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Bro. That’s such a vague statement with no context but I’m gonna break it down for you later lmaoooo. No one is saying random ass adults should be around kids unsupervised and without any trust/relation built. BUT CONTEXT MATTERS HERE. The fact here is that Michael WAS TRUSTED by these people who saw him as family. And the man preferred to sleep in a fucking sleeping bag or on the floor! He befriended these entire families not just the children. So let’s remember all the details and not just have selective memory, okay? Michael didn’t invite kids into his room and he knew these children through friends, family, or through business. And he is not the first or only man to act fatherly or like a big brother to children. That’s not a crime dude. That old ass “Michael Jackson sleeps in beds with little boys” headline has got you in a damn chokehold doesn’t it?? Propaganda brainwashing.

And now let’s get real. Michael Jackson was never a threat to society. If anything, he united the world through his music and only preached about spreading unconditional love and compassion. He was morally good for the public. But he was a threat to the white American media machine. And him being a humanitarian and wanting to fucking heal the world doesn’t sell. So the used ANYTHING they could to ruin that reputation. And what’s something that can easily be twisted into something sexual and criminal? Being in any proximity to children, especially as a black man. While the real predators were white men in suits in hiding, the world pointed its fingers at the sparkly man who built an amusement park for sick and underprivileged kids. It was so easy for them to create this caricature out of someone trying to heal their inner child, while also advocating for kids. He was a black man with a soft voice, a skin condition, and who didn’t fit their bill for what a black man in America should look like. So they brainwashed a whole generation with this idea of him being a weird predator. All for profit.

Also- Western cultures associate beds with sexual activities. Michael didn’t think that way and made it very clear that he viewed a bed as a place to sleep, and it’s society that wanted to believe it’s something sexual. Let’s not forget that literally how Michael was raised in a big ass family, sharing beds and often sleeping at other people’s houses. Though it caused backlash- Michael repeatedly would admit to allowing kids to sleep in his room but not for criminal reasons. He was so vocal about it because he GENUINELY WAS NOT DOING ANYTHING WRONG OR VIOLATING BOUNDARIES. He had NOTHING TO HIDE. And interviewers used that against him to act like he was bragging about it. In reality, he truly didn’t see anything wrong with what he was saying and that’s not his damn fault that people twisted his words to seem immoral.

He never invited kids into his bed, they wanted to be around his safe energy and the parents gave permission and were allowed in the damn rooms themselves. Michael’s room was a communal place for anyone to hang out and fall asleep. Nothing more.

Also: Michael felt that it was his divine calling with his platform to protect and care for ALL kids, so him being around them all the time was the perfect storm for tabloid journalism to attack him. He had a terrible male figure in his life so I would understand why he felt so compelled to be a protective figure for all children. Michael expressed directly how extreme trauma and the robbery of his own childhood made him empathetic to the suffering of ALL kids and their psychology through development. “I feel their pain.”

He quite literally did not see children as anything other than innocent human beings and the world couldn’t fathom that a man could be around kids and NOT abuse them. While it’s socially considered “different” for men to be nurturing towards kids and allow them to fall sleep in their room- it’s NOT criminal by default and anyone that calls him guilty just based on sleeping arrangements aren’t looking at the nuances of his life. He didn’t live in the same reality we all did and he is not guilty just because YOU think he’s weird. Can you possibly consider that just maybe Michaels brain didn’t have the ability to think in that disgusting way??? As Michael said, “They’ve never been where I’ve been mentally.”

Michael viewed everything from a point of love and innocence when it came to children as a response to his own childhood trauma. Social boundaries and rules are a very grey area, especially when looking from the outside. And that’s what most guilters forget, is context and nuance. Now tell me why a literal musical genius and intelligent ass man with decades of media experience is going to purposely draw attention to himself in a bad way and admit to allowing kids to sleep in his room if he was guilty? Why would he want to lose his entire legacy over that?? He explicitly said if the parent trusts them and knows them, because that’s literally the context of his own situations! He knew these entire families and had a level of friendship or relation with them.

Because of his own upbringing, he was extremely empathetic to children’s safety and their happiness- making him LESS likely to harm a child than some random dude down the street. His unique relationship to childhood (literally lived a life that no one else in the world can relate to on any level) and the isolating bubble he lived in automatically makes him different from just any “other dude”, so we can’t really hold him to standards of what “normal” is. He was very vocal that the only thing he was guilty of was trusting the wrong people.

Lastly, even IF society (like you anon) views certain things at face value as weird or different: it doesn’t make him a criminal. If that was the case so many other people in this world would be locked up for the same damn thing. Y’all can’t stand that Michael was actually a man with a moral conscience. Period. “Sharing beds with kids wasn’t a good look” yeah well the media found a way to demonize him for every damn thing he did, regardless of the specific context of the situations. They would accuse him of being a predator even just standing NEXT to child.

THIS MUSHROOM