I can't imagine that it's not the case, but the one thing I wanted when the allegation came out and still want now that it has been recanted, is most likely what the Sesame Workshop wants, which is an announcement that, whatever actually did happen, happened far away from the children's show and that only Kevin Clash has ties to Sesame Street.
@9 - Sure, but now One Million Moms are going to throw a tantrum that a gay man is allowed to talk to children with a puppet. They will stamp their mom-feet and furrow their mom-brows and hiss about Christian values and stuff. It'll be epic, sure to take down Sesame Street forever.
I fail to see how this is "worse", unless you're talking about how the culture of accusations has turned into a dangerous game with people making false claims in an attempt to seek attention or destroy someone's life.
That is not "worse"...anyone who has a kid who grew up on Elmo knows that having Kevin Clash's name cleared of something is illegal is not "worse," it's "better". The only thing I'm worried about is the backlash from certain parts of our country now that they know he's gay. But on the plus side--one more ultra cool person the gay team can claim.
Well in any case, there's certainly a lot of memetic-style damage here.
I wonder if some day the technology would be sophisticated enough to backtrack the chain of aspersions and make each and everyone who contributed on the web liable in some kind of reverse class action lawsuit, where a single person essentially sues a group because of harm.
The accuser's identity isn't known. I have to wonder, if "he" was a "she" if the accuser wouldn't have been tracked down and lambasted by now. Even on Slog, "she" would certainly have been called a lying, exploitive slut by comment 20 of this thread, even if her accusations had merit. But a male accuser whose accusations are false gets treated with kid gloves in comparison.
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Arsenio Hall (remember him?) used to do a routine called "Things That Make You Go 'Hmmm...'". Follow:
If you keep up with news from the UK, the BBC is currently in deep shit over revelations that one of their high-profile DJs/children's show hosts/British eccentrics, Jimmy Savile, was apparently a serial and aggressive pedophile with a taste for pubescent girls (and a secondary taste for boys of a similar age.) Hmmm...
The right wing in the UK (with plenty of support from commercial operators like Rupert Murdoch) has been agitating for decades to have the BBC defunded and/or privatized. Hmmm...
Some of the most right-wing media in the UK have been blaring headlines about other alleged pedophiles in the BBC (most if not all previously closeted gay men who are conveniently dead and can't sue for libel.) Hmmm...
Back in the USA, our right wing has been agitating for decades to defund or privatize public broadcasting (well past the extent that it's been privatized already.) Hmmm...
Kevin Clash (thanks to that documentary) is one of the more high-profile performers on public television. Hmmm...
You know the habit American television has of adapting or copying British TV series and usually fucking the process up royally? I can't help but wonder if we've just seen the same thing in real life.
@22 - Careful, some of those organizations have been known to re-re-write your re-written letters if they catch you saying something they disapprove of.
Oh. Wait.
Never mind.
Seems much better to me.
It is like just a hint or allegation of this stuff even when no law has been broken is enough to send people into a frenzy...
I'd bet the backlash, if any, will come from the mouths of men.
Well in any case, there's certainly a lot of memetic-style damage here.
I wonder if some day the technology would be sophisticated enough to backtrack the chain of aspersions and make each and everyone who contributed on the web liable in some kind of reverse class action lawsuit, where a single person essentially sues a group because of harm.
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If you keep up with news from the UK, the BBC is currently in deep shit over revelations that one of their high-profile DJs/children's show hosts/British eccentrics, Jimmy Savile, was apparently a serial and aggressive pedophile with a taste for pubescent girls (and a secondary taste for boys of a similar age.) Hmmm...
The right wing in the UK (with plenty of support from commercial operators like Rupert Murdoch) has been agitating for decades to have the BBC defunded and/or privatized. Hmmm...
Some of the most right-wing media in the UK have been blaring headlines about other alleged pedophiles in the BBC (most if not all previously closeted gay men who are conveniently dead and can't sue for libel.) Hmmm...
Back in the USA, our right wing has been agitating for decades to defund or privatize public broadcasting (well past the extent that it's been privatized already.) Hmmm...
Kevin Clash (thanks to that documentary) is one of the more high-profile performers on public television. Hmmm...
You know the habit American television has of adapting or copying British TV series and usually fucking the process up royally? I can't help but wonder if we've just seen the same thing in real life.
Hmmm...