MJ: the good news thread

The blood inside of me is inside of you.

So it makes no difference for 83% of people. Good.

Polls have stalled.

Landslide.

Today there was an article about Leaving Neverland on the website that I always visit for political, social news and comments in my country (Hungary). It is a liberal website and the article was in the tone of what you say in the international liberal media: "a must see", "changes the way we look at victims", "MJ's music should be put to the trash" - bla-bla, taking the story at face value as usual.

The liberal media is fucking unsaveable from itself.

The comments, however, positively surprised me. This is a crowd with rather cynical, snobbish, white middle class people, not really what you would expect to be the MJ-fan crowd. But then I saw so many positive comments and even many comments which were very educated about the case! I didn't expect that. I have a blog in Hungary too about these allegations (I have seen some link it), but it is by far not as detailed and as organized as my English language one as my focus was on a bigger, international audience.

So there were three type of reactions. There was of course the "dirty pedo, burn down Neverland" type, but that was a minority. Mostly it were people calling out the notion that just because an artist might have done something wrong we should get rid of their art. Like said it is not really what I would think of as the MJ-listening crowd but people said he is such an integral part of pop culture, you can't throw him out and you shouldn't either. They pointed out of you wanted to throw out the works of every artist from your library or record collection who wasn't a saint then you might be left with very little. Some even came out admitting liking his songs LOL and talk about what a great, talented artist he was (like I said it tends to be a snobbish crowd, that you would expect to listen to alternative stuff and the like).

And then there were also very MANY comments which expressed doubt about these allegations, which pointed out how we shouldn't so readily believe two guys who changed their stories, who pointed to the tastelessness of this being done to a dead man who cannot defend himself, who called out the monetary motive. And there were several, to my surprise, who showed even some deeper knowledge in the case and called out the BS.

So overall I was pleasantly surprised by the reactions.

ETA: Another good thing is that here in my country it will be on HBO Go, which I don't think that many people have. Thankfully not on one of our big channels.

Absolutely did give me a boost. I was in a Best Buy today and overheard sales people talking about it. I didn't engage but both of them were telling each other how they thought the doc was bullshit. I just smiled and went on my way.