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What's a company secret you can share now that you no longer work there? (lemmy.world)

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[-] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

I feel like there are minimum two definitions of cult, that being a high controll group like say jones town and to a lesser but still damaging extent seventh day adventists for example and just a smaller religious grouping.

[-] confluence@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This place would 100% meet the BITE standard of cult classification.

[-] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Thats what I was thinking of but couldnt remember the name, maybe I need to watch more telltale content again.

[-] HardlightCereal@lemmy.world -2 points 1 year ago

The BITE classification was invented in order to justify hatred of small religions, by taking a word that already had a meaning (cult) and attaching a second, pejorative meaning to it. It's like if I write a fantasy novel with a species of evil creatures called jews. Jew is already a word, and it's a horrific act of religious persecution to take a pre-existing word for marginalised religions and spin it into an unrelated negative.

[-] confluence@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Yes, because controlling a group's behavior, information access, thoughts, and emotions is completely acceptable. Autonomy be damned.

[-] HardlightCereal@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

I didn't justify the abusive behaviours described by the BITE model. In fact I was very clear that I disliked those behaviours, and their association with an important religious term. You should work on your reading comprehension so you can stop seeing enemies everywhere.

[-] confluence@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I apologize for misunderstanding. Can you provide a source or reasoning why you think the BITE classification itself was intended to make "cult" a bad word?

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