Y'know, it's interesting to me. People who defend MJ have no problem attacking the victims themselves and pointing out inconsistencies in their testimony and all that. But yet, they seem much more reluctant/hesitant to directly attack the parents and tend to mostly stay away from that when you would think, using their logic, that if anything would make their cases stronger--that the parents are terrible, so it only makes "sense" that their kids are terrible and are just liars, etc, etc, etc.
And I've been trying to make sense of that, why they mostly stay away from that for the most part and try to keep the spotlight on the victims and their "lies." And that too has just clicked for me. Because they might not realize it themselves, not consciously at least, but attacking the victims in such away would actually just reveal just how devious MJ was about all this, and how guilty he was.
Because, just thinking about it, it only makes sense the parents would be exactly like those individuals. As if hey were good parents, they would have kept their kids far, far away from MJ. It adds credence to the victims' stories that their parents are in fact just like that, because if they were just good parents, it would just raise questions about how they let all this happen in the first place, if they're such good people. That they're not, that they're who they appear to be instead is perfectly consistent and makes perfect sense.
And more than anything else, it makes perfect sense that those are exactly the type of parents that MJ would be on the hunt for and prey on to get access to kids in the first place. As anyone not like them would have noped the fuck out of there. MJ clearly knew exactly what to look for, exactly what to prey on, exactly the type of weaknesses to capitalize on to get access to these kids to begin with. Just like with the kids themselves, it's quite clear that MJ had a "type" when it came to parents as well to maximize his chances of getting access to these kids in the first place.
And that's why most of the defenders direct most of their ire to the "lies" of the victims and kids, because even if they don't realize it consciously, even if they don't exactly know why they're so hesitant to pile on to the parents too much to try and help "strengthen" their case of MJ's "innocence," it's because whether they realize it or not, doing so would make MJ just look that much more devious and guilty, because it directly raises a fundamental question that's certainly at the heart of this and goes overlooked a lot: what exact type of parents would let all this happen to begin with, what type of parents wouldn't see all the alarm bells or would hear them but ignore them anyway, what type of parents would let their children get anywhere close to MJ the first place?
One's exactly for those, for exactly for the types of reasons that are mentioned/heavily implied in the documentary, and who they reveal themselves to be, through both their actions and inactions and personality and just everything about them. It makes perfect sense that that would be what they would be like, and that MJ would prey on exactly those type of parents to get access to these kids in the first place, and the more they attack the parents if anything the more obvious they would make that. And that's why, even if they don't realize it themselves, that's why they can't attack the parents too strongly themselves because these individuals being terrible, terrible parents only makes MJ look that much more guilty, not less, and so that's why they have to at least kinda-sorta avoid treading on that too much, and I just can't believe all of this is just clicking so much now myself, because it all just makes so much sense and there's just no other way I can see it now. You just can't make that up and fake that stuff, not to that level, not across multiple incidents, it being the same-pattern and same tell-tale signs. It all points to one thing, MJ's guilt, and that's why they have to stay away from that whether they themselves realize it in those terms or not.
