That wasn't what I said, what I said was that it seems weird to hide from uncomfortable truths rather than confront them. I echo a lot of the thoughts of Wesley Morris and Jenna Wortham's recent Still Processing episode about all this; what is the point of trying to forget how much joy this/these men brought me when they have been all around me for so long? Like Wesley signed off, I think it's better to "when you're running to the dance floor as "Billie Jean" comes on, just remember what you're running to," rather than pretend we can erase history.


Obviously if human history runs another hundred or thousand years MJ will just be some Wikipedia page, but for your and my generations he's very important for both positive and negative reasons. I think "canceling" him negates all of that, and functionally pretends it didn't exist or didn't happen rather than opening up honest conversations about what we did or didn't want to see in him and other powerful men.


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