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Originally Posted by thewasher418
The statement I quoted in my previous post, with the bolded part I added myself for emphasis, is not those exact words but implies it very strongly. I hate quote-fests so I won't quote it again.
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All I said was that I've never experienced anything like it before. And I haven't. Maybe if I moved to Alabama, or Texas, or other states that people threw at me, I might.
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And I think what everybody is trying to say is not that you or any Penn Stater is provincial/narrowminded/whatever, but rather that the 'mystique' that keeps being mentioned over and over- bonding alumni together, bonding the whole state's residents together, making the school an integral part of their lives whether they attended or not- is not as rare and unique as imagined. Nothing you couldn't find in Oklahoma, West Virginia, Louisiana, Georgia, Ohio, etc. And it's possible that blind belief in that not-actually-so-special 'mystique,' left unchecked, allowed such terrible things to happen. Could it happen elsewhere? Sure, because we humans can be terrible like that.
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Again, I never said it was rare.
Maybe we misunderstood each other somewhere in there, but again, it wasn't my intention to suggest that Penn State is a special and unique snowflake.
I'll leave all of that kind of talk to the handful of super-fabulous PNMs who are sure to show up on this site in the near future.
