Should the Steubenville football program and other programs whose students commit sexual assault be shut down? PursuitAce says the sports are not inherently evil, but if the students being produced by them are doing awful things instead of being upstanding citizens, it should be shut down.
This is a comment by PursuitAce on the post “Meet the Blogger Who Allegedly Complicated the Steubenville Gang Rape Case“.
PursuitAce said:
People always get the sports connections in these crimes backwards. This isn’t about privilege it’s about the responsibility that comes with privilege. Members of the football team should be at the forefront of protecting people, preventing these crimes, and reporting these crimes. That’s how you apply the lessons of the football field to bring power to your life and your community. This situation is like if you sent a military unit to defend a town in your country from an invading force. But instead of protecting the community the members killed the men, raped the women, destroyed the town and then blamed their actions on the poor hospitality of the townspeople. It’s the ultimate betrayal.
Now these people should be stepping forward to take responsibility, defending those trying to get to the truth, and fixing any and everything that may have helped perpetuate these crimes.
If this is the kind of young men that this football program creates then it can be shut down right now. It’s creating monsters instead of heroes.
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Out of curiosity does anyone know-
What percentage of rapes fall under the Steubenville/Torrington category?
Are these cases to sexual predation what assault weapons murders are to the overall gun violence picture (8% I believe)?
While it garners big press; are we giving the subject an inordinate amount of our time, effort & attention?
I agree. The coaches have acted terribly. The boys learned this behaviour from somewhere.
Compare and contrast with my ninth grade male English teacher who asked us “what do you think of rape?” Then when a friend said “It’s a bit of a laugh,” he told us what a serious crime it is, and how it’s not ok.
Well I assume that they all went to the local HS and maybe we should just pull the weed at it’s roots.
There isn’t a lot of traction in writing about the good student athletes, but they are out there.
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I agree that the sport is creating a climate of entitlement and irresponsible, selfish brutism.
But if we define rapists, offenders and abusers as “monsters”, aren’t we empowering them instead of dies powering them? They are people (in the case of Steubenville, two reckless and socially maladaptive teenage boys who were let down by parenting, coaching, and adoring fans who allowed them to think there would NEVER be consequences for their choices. Sadly, they now know otherwise. These guys aren’t monsters. They are weak teenagers who were raised without moral compasses to keep them strong.