I see there's a new fallacy the media loves to throw around when it comes to MJ. They are so pressed at success like the MJ Musical and that he hasn't been canceled that they now pretend that MJ enjoys some special privilege of not being canceled compared to other celebrities.
The argument, or better to say, the whining, typically goes like this one: 
It's a fallacy on so many levels. Anyone who followed the last 20 years of MJ's life knows that he's been treated abhorrently by the media. None of these people's treatment even comes close.
And people like JK Rowling haven't been any more canceled than MJ. Does she have her critics? Sure. But just like MJ's music and MJ related shows, JK Rowling's books still sell out. So where exactly is the supposed double standard?
MJ too lost endorsements and sponsorships during his lifetime. He had to pay costs of his HIStory tour from his own pocket because he didn't have a sponsor like on the previous tours.
A lot of his planned projects in the last 20 years of his life fell through (eg in areas like movies etc) because of the allegations. And that while those allegations have never been proven.
In fact, in 2005 he was acquitted, but he was still often treated as guilty by the media, and a lot of his plans became impossible to realize because of the stigma of the allegations.
That he wasn't cancelled by the audience in terms of his music and This Is It Tour, is a testament to the strength of his artistic legacy. But it's obvious he could have achieved so much more without the stigma of the allegations.
There's an attempt to rewrite history and pretend MJ somehow was unscathed by the allegations. The reality, is the contrary: there has never been a more unfairly treated celebrity. For decades dehumanizing crap being thrown at him. Media even paying people to lie about him!
And articles like the above one only further prove this point. Articles where he's being treated as guilty despite the fact that it's never been proven. Just based on one sided allegations.
These people don't even feel the need to study the allegations, but they feel qualified to write navel-gazing articles and books where they build a full thesis around the never proven premise of his supposed guilt. Presumption of innocence and due process be damned.
MJ is dead for 13 years and journalists and people like the above "honorary sociology professor" still try to cash in by dragging his name, yet they have the nerve to act like MJ somehow got a privileged treatment compared to other celebrities.
Just because a large part of the audience disagrees with the media's hate for this man and ignores their calls to cancel him, it doesn't mean he wasn't hurt (personally or financially) by these allegations, which in his case were more than likely false.
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