The scandal with Josh Duggar has me shaking my head. There are so many disturbing aspects to the situation, not least of which is:
a)several of the victims were his sisters
b)His family(especially his dad) just swept it under the carpet, and there has been some collusion with law enforcement, and just before the story broke, the records were ordered to be destroyed.Well isn't that quite the coincidence?
I trust there will be a investigation-on several levels-if I were social services,I would be worried about the other children who are still living at home-to say nothing of Josh Duggar's own children!
TLC, the channel that airs 19 Kids And Counting, the Duggars' show, was slow to act, and in fact,at the time the news broke, was airing a marathon of the show. It took a lot of outrage for TLC to yank the show from their schedule. The outcry was just too much.It's not clear right now whether that is just temporary or if it is going to be permanent. I would say, in terms of CYA, that they would be a lot better off cancelling the show. Initially, TLC did(IMO) a poor job of dealing with the situation.
At a guess,they were worried about the potential shit storm with all of the Duggars' fans spamming their Facebook with "Why did you cancel the show? He didn't do anything wrong!"(and a bit more about *that* in a minute!)
If you want to see how to handle a potential bad situation look at how the Food Network dealt with the Paula Deen scandal.Didn't take long for them to cancel her show..and it lead to a shit storm on their Facebook, with her angry fans complaining about Paula being fired.It went on for quite a long time.I'll never completely forgive Paula Deen, but I've made my peace with her. It's kinda sad..she's been reduced to selling candy on a faux QVC network. I kinda hope(even given her mis-steps)that she can do something better.
Now!To Josh's defenders.. "It happened years ago" is NOT a defense. But there is certainly a lot of that on the internet WRT this story. Their fans are SO blind to everything related to the Duggars..in their opinion the Duggars can do no wrong. There are several magazines(People among them) who run frequent articles about the Duggars. I wonder if that is going to change.Or are they going to continue to enable the Duggars by writing about them? I will not read People if they continue to write articles about the Duggars. I'm sure it's given a lot of people who have supported them pause.
Meanwhile, Mike Huckabee majorly has their back..says that they(the Duggars) are targets because they are Christians who are pro-life, anti gay(they had a crew member on their show *fired* because they were gay-true!).
The Duggars are sheltered, and they shelter their children(Jim Bob-the dad's-perception of New York comes from movies from the 1980's.Kinda says it all right there, don't you think? The kids are raised with warped ideas about sex, as well. And the religion they belong to basically has a "we don't really do anything about it" policy WRT sexual abuse(which is quite common for this religion-a fundamentalist sect-Quiverfull-that encourages women to have as many children as possible.Contraception is nonexistent.So is sex ed.)
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