• RoidingOldMan
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    10 days ago

    We’re removing Cesar Chavez from street signs, but this biopic won’t even mention the allegations?

    I find it strange the way people are willing to ignore inconvenient details about Michael Jackson and still celebrate him. If Jackson were alive right now he’d be blackballed in Hollywood surely, but because he’s dead we celebrate? It’s a strange inconsistency.

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      10 days ago

      This made rich people very rich, Chavez made regular people’s lives better. Seems pretty consistent to me.

    • mannycalavera@feddit.uk
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      10 days ago

      Sadly he wouldn’t be canceled in Hollywood even today. He’d still be celebrated and loved. Check Chris Brown (battering a woman) and Kanye West (all sorts of crazy).

      If you can dance and sing and, most importantly, make money for Americans… then you can do anything.

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        People weren’t lining up to watch Michael Jackson when he was pale white, missing a nose, almost dropping his kid off a balcony, plus the sexual accusations. He was a cautionary tale at that point.

        His music got a boost after he died. Now that he’s dead people like to gloss over the final decade of his life. But they weren’t ignoring it when he was alive.

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      9 days ago

      I thought the allegations of child sexual abuse were made up by the families to take advantage. At least, I remember hearing they admitted to it.