Chandler said he would destroy MJ, which is not an abnormal thing to say if you thought the man molested your kid. You saying you know sex abuse victims is like saying “some of my best friends are black.” Also, saying you don’t believe the victims and they’re not real victims undercuts your fake sympathy. You don’t…

HE WAS NOT FOUND INNOCENT, YOU SIMPLE FUCK! THAT’S NOT HOW THE COURTS WORK. 

So your position is:

How come Michaels’s kids are not saying he abused them if he’s such a rampant sex abuser?

Many people felt, and still feel this way about him. I think this was due to very deliberate behavior by Jackson, particularly in interviews, which made it seem like no way could this naive, weird, child-like odd musical prodigy made of hundreds of millions of dollars do what people are accusing him of. Jackson was…

oi yoi yoi dude... by all means keep thinking your idol is perfect and innocent and all that, but seriously, stop trying to convince anyone else.  You won’t.  Just keep your fan club membership up to date and stop calling those children liars, because you know what?  That’s fucking evil.

Jackson was incredibly talented as a performer, and had the added advantage of being remembered as that sweet little boy on Ed Sullivan. And he was sweet. And guileless. But he grew into a monster who hurt children right down to their souls. And the worst thing he did to them? He lied. He lied and lied and lied about…

It’s clear by now you’re one of the fans and have already made up your mind. ETA: In fact it appears you made this Kinja accout specifically for defending MJ.

Interesting that 99% of us piled on a dopey looking football coach, but a lot of people still have mixed or positive feelings about Michael Jackson. He and Jerry Sandusky used the exact same line: I’m not a child molester. I’m just a big kid who likes to hang around kids. Maybe Jerry didn’t sell enough albums to get…

I like the showing of the thought process as you talk yourself out of believing them through ‘questions.’

If instead of just have questions, you search for answers, you may just find them, as others have pointed out things like long interviews. Have you watched the Bashir interview? It’s linked in this thread.

(Worth a…

That’s the Martin Bashir documentary, “Living With Michael Jackson”

The way his face lights up when answering “yes” to the question of whether he shares his bed with a 12 year old boy who was completely unrelated to him always creeped me out. He looked so euphoric in that split second, just think of what must have flashed into his head.

He was super talented, probably one of the most talented artists of his generation. Hell, Billie Jean comes on the radio and it brings me back to being in 4th grade, and being so in love with his music. So yeah, his music holds some nostalgia for me.

I remember seeing an interview with Michael Jackson when I was pretty young. It was an hour long, and I would swear it was either Oprah or Barbara Walters who was interviewing him. What I remember quite vividly is that he had his teenage (maybe 14 or 15 years old) live-in boyfriend with him for much of the interview,…

Money is a powerful thing, sadly. It allows you to pay for silence (quasi-legally) in the face of severe crimes, or hire enough lawyers to intimidate anyone who would seek to retaliate.

We’re gaslit by this one because there are no ‘perfect victims’.  The kids were often pimped out by their own parents to Michael.  Money perverted the truth in bribes and gifts.  The same victims who took hush money in the past are now able to tell their stories with some hope of being believed.  But due to the money…

I’m just surprised it took this long. I was honestly starting to doubt that he’d actually done anything because no one seemed to be coming out with anything about him. I assumed he’d have been one of the first to be taken down after Weinstein.

Does any of this surprise anyone?  

I don’t think I can actually watch thisthis documentary. It disgust me and breaks my heart for these children. How the fuck did it go.on for so long and to make it worse.he was allowed to adopt children?!

But how are people going to keep living in the bubble of there being nothing wrong with their favorite celebrities?