She barely survived though. Her rehab doctors said she was so sick they were surprised she hadn’t died from heart failure before seeking treatment.

I always find these kinds of comments so funny because 90% of Kesha’s discography sounds nothing like Tik Tok. She has over 15o songs covering all kinds of topics. It’s kind of stupid to judge someone positively or negatively as an artist if you only know a few of their songs.

Recording contracts are unfair to everyone. They make it easy for people with power to abuse and exploit others and make it almost impossible for the victim to leave the situation. None of those young black men you speak of has filed a lawsuit like this which is why their plight isn’t getting attention. Kesha’s…

From a PR perspective maybe it doesn’t look too good. But if a judge decides that Kesha’s contract does meet the legal definition of either slavery or Involuntary Servitude, that will work in her favor.

There’s nothing else that comes close to recording contracts. A person can be owned for life with no easy means to escape. I can’t think of any other area of work where that’s allowed. Recording contracts are the closest thing we have right now to legal slavery and Involuntary Servitude. California already decided…

Slavery is a situation in which one person owns another, can force them to work against their will, and which the owned person can’t easily leave. It doesn’t have to involve beatings or killings. We’re talking here about the legal definition of slavery not what happened on Southern cotton plantations in the past.

Calm down. There’s a legal definition of slavery that may be met in Kesha’s situation. By the way, white people have also been victims of slavery historically. It’s something every racial group has experienced. But that’s not what’s at issue here. What’s at issue is whether some recording contracts can meet the legal…

But she could be forced to pay more money than she has for breach of contract so a court may decide she is being forced to work.

Exactly this! They’re talking about slavery from a legal perspective. So whether Kesha’s situation amounts to slavery in a legal sense will depend on how the law books define slavery. California already decided that long personal service contracts amount to Involuntary Servitude although record labels labels managed…

This is a horrible comment. I don’t know if he did take artifacts or not. He denied it after. But even if he did, this is still undeserved. Everyone does stupid and irresponsible things in their lives. Young people are notorious for doing stupid stuff they regret later. You sound like those idiots who justify cops…

So his defense is that the stalking was consensual? I know that usually works for rapists but I hope juries aren’t dumb enough to believe that excuse when it comes from stalkers.

Schools don’t bother themselves with bullying either. I always find it odd that victims of sexual abuse and bullying are seen as being in the wrong while rapists and bullies are protected.

Most rapes happen in the teens and twenties. Your likelihood of being raped declines the older you get.

Very few people think that but many people do treat sexual assault as boys being boys rather than treating it as the serious crime it is. It’s known from studies that about 4-5% of males are sexual predators. Those 4-5% have numerous victims, so ignoring their behavior puts a lot of people in harms way. So while most…

If he doesn’t have a record he shouldn’t have a problem regardless of race. A white person with a record wouldn’t be able to enter this industry while a black person without a record would. The law is applying equally to everyone regardless of race. It affects more poc because they’re more likely to have records. I…

Do you know if any Irish people were ever enslaved by Arabs? I read recently about Arab enslavement of Europeans that went on up until the 1800's. The treatment of these slaves actually seemed even more cruel than the Atlantic African slave trade. The former slaves who were quoted and described their experiences were…

I recently finished Beyond Belief by Jenna Miscavige Hill. It was my first in depth exposure to Scientology. It was shocking that seemingly loving parents allowed her to have such a terrible childhood. It always amazes me when blind belief overpowers parental love.

Its also been forcing children to engage in hard labor and denying them a proper education. Its amazing what you can get away with hiding behind freedom of religion.

Every time a light skinned black woman has success on the screen or in music, people tear them down complaining that their success is based purely on white beauty standards (beauty standards that few white women even meet). The fact is Hollywood beauty standards for women regardless of race are very narrow. A woman…

To be fair, many cops who kill do so because they’re poorly trained and panic in stressful situations. Others are angry when someone doesn’t show them enough respect and lose control. Cops are rarely deliberately executing people. Half the unarmed people killed by cops are white. Plenty of middle class people have…