# Bricker fooled me for too long

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**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [November 12, 2012, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-fooled-me-for-too-long/640835 "2012-11-12T22:46:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![gamerunknown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6bbea6/32.png) [@gamerunknown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gamerunknown)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2012, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-fooled-me-for-too-long/640835/291 "2012-11-16T00:39:55Z")

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> [@Fotheringay-Phipps](#):
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> I agree with your “of course” and your “insane and wrong”, but not your “everyone already knows to be true”.
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> In fact, I would estimate that 75% of the posters to this thread are in denial about this very matter.
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> I do agree with those who say if you’re a conservative and post on this board you’ve got to be prepared to take some abuse. But there’s no great harm in pointing to this issue every once in a while either.

To be fair, you also think that posters in the Paterno thread would have “lynched niggers”.

> [@It's time to officially Pit Joe Paterno and the Penn State football program.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-to-officially-pit-joe-paterno-and-the-penn-state-football-program/602167/526):
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> And yet, for some reason the law as written specifies reporting to one’s supervisor as one of the proper courses of action.
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> Even more so in this case, as JP did not himself witness anything and could only relay what he had been told by someone else.
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> I appreciate that there is a contrary view in this matter, and there are intelligent people who disagree with me. But for the most part, those calling for heads are nothing more than a frenzied lynch mob. In other times and places it would be obvious to these people that we need to burn the heretics, hang the witches, lynch the nigger, blacklist the commie-lover etc. etc. And it would be obvious to all these people that this is clearly the only proper course of action and it’s amazing that anyone could disagree about how forcefully we need to deal with these dangerous threats. And look how everyone agrees with us - it’s only a few fools or evil people who disagree.
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> As previous, IMO JP did nothing wrong (unless he knew more detail than what’s been made public so far). What’s immoral was for the university to fire a guy to whom they owed so much and for so long over some passing outrage.
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> But them’s the breaks for people in public life. Public opinion is fickle. I once saw a good line from a British politician whose career was brought down by some scandal. He said “it was a tempest in a teapot, but in politics we ride paper boats”. Doesn’t make it right, but that’s how it goes.

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