There have been at least two school administrators in my area who have recently either been put on leave or fired due to past sexual misconduct at other school districts, that the current district didn’t know about when the administrators were hired. I think it was just a common practice for the longest time (see also: the Catholic Church).
Good points. Maybe things weren’t all that different back then. What a shame.
You lost me in there, and I think you're ignoring the whole reason why people are suspicious of MJ.Yes and no. I don’t think it’s “normal” to us because we’re normal (relatively, right?
That’s not normal. I can’t fathom what that would be like. I understood his want/need for Neverland, because I thought “He has the money, why not give himself the childhood favorites that he never had”. I understood why he gravitated to children.. for 2 reasons- because they couldn’t take advantage of him, and he wanted to help them, because he uniquely understood what they were going thru.
There was a time when I thought the accusations could be true, but then I watched person after person come out and defend him, and I thought about the way he always conducted himself.. I realized that I believed he was innocent. When you think about his passion for goodness, a better world, the planet.. all of it, the idea that he could hurt someone just doesn’t mesh with the sensitivity he showed, in public and in private (according to first hand accounts of friends).
I think he is one of the most, if not the most, misunderstood person of my lifetime. How could we be expected to understand him though? It’s too difficult to grasp all of it. There was nothing normal about his life in our terms of what normal is. I just don’t believe that it has to equal “wrong” or “child molester”. There’s too much that shows otherwise.
Yep
Difficult to say. Are you referring to an actual jury decision or just public opinion? Or just my own opinion?
She was the first person on my ignore list too! Unfortunately, every now and then I take a peek at ignored content, and sure enough, she’s still being insufferable all over the place about every single thing.
You do also hear all these stories about people trusting their kids spending time with priests outside of church and school spaces, sometimes as far as going on camping trips alone together. I imagine no-one would go along with that now, but perhaps up until not that long ago there was a sense that certain sorts of people would never do such a thing. In that regard, I can understand how at least initially parents might have just discounted the possibility that Michael Jackson - the world's biggest pop star with a very wholesome persona - was someone they'd have to watch out for.
Oh, the irony that it should be us, the resident racists, who would resist a lynch mob of a Black man.
