Why hasn’t Michael Jackson been cancelled??

@PestoPastaLife ”To a greater or lesser degree, people like MJ, Jonny Depp and JK Rowling have all fallen on the “right” side of that line.”

err, JK Rowling? You are dumping JK Rowling in with wife beaters and pedophiles?

So was Casey Anthony.

As other posters have pointed out, he was acquitted of the charges against him .

Agreed. People who say hateful stuff about victims revolt me.

Exactly, two things can be true!

I accept the verdict.

And I also believe he was very likely a child abuser.

These are not mutually exclusive concepts, by any stretch.

Definitely agree. They played his music at a children’s event I went to and it made me feel sick.

Anyone who thinks MJ’s behaviour was fine gives off serious red flags and I’d not want kids around them.

Because he was found Not Guilty! Whatever you think of him a court of law found him not guilty after a long trial. If you are unable to accept that verdict then what's the point in having a trial?

I don't know if he was 'a wrong un' but I do know that you don't know what happened and we have to trust that the courts had more than enough evidence. There's no reason to 'cancel' him.

And comparing him to others, Gary Glitter was found guilty. Jimmy died before a trail. Neither were found not guilty.

There are some weird fucking takes on this thread. It's amazing what people will accept just because someone was talented.

Let me put it this way, would you be happy with your young children having a sleepover with a random bloke down the road, just because his house was filled with things children enjoy? Of course you wouldn't.

He's at worst sexually abused children, and at best is a creepy groomer even if it wasn't sexual. Stop defending him.

The two idiots on the Neverland documentary can’t even get their timeline in order, hence the judge sent them packing on more than one occasion.
False.

Whether you believe in the accusations or not, telling lies to undermine the accusers is not a good look.

It’s still a fashion which means it will die out. A lot of his popularity depends on nostalgia- particularly for men who were teenage boys at the time- and they are on longer the target market for music.

They still wouldn’t though would they even if it was popular.

Jim'll Fix It is outdated though and most children today would find it boring as they wouldn't know the famous people that children back then wanted to meet.

Young people are getting into him now though, it's not just squeezing money out of people who grew up listening to him.

The publishing (songwriting) royalties will keep flowing for most of his children's lifetimes.

Right but we wouldn’t let kids watch Jim’ll Fix It though would we?

He’s dead …. People are listening to his music. Not letting him bath their children.

This is nonsense.

MJ music is on its last legs for profitability and so the PR machine can force people to overlook it They are just squeezing the last 10 years out and then he will disappear and then when the rights run out the narrative will change pretty swiftly.

Music is very fashionable but films and books are different as they endure for longer and can be reimagined.

Do you remember the crazy/hot scale in HIMYM?

There’s a similar scale for “bad person”/talent. The more talented you are, the worse a person you can be while remaining culturally significant/relevant/uncancellable.

To a greater or lesser degree, people like MJ, Jonny Depp and JK Rowling have all fallen on the “right” side of that line. Roman Polanski is an interesting case demonstrating different cultural perceptions of where that line falls, but it’s the same principle.

There is plenty of evidence outside the Chandler case to demonstrate that MJ was a manipulative predatory paedophile.

I don’t care that people still listen to his songs- I have a problem with them thinking that pre-pubescent boys would be safe around him.

I'd have thought it was pretty obvious that this is a discussion forum, and I'm commenting on what I see.

Clearly touched a nerve.

Such an intelligent and insightful contribution.

Honestly, why bother?

My God, some of the recent posts in here...

How do people get through life being so fucking gullible?

The man was extorted by a desperate Hollywood dentist in debt (Evan Chandler - who has since killed himself). His insurance paid them to keep it out of court, MJ had no choice. He wanted to take it to court to prove his innocence. Then of course followed another accusation… and another…. Because they all thought they’d get a pay off. If you watch and read everything, there are far too many holes in their stories. The two idiots on the Neverland documentary can’t even get their timeline in order, hence the judge sent them packing on more than one occasion. I find it hard to believe, when not one single person has solid, watertight evidence or witnesses… if he was that evil, why did the parents of said victims accept cash? I’d want him hung, drawn and quartered if he’d abused my kids.

He's dead? No need.
Also nothing was proven, law enforcement went through everything he owned and found no evidence whatsoever of anything untoward.
He was found not guilty.

But there were things that would say otherwise... The book of naked young boys in house for one.