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What disgusts me is that Jackson's death mania glosses over his sexual improprieties (whether full-blown rape or not) with children.
I think the first poster hit the nail on the head with the label "grief porn".
Still I expect a bunch of breathless idiots like "Peter Joshua" cropping up here all the same:
"Good god, Is there anything more disgusting than someone who insists on the supreriority of their grief?"
Back here in reality, people killed indiscriminately by the American war machine are substantively more due pity and grief than a recklessly self-destructive entertainer.