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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I turn off MJ songs now.

But do you make sure you treat everything you consume as diligently?  Make sure the restaurants you eat at don't support causes you oppose?  Don't watch Woody allen or Roman Polanski movies?  Don't support any politician who does things that are morally reprehensibly per your value system?

I think it's a bit nuts to focus on MJ's purported offenses unless you are prepared to take the same hard line against everything tainted by evil in our society.  Crooked foreclosing banks?  The Catholic Church?  Heck, the Epsicopal and Jehovah's Witnesses have had sex scandals too....[/quote]

Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good, is a useful adage here.  We all make informed choices where we can. This is a case where 1) the behavior is egregious/damage is profound and 2) the choice to avoid his music is easy to make and carry out, and it’s cost-free.

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Exactly.  Avoiding MJ's music does nothing.  It doesn't stop child abuse from occurring and it doesn't stop the financial support of child abuse.  Boycotting R Kelly is a much better use of my energy.  [/quote]

Yes.  This is virtue signaling at its most profound.  But there's at least one PP who is very invested in this - it's east!  and the estate  denies the crimes!  (And I can't be bothered to take actions that might really matter.)  What nonsense.  [/quote]

I'm the PP you're accusing.

Excuse me? Where do you get off saying I'm not taking any other actions? WTH? [/quote]

the previous poster has some real issues. Number one. It is not virtue signaling to not play music if it makes me, personally, feel dirty and gross when I hear it.

two. I know the kind of advocacy that I'm involved in, but I would like to know that person's particular suggestions for what they believe constitutes action? Please, inform us about what you think " actions that matter" enails and we can tell you if we're actually doing those things.

Until then, you're just making baseless assumptions[/quote]

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