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GreenEyedMonster:

I don' think anyone who posted here really cares who mourns Jackson's death. The commentary to do with your statements was simply and specifically about what you wrote. Just to keep things on track here.

Anyway, a few points about Jackson being a "justified freak":

Doctors have confirmed Jackson had Vitiligo (which results in the loss of skin pigment). The only treatment to even-out skin tone is to lighten skin color. Even if he didn't have this condition, I'm not certain why this would make him a freak. Vain? Perhaps. Bending to a cultural stereotype of "beauty"? Certainly. Insecure? Obviously. But "freak"?

Jackson's home was a mini-Disneyland. There are plenty of people in the world who treat kids to such things, and they aren't targeted like Jackson was. Normally Jackson had underprivileged and sick kids there, and with the amount of people through his doors only two made accusations; he was acquitted of one charge and the other charge seemed to be motivated by money --- actually both cahrges were (those instances have been addressed here already).

Jackson didn't want his kids faces plastered all over the tabloids, which is why he hid their faces. Seems understandable to me.

Plenty of people have plastic surgery, use makeup, etc, but they aren't called "freak" for it as often as Jackson was. Jackson had issues with his self image. Hence why he tried to change it. But many people do this. Jackson had "issues", moreso than being a "freak" in this regard, I think. So the devaluing of him by calling him "freak" is a little harsh.

In the end Jackson was being driven crazy. This is fairly obvious if you watch some later interviews -- at least he was being driven towards a nervous breakdown. It all seemed to stem from the endless attacks he was under constantly ("freak", lawsuits, "wacko jacko", etc) and the instability of his personal life that came about due to his success and people trying to use him (the reason why Lisa Marie Presley says their marriage fell apart was due to the users around Jackson who were destroying him). And obviously being addicted to medications didn't help either.

I maintain that it was the homophobic atmosphere in the US that really kick-started the whole thing about Jackson being a "freak" (which snowballed into everything else) because he was sort of feminine, or asexual.

Yeah, Jackson seemed odd sometimes (but so do a lot of people), but all we were saying here is that he was abused, used, lied about on endless occasions, painted as a monster in the media, addicted to medications, and seemed to never have grown up (which is very understandable considering his development from the time he was 5 years old was extremely abnormal). I really feel that Jackson was a target mainly due to homophobia (especially US, and the UK to a point) that sees people like him as unworthy of humane treatment (not to mention he was also African American, and wealthy). The evidence against him never stood up to scrutiny. The other reasons cited seem pretty baseless. So what was the reason to target him so cruelly, as so many did (and do)?

Sean