Comments by "Ash Roskell" (@ashroskell) on "Rolf Harris dies" video.

  1. I appreciate you taking a moment to process this moment that so many will either shy away from, or discuss in a sensationalistic, immature manner. Thank you, once again, for being our, “adult in the room.” We see so many stars abuse their privileges and take their public for granted, only to be like Icarus flying too close to the sun. But in their cases, it’s only their own lives they’re truly ruining, when they crash into the sea, as the splash settles, the waves are restored and the ocean forgets them. Only Daedalus remembers who they really were. With people like Glitter, Saville and Harris, the oily stain remains atop that ocean, keeping the shattered corpse afloat for all to see, having soiled that patch of ocean forever and threatening to stain any who swim too close. Whilst Daedalus looks down and wonders which of his creations was more ill-conceived. The deepest, longer lasting, unseen tragedy of Rolf Harris is the worry and guilt he infected so many parents, producers, colleagues, and so on, with. The sensation of being the parent of a child who sat in that group of kids on Rolf’s Cartoon Club, unsupervised, or those kids in those Teach Your Kids To Swim public information things and so on. The conversations those situations must have forced people to have with (possibly adult by now?) loved ones; the doubt; the breaking of trust . . . The unforgivable selfishness of the sexual predator who exploits his privileges to gain access to children is more chilling than any horror narrative I could dream up.
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