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[eirias]

There is a front page WaPo headline right now saying something like, “Why R. Kelly’s accusers were rarely heard before now.” I am super ignorant about that part of the music world in a typical white person way and yet I feel like I heard that he was a predator for young teens around fifteen or twenty years ago! Who the hell didn’t know? What kind of crap gee-whiz journalism is this? Am I off base?

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[feuervogel]

I also definitely remember hearing about it 15-20 years ago, so this is definitely some "oh gosh, who could ever have known???" nonsense.

[eirias]

Thanks. We are not mistaken.

[cos]

I actually have this vague notion that I might not have known who R Kelly even was, fifteen or twenty or even ten years ago.

[eirias]

I think the child predation thing was the only thing I could recall hearing about him. In fact that's basically still true.

[kirin]

I don't remember for how many years I've vaguely known about it (I'm absolutely terrible with that kind of date/time recall), but this is definitely in no way new or surprising information for me.

[paperkingdoms]

"Who the hell didn’t know?"

I'm going to go with "dudes" here as the answer. /cynical