’t mean to turn this into Phil Ochs Day, but Phil wrote a song about the Genovese case, Outside of a Small Circle of Friends, which applies to Penn State, which seemed not to care about anyone outside of its small circle of football friends:
Look outside the window, there’s a woman being grabbedThey’ve dragged her to the bushes and now she’s being stabbedMaybe we should call the cops and try to stop the painBut Monopoly is so much fun, I’d hate to blow the gameAnd I’m sure it wouldn’t interest anybodyOutside of a small circle of friends.
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