Haha, back then he used to frequent Fridays at lunch hour with Mel. That’s when the DirecTV thing went down; they really tried to scheme it that he was the mastermind, and all he did was pay for the card encoder. I also totally got my DTV cards from his girlfriend's brother. 

Media: please stop asking celebrities to weigh in on issues like child molestation etc. They’re mostly weird, they live in their own cocooned bubbles, and have absolutely nothing of any value to say.

Yeah, fuck you. Get help. 

Yeah, that’s my point though. There were necessarily other people involved in the logistics of keeping the abuse hidden. Do you think he was arranging his hotel rooms for himself on tour? Personally telling hotel staff to lie to the parents about why their rooms were getting further and further away over time? Installi…

Yeah, while I can’t imagine that there aren’t some third parties who could corroborate some of the accusations, the two victims and their parents in the show outline very specifically the logistics of how he physically and psychologically kept the sexual abuse hidden. I mean, he set up a fucking audible warning system.

“there is NO WAY that at least some people around him not only knew exactly what was going on, but also actively enabled it all...”

If you have to search for a recognizable user name, the safe bet is trolling. Topics like this bring them out in droves.

Counterpoint, many believe he did these things because they are survivors of child sexual abuse.

Part of me wonders if it has to do with global sex trafficking.

I’ve noticed the weird syntax too. May be Russian bots...and I am only half joking.

also, i think the majority of humans, americans especially, are just dumb and don’t engage in critical thinking.

Watched most of the doc last night and it’s pretty chilling. I have complicated feelings about it, but I believe these victims’ stories. More to your point, this morning I remembered the Chappelle’s Show skit that, especially in retrospect, highlighted (intentionally, I think) the general public’s willful ignorance/…

Makes sense especially if they see aspects of their abuse present in what Michael is doing in the documentary.

I think the sad truth is that a lot of his defenders are also victims of sexual abuse in their own lives. They have to call it a lie otherwise they have to come to terms with what was done to them.

We all saw Michael with them kids and knew it was creepy and problematic AF.

Michael lost me when he started bleaching out the African part of himself. There was never a doubt in my mind that some catholic priest shit was going on between Michael and those kids. And much like R.Kelly, some of us went into denial.

What terrifying are the people still defending him. Every article I read about this documentary fills up with people defending him (with some pretty odd syntax). I don’t know what the point is of that but his defenders are hardcore.