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Yes, it's a positive development that Burger is done remember this is not just some isolated creepy scene. This is many scenes, now, a decade ago; it's 1975 Kim Fowley. This is the very architecture of music/music biz--people with power abusing ppl with less or none.
Burger deplatforming themselves doesn't resolve much. What does change things are scenes, venues, bands, labels, agencies creating atmosphere/environments that are INHOSPITABLE to abuse, not just saying "we won't work with these bands now" and think their part is done
Not just standing with survivors, but working with and providing continual opportunities for survivors to continue to work/participate in music. The professional and personal risk of naming your abuser is massive, it keeps folks silent; the risk is punitive.
So many of the Burger stories originate at shows and venues--while concert-world is shuttered right now, here's the ideal time for examining HOW venues have enabled the abuse of young folk and women, and figuring out what you are gonna do so it NEVER can happen at yr venue.
This is work that people have already been doing for years in DIY scenes, and happened pretty wide scale in Canada post Ghomeshi reckoning. You do not have to reinvent the wheel. Commit yourself to figuring out how to prevent rape at your venue.
Folks who have survived sexual abuse in the industry/scene often have so few resources and little recourse for $$ for healing, therapy. There is no MusiCares for assault survivors, no industry funds to help folks that no one protected. And there should be.
I believe and support all the folks who have come out about what they survived in the Burger scene. I believe and support survivors who are fearful and cannot come out, and survivors who are struggling, triggered, mourning and enraged to see this happening all over again.
All of this is to say: Don't look at this as *just* Burger bad guys, look at the systems and way power works in music that allows this ABUSE to FLOURISH. We should all be digging deep about our place/roles in these systems are and what we can do to stop upholding them.
