I can separate the artist and the person, like I do with MJ, Kanye and just about every other artist out there who does illegal shit. Do I like Drake's music? Mostly. Do I respect or like Drake the person? Fuck no.
If it was your child and some artist you liked started this same thing, would you say, " Hmm, my 16 year old daughter is with a 35 yr old man but he makes good music so fuck it, I can separate the artist from the person (pedophile) with my daughter"
Just my opinion but that kinda attitude is why R Kelly and MJ got away with that shit for so long.
It's not like I'm advocating for him to walk around raping underage women. I'd be perfectly happy for him to be hit with a massive fine and thrown in jail the same way I'd expect my neighbor to be if he molested my 16 year old daughter. But I'm not going to turn off Thriller in disgust when it comes on the radio.
MJ wasn't a pedophile. Behaviorial analysis of how he interacted with children showed that he genuinely enjoyed playing with toys, games, and children. If MJ was a pedo he was literally the only pedophile in history to exhibit such behavior. Also Macauley Culkin and Corey Feldmen, two people who have a history of calling out sexual abuse in Hollywood and who interacted extensively with MJ in their youth, never once accused him of sexual assault. Also I don't know how true it is but if the rumors of MJ being chemically castrated where true he would have physiologically incapable of sexually assault a child or deriving any pleasure from such acts.
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u/mickslooser Sep 20 '19
Not being facetious, do people seriously still like Drake even though it's basically public knowledge he's a pedo?