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Famous people who have disappointed/Racist Bowie

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Drabarni · 22/01/2020 13:20

I'm disappointed beyond belief, was a huge fan but no more.
Why do we find out after their death.
He was also a paedo, I hope they stop playing his music now.
Who has disappointed you?

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jamesforagirl · 22/01/2020 14:00

feelingverylazytoday Numbskull - Grin

Drabarni · 22/01/2020 14:00

I used to love his music.
I don't believe the denial tbh, he was racist to his death, according to family.
He was also Gay until his death, but people make out he wasn't.
It's awful finding out about someone you thought you knew, famous or not.
Some of his family are lovely and know what he was really like, it's Sad

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Newyeardietstartstomorrow · 22/01/2020 14:01

Who has disappointed you?
People who get their "facts" from Google. Someone said it on t'internet so it must be true Hmm
Send your record collection my way!!

Drabarni · 22/01/2020 14:04

new

His family members have told me. They should know.
I don't know his wife or daughter.

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Aposterhasnoname · 22/01/2020 14:04

Umm, so what if he was gay?

LemonadePockets · 22/01/2020 14:04

You’ve lost your marbles pal.

DollyDaydreamss · 22/01/2020 14:05

Oh. This makes me sad. I won't do it! I won't! You'll have to prise my Gary Glitter albums from my cold, dead hands

Newyeardietstartstomorrow · 22/01/2020 14:05

He was also Gay until his death, but people make out he wasn't.
It's awful finding out about someone you thought you knew, famous or not.

I think his sexuality is irrelevant to his (amazing) music, but surely you knew he was openly bi? Where does awful come into it?

Drabarni · 22/01/2020 14:06

Nothing wrong with being gay, but why lie and say that everything in your past was down to drugs. Plenty people use drugs and aren't paedo racists. The youngest was 12 apparently.
I had no idea.

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AlaskaElfForGin · 22/01/2020 14:06

His family members have told me. They should know.

What bollocks.

Besidesthepoint · 22/01/2020 14:08

He was bi and not gay. And it wasn't a secret.

bellinisurge · 22/01/2020 14:08

Nothing wrong with being gay. Many people are stupid fucking idiots when drunk or stoned. Ask Prince Harry.
Don't know where your evidence is that he was a paeodophile.

Besidesthepoint · 22/01/2020 14:09

See this is why I question accusations made after someone died. It's too easy to say stuff when they aren't around to explain to you why you're wrong. Or crazy.

AllideasAndNoAction · 22/01/2020 14:09

Good god, is this all we have to do to be outed as a Nazi now? Hold our arm in the air and be captured at an unfortunate angle?

karen I know Morrissey is a massive knobber but why is he a racist? Please don’t make me google, just be kind and tell me.

LoveNote · 22/01/2020 14:09

is this a sharon post?

Psychologika · 22/01/2020 14:09

I thought he had sex with very young girls. That alone is enough for me.

debwong · 22/01/2020 14:09

Who has disappointed you?
People who get their "facts" from Google. Someone said it on t'internet so it must be true

+1

eenymeenyminyme · 22/01/2020 14:11

Proof or just stop being silly

Besides, why deprive yourself of his music because you've 'found out' something you don't like? The only person you're punishing is yourself.

PS Don't throw the vinyl in the bin, send it to me!

LoveNote · 22/01/2020 14:11

so wait....you have actual solid irrefutable proof that Bowie was a Hitler loving,peadophile who was also racist?

you go on to say he was also gay? so?? are you homophobic or something?

have you had access to glue today?

LoveNote · 22/01/2020 14:12

why aren't you recycling that vinyl? so you aren't miss perfect after all as its being put in the bin!

SisterAgatha · 22/01/2020 14:13

So I have to google decades of articles to back up a point YOU are making, but you don’t know that this is David Bowie’s Wife.

Famous people who have disappointed/Racist Bowie
SoupDragon · 22/01/2020 14:14

His family members have told me

Which ones?

AllideasAndNoAction · 22/01/2020 14:15

I think it’s well documented that he was bi, perhaps it was an experimental phase he grew out of, along with the drugs.

He certainly seemed genuinely happily married in his latter years, long after there might have been any supposed societal pressure to appear straight, so clearly he wasn’t gay.

I know someone who had a relationship with a couple of girls as a teen/young adult and is now married to a man. In my eyes therefore she is not a lesbian. She’s bi, or was curious and just experimenting back then. So what?

SisterAgatha · 22/01/2020 14:15

The black members of his family have told you he is racist, have they? Was this in a dream?

Newyeardietstartstomorrow · 22/01/2020 14:15

Troll post. Don't call someone a paedophile based on hearsay.