Why hasn’t Michael Jackson been cancelled??

I was having this conversation with my husband the other day. We both agree that it is shocking he has not been cancelled!! He was a horrible human being and people get cancelled for a lot less than people are claiming he did. He wasn’t found guilty because he paid people off!

His family benefit. His family are culpable in his crimes - they knew what he was doing, he was warned about his behaviour several times. They defended him because he was breadwinner for the entire family - mum, dad, his adult siblings and dozens of nephews and nieces.

Listening to his songs, impressionists and going to the musical is actively contributing to the “he wasn’t convicted, his accusers lied before, his accusers were gold diggers’ narrative which in turn contributes to current victims of powerful predators being not believed. You don’t care about the 10-15 young men who e had their lives ruined, fine. But do you not care at all about children in 2026, faced with powerful and well-liked abusers, knowing they won’t believed?

i can’t believe the naivety here. He knew was he was doing. He painted himself as innocent and childlike and chose poor, badly educated victims on purpose.

Exactly.

He should be.

This.

Rock and Roll Part 1 is an absolute banger! For me it's entirely dependent on whether I like the music. I don't necessarily play it at home or own it, but will dance or sing along to it if it's played. Nothing is cancelled or censored in my house. We don't smash albums and we don't burn books. We certainly don't tell others what they should or should not listen to, read or look at. When there's only one 'correct' opinion then ideas, art, science and human progression and development stagnates and dies. "I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin." It's messier and people will get hurt, but better than a world with 'wrong think'.

You seem to have misunderstood what you were saying. You were using him being autistic to say he was an innocent and not an abuser. I was responding to that utterly false logic.

He especially liked being around aesthetically pleasing boys aged 7-13.

No girls for sleepovers.
No younger boys.
No older boys.
No siblings pairs.
No groups.
No disabled kids.
No fat kids.
No kids with facial differences.

Open your eyes.

I can no longer listen to his music, no matter how good it might be, because I believe the accusations that were made against him.

Nor would I pay to see the recent film about his life in the cinema.

People like to delude themselves with 'nothing was proven' although he paid millions out of court to alleged victims.

His music still makes a lot of money for record companies, his family and so on so a lot of people have a vested interest in keeping that going and trying to pretend nothing was wrong with him...

Yes agree, but the autistic traits of having different social wants/behaviours are relevant in the argument that he enjoyed the company of children and animals over adults.

Firstly, if you were a psychologist who diagnoses autism you would know better than to say this.

Secondly, if you work in SEN ypu have a dangerously incompetent understanding of safeguarding.

I cant buy the argument he was like the boy who never grew up, and was like a child himself....

He was an adult man surrounding himself with, being "best friends" with and sleeping with unrelated pre pubescent boys. If this was literally any other man - your neighbour, your BIL, your kids scout leader , no one would shrug and say, "oh bless, he loves kids, hes just like a 10 year old himself" or think it was fine because the person in question had an abusive childhood.

They would think it was wrong, and inappropriate on every level. Because it is.

Autistic men are disproportionately likely to be in a whole host of extremist and dangerous movements. BeIng autistic is certainly not evidence of innocence of anything.

Rubbish? Explain? Im a SEN specialist so I am fully capable of diagnosing autism thank you, and Im not the only one that thinks this about MJ.

Yes I would, but he is not me.

Good grief.

Does that argument actually make sense in your head?

He was minted and saw a way to keep himself out of jail.

If you had been wrongly accused of the most heinous crime, you'd move heaven and earth to clear your name.

And I find it offensive that you’ve decided to diagnose him with autism. What rubbish.

Oh dear.

Because he was minted and just wanted a quiet life.

Jordy Chandler has never said any such thing. Gavin Arviso, James Safechuck, Wade Robson and now the Cascio family all said he abused them.

I find it offensive that you are making things up about him, really sick. He did NOT rape children. He liked being around children, also animals he was autistic and unique, not a rapist.

Or that kid's family was offered a life-changing amount of money to revoke the allegations.

If Jackson was so innocent, why did he pay out these enormous settlements? Wouldn't he want to clear his name?

That is not true - Jordan Chandlers parents never did that.

People on here really need to educate themselves about what happened instead of regurgitating false information.

When you looK at the back stories of nearly all abusers, murderers and serious criminals they have tragic childhoods and histories. They are still normally vilified. I was recently at an exhibition of some the UKs worst murderers, including mass murderers. Nearly all had horrific childhoods. The public still despise them.

The only difference with MJ is that people like his music. So somehow being a prolific child abuser, who somehow couldn’t help it, despite all his planning and orchestration to be able to abuse, doesn’t make him a bad man but an excusable and sympathetic victim.

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