Then it again references a “tweet” about the removal of the Paterno statue which the Board of Trustrees has already denied has even been considered or talked about.

Did anyone watch the Penn State Nebraska game? Where over 100,000 gave support to the victims while supporting a team that has had nothing to do with the scandel. The fact is that it is more than appropriate to wear Penn State gear and support a system where thousands far outnumber a few bad decisions by a few personnel.

I to am an adult that was victim to childhood sexual abuse, am not a Penn State graduate, but am able to see the forest and not just the tress in this situation.

This sounds like what people did in Stalinist Russia, cut people out of the newspapers who had just been purged. Penn State had such a severe Paterno cult, now they need De-paternoization (kind of like de-Stalinization).

It has to go deeper than just painting over pictures of the former leader. They have to have a real discourse about the role of football, the cult of coaches, of “State” altogether.

I’m saying this as a survivor of childhood abuse who was more tormented by the hatred directed at me by the enabler, that the sexual predator himself. My adoptive mother was the Paterno of my life, who kept her husband’s image spotless while blaming and tormenting me for what happened – for a lifetime.

I wouldn’t want to edit her out of my history – instead want more people to know what she did. Paterno helps understand her, too – she was a control freak, too, and anything that did not fit her image of our family was deleted. Claiming she did not exist won’t do. Claiming Paterno did not exist won’t work. Denial does not work, that’s the reason he was fired, after all.