When the FBI did a no-knock raid on his house when he was in Europe, he reportedly got so upset that he trashed his hotel room. They went through years of hard drives, internet history, security cameras, and hidden compartments in his home. What did they find? Absolutely nothing. He was exonerated when he was alive.

There are a lot of garbage men from that generation - Michael Jackson, Kobe Bryant, Bill Cosby, Karl Malone.

Bottom line: He was extremely talented and his music is exceptionally great. Plus, there’s no smoking gun related to pedophilia.

Does anyone really think he had sexual relationships with these kids? I don’t honestly think so. This was never determined to be true in a criminal trial. I think he had relationships that would be very inappropriate if he were a neurotypical non-famous man, but he wasn’t one. He was a celebrity kid who didn’t have a childhood, and became a very wealthy eccentric “adult” with yes-people and enablers around him. The parents of the kids were fine with it, Macaulay Culkin has said nothing ever happened, and every indication is that MJ was immature mentally, and had a close, atypical but not sexual, relationship with the kids. So he was a musical genius, and I am ok enjoying his music. I will go see the musical too. I am not ok with it because I’m also not financially supporting or enabling this man who is now dead, but rather his estate.

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Anonymous wrote:He didn’t see anything wrong with sharing a bed because he grew up with nine brothers and sisters in a 2 bedroom house.

Michael had plenty of mental health issues especially body dysmorphia but I tend to believe he was more asexual than pedophilic.
His supposed bio kids were not his. He didn’t sleep with Debbie.

I think he mentally thought he was still a kid and didn’t have sexual desire for either women, men, or kids.

I think this too and I think it was something his parents did to have him keep his young voice.

I think so too. It has not been proven that he was a pedophile.

He was very open about sleeping in the same bed with children he was not related to as an adult. Where else can this lead and the parents that allowed it should be ashamed of themselves.

I canceled him. It obviously doesn't mean anything to anyone but me, but once I believe someone sexually assaulted someone, they're dead to me. Him, Tupac, etc.

I realized he didn’t understand social cues when he danced in pajamas after court/during trial.

The judge said Michael seemed confused and childlike and didn’t even get that he was facing jail.

Maybe he is really a good actor but I don’t think so. He really acted as if he was a kid.

Something went really wrong in his development

He lived a really sad and lonely life.

Worked as a child, beaten, abused. He wasn’t interested in girls like his older brothers.

I think his dad thought he was gay or something and picked and beat on him the most because he was different.

I feel sorry for him really. Mentally, he didn’t stand a chance to become normal.

He was obviously on the spectrum.

He failed at eye contact and struggled with social cues and his father beat him mercilessly for it.

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Anonymous wrote:He didn’t see anything wrong with sharing a bed because he grew up with nine brothers and sisters in a 2 bedroom house.

Michael had plenty of mental health issues especially body dysmorphia but I tend to believe he was more asexual than pedophilic.
His supposed bio kids were not his. He didn’t sleep with Debbie.

I think he mentally thought he was still a kid and didn’t have sexual desire for either women, men, or kids.

I think this too and I think it was something his parents did to have him keep his young voice.

I think so too. It has not been proven that he was a pedophile.

Because he’s dead.

I wonder this every time a MJ song comes on the radio. But then it transports me to a certain time in my life and nostalgia takes over and I fail to turn the radio off.

I watched the documentary that interviewed his victims. Before that, I think I thought it was all just people going after a rich person's money. But I believed every word they said. And it was heartbreaking, really.

So he should be cancelled. But never will be -- he was too great of an artist.

I’m going to see the MJ musical this weekend.

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Anonymous wrote:While I see an argument about not supporting an artist you otherwise admire if said support would contribute to him monetarily, Michael Jackson is dead. Buying every song he ever made ten times each would not contribute to supporting him in any way.

Someone can be a terrible person, a criminal, a monster and still make great art. I do not get canceling the art with the artist especially if said artist can’t benefit from it. I judge art, music, and things in general on whether I like it, not whether its creator comports with my morals. Are we going to cancel Apple products because Steve Jobs who’s now dead was a jerk?

His estate which holds the rights to his catalogue still profits from his image and music.

Yes, but his estate is not him. He is dead. You are not supporting a pedophile financially since I doubt he sees any royalties in the afterlife.

The money should go to victims not his estate.

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Anonymous wrote:While I see an argument about not supporting an artist you otherwise admire if said support would contribute to him monetarily, Michael Jackson is dead. Buying every song he ever made ten times each would not contribute to supporting him in any way.

Someone can be a terrible person, a criminal, a monster and still make great art. I do not get canceling the art with the artist especially if said artist can’t benefit from it. I judge art, music, and things in general on whether I like it, not whether its creator comports with my morals. Are we going to cancel Apple products because Steve Jobs who’s now dead was a jerk?

His estate which holds the rights to his catalogue still profits from his image and music.

Yes, but his estate is not him. He is dead. You are not supporting a pedophile financially since I doubt he sees any royalties in the afterlife.