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The founding manager of rock band Evanescence claims he was fired after reporting that Tait assaulted him. An Evanescence co-founder denies he was fired for that reason

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[–] Draegur@lemmy.zip 43 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

ID verification won't protect anyone from rapists like him.

But it just might protect PREDATORS from CONSEQUENCES by suppressing public knowledge of their crimes.

Jesus fucking Christ we need to riot.

[–] Glifted@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago

We need to do more than riot

[–] aceshigh@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

Yeah. How very predictable. At this point if I hear a loud Christian, I just assume they’re doing something really awful.

[–] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 19 points 3 days ago

So again not drag queens. Always the ones we know do this.

[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 17 points 4 days ago

When I was young, I went to several concerts for DC Talk (his band at the time) and the Newsboys (the band he became the frontman for).

While I'm still religious, I've since become an outspoken critic of corporate Christianity. Having a bunch of rich people singing pop songs to arenas full of people paying hundreds of dollars each with million-dollar lighting systems spotlighting the singers doesn't feel very humble and spiritual.

So it's fair to say I already had issues with this dude for profiteering of people's faith. With the newest revelations, I'm shaking with rage. This assholes and those who hid his actions pretended to be faithful servants while destroying lives and raking in profits and praise. They pretended to be exemplars of goodness so they could establish implicit trust, then used that trust to violate others.

Fuck them all.

[–] sylvieslayer@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Jeeeeezus Christ. I'm printing copies of this article, taping them to bricks and launching them at anyone who tries to accuse the queens or queers of this shit