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What are your thoughts on Michael Jackson?


Talented guy and I dig his songs. Although, an odd fellow. I've never seen such a drastic transformation as in him.

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Thought he was entitled to openly diddle little boys because he had the biggest selling album in history

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He did no such thing!

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Having 13yr old boys sitting on his lap at televised award shows, which no one can deny as they were televised, sure sounds pretty openly entitled to me
if you deny this then you clearly see only what you want to se

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Incredibly talented musician and performer. The Pepsi commercial started the sad downfall. Were it not for that accident, how different would things have turned out? He almost certainly wouldn't be dead right now. Or would he?

Anyone who thinks the evidence of him molesting children is not damning is living in a groupie fantasy world.

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I'd rather think about Marlon.

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I don't ever think about MJ. Never was a fan; he was never on my radar. However, I think it's a shame how he wound up.

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I’m not going to tell you what I think about Michael Jackson. I’m going to tell you what I feel about him.

I feel sorry and sad for him. I also feel tremendous respect. My impression is that his father was tremendously controlling of all the Jackson children and he used them to make himself a fortune. I feel it’s entirely possible that Michael ONLY felt loved when he was performing. If that were his only source of love, he would have applied all of his great gifts to his performing. The result would be The King of Pop, and an otherwise very lonely and unhappy man. It’s like what Vinny Toretto said, “For those 10 seconds, I’m free.”

Child molesting usually does not come out of thin air. It’s mostly passed from 1 generation to the next. Circumstantial evidence makes me feel it is more than likely that Jackson was sexually abused by his father. Sexual abuse makes the victim feel worthless and deficient, even more incentive for Michael to devote all his energy to his pop career. Childhood incest also puts the victim at extreme risk of becoming an abuser. The abuser is a miserable person who FEELS miserable.
S/he is wracked with shame, guilt and feelings of helplessness. The abuser takes both extreme pain and pleasure from abusing.

I feel Michael Jackson may very well have suffered from clinical depression and grief of soul. There is a quote whose source I do not know, but I think it applies to Michael and so many others who have made this a better place: “I am struck by how often the very brightest spirits are given the very darkest burdens.”

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I mostly feel pity and disgust for him. Never could stand listening to him sing. It was like giving nails on a chalkboard a musical tune.

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Michael never molested anybody.

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Some very good music, but also some serious mental problems.

I don't think he abused the kids who have claimed to be his victims, but I don't think his relationship with children was healthy either.

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He was weird. I've never seen a black man turn into a white woman.

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Everything I've heard of him paints a picture of a man who obviously was very talented in music and dance, but deep inside, he was a very damaged individual, no thanks to his cruel dad and what Hollywood did to him. He made great choices in music and creativity, and was said to have randomly done some very nice things, like donating to the hospital that housed him after he got burned making that music video; but we can't ignore what he was doing to those young boys at his retreats. I don't care what anybody says, he had no business molesting pre-pubescent boys in some sick, desperate grasp to try and re-gain his lost childhood. There is just no excuse. The stories I read were far too detailed to have been made up.

And by the way, he didn't bleach his skin. That's an urban legend. MJ had a peculiar skin disease called Vitiligo, an autoimmune disorder that causes the melanin-producing cells in one's skin to be destroyed, causing irregular white patches to form all over the body. He wore makeup to cover that up. I do think he got plastic surgery, because he would have never looked almost exactly like his sister, Janet, if he had left his adult face alone. There was also talk of him using hormone treatments to maintain his high voice, which I would totally believe.

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Again, Michael never did a thing to any pre-pubescent boys.
Thanks for having understood the whole vitiligo thing though.

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He had a bed in every room in his Neverland ranch! Who designs their private retreat like that? Who only invites young children to a place like that?

If you read the testimonies of the different [former] young boys he groomed and molested, there's no way they could be lying. All are very highly detailed, and he worked differently with each one. Their stories don't follow a single script. Those who claim he did nothing to him are either telling the truth, are very loyal to him, or were paid a lot of "shut up" money.

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"The stories I read were far too detailed to have been made up."

So naive.🙄

"And by the way, he didn't bleach his skin."

So naive.🙄

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And yet he was never convinced. Innocent until proven guilty.

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He had better lawyers.

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In that case, according to US law, still innocent.

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Definitely talented, but I think the molestation claims overshadow his accomplishments.

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