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Ozymandias:
God what I wouldn't give to live in a world where people made epic walls of text about whether or not a dead pop star touched children.

KvP:
It's not really about Michael Jackson (I wouldn't say with 100% certainty that Michael Jackson was a child molester, I'd say the statistics point to it being more likely than not), but about the cultural tendency towards victim-blaming when accusations are made, which is on display here even as attempts have been made to mark this case as exceptional. For most people questioning this tendency takes them well outside of their comfort zone, and they react with willful disbelief, or an ironic detachment that allows the awful things of the world (racism, rape, violence) to be humorous and harmless.

Ozymandias:
I must've created a new reality based on wishes and hopes.

I'm so happy.

KvP:
That goes without saying. In general our happiness largely depends on the denial of commonplace violence. That's really the burden that anybody who tries to challenge conventional ideas (that we live in a post-racial society, that rape is not common, that the institutions we support funtion for most and are oppressive to none) carries. There are always conservative minds who wonder what the point of it all is, but when you don't say these things you then you're promoting ignorance, and it's the ignorance that ends up really being responsible for so many terrible things that happen.

pwhodges:
Look, it is likely that we will never know more than we do now, or that any new evidence that might appear will be inherently less reliable than that we already have (passage of time, etc).  We also know that court processes can make mistakes, but generally do not ; though in the case of complete uncertainty, veering away from conviction of course.  If we start saying that the verdict in this case is likely to be wrong because of some statistics (statistical figures by their nature don't apply to individual cases, remember), then we are essentially throwing away our belief in the entire justice system.

I don't 'know' in an absolute sense if MJ was guilty in this case; but equally I see no reason not to accept the court's decisions and get on with my life - the court had and considered more information than I have.

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