Joe Paterno, 85, dies in State College

[ElboRuum]

176. Who said you should celebrate anything?

I don't recall saying anything about celebrating a legacy. Joe Paterno really isn't even the point here. The point is class. And grave dancing pretty much states that you don't have it. This thread is nothing more than a bunch of barbarous "people" doing the stomp all over a person whose body is barely cold.

Because someone does X, you get to take our society's general respect for at least the immediate dead and ignore it. That's DU for you.

And unless Joe Paterno was a genocidal maniac (and I just can't wait for someone to suggest that he is that on some order) I expect people who claim to be human adults with a modicum of class to keep from doing the undertaker-two-step over his burial plot in honor of that tradition. Failure to do that means that you have no class. I wish I could say that that's simply my opinion, but it isn't, society is pretty clear on this. Only people whose 'virtues' include a overdeveloped sense of vengeance could fail to see this.

This is the sad and depressing part. I'd prefer to think of DUers as classy on the large and whole, and I'm sure most are, but this... this thread really shakes my faith in this place.