![]() ![]() Plenty of organizations have managed to endure a few scandals in their long history, but what was seen to happen in the Boy Scouts was one that shook the entire organization to the core and could have ended it at one point if not for the type of damage control that was put in place long ago. Seeing a total lack of belief that the BSA is still a worthwhile organization was never bound to come since there are too many people still invested in the idea of it. To this date, there’s still belief in the BSA. The rest of us, well, we don’t have the emotional investment necessary to care. But trust in the BSA is a personal thing, and usually, the people who care the most are those who have had something to do with the organization. In other words, some will care and some won’t, and it has a lot to do with whether they’ve experienced this or if they’ve known someone that has gone through this type of situation. Others will show a mix of concern, indifference, or other emotions based upon their own experience or lack thereof, as human beings are prone to seeing a situation in many different ways and will choose how they feel about the matter based on their own experience. Some will be empathetic if it happened to them as well or will deny any empathy since they don’t want to go back to that moment. The thing about this is that if something happens to another person, then many will look at the story in a few different ways. The idea that such a thing could never happen in such an organization, that a lot of people thought of it as a myth made up by dissatisfied individuals who did not meet the requirements necessary, is kind of hard to fathom, but sadly it has happened.Ĭredit: Leave No Trace Hearing the stories of the abused makes it kind of hard to have faith in the organization any longer.Ī lot of people can and have turned away from this story since it didn’t happen to them, even if they have or haven’t belonged to the BSA at one time in their lives. But in Leave No Trace, the memes, the jokes, and the ridicule that the BSA has endured over the years are aired out yet again as the victims of various cases of abuse speak up and remind people that the things they went through were very real and that the BSA was meant to be a positive time in the lives of so many, but eventually became a running joke and a horrible trauma that some folks have never managed to get over. The Boy Scouts of America has been a longstanding tradition in some families and has been an uplifting and positive experience in the lives of many young boys over the years, some of whom were thankfully never forced to undergo the abuse and scandal that has touched the lives of others. One has to wonder at what point it’s required that an organization looks inward rather than defending itself to the world in a defensive maneuver.
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