When attractive consenting white people treat each other like shit in a private club for rich white people, it’s a cult?
As someone raised in an actual cult that abused minors, destroyed the fabric of my family and generations of finances, I gotta say “nah”.
These are over privileged assholes desperately trying to reframe their shitty adult decisions. They wanted to pay a steep social price to be part of an exclusive club, and that’s exactly what they did. Until it sucked.
LOL cult. Like Kali brainwashed you. Get fucked.
It was absolutely a cult.
"Starting with reports by investigative journalist Frank Parlato in June 2017 and bolstered by an October 2017 article in
The New York Times, details began to emerge about
Dominus Obsequious Sororium, a "secret sisterhood" that started in 2015 within NXIVM, in which female members were allegedly called slaves,
branded with the initials of Raniere and Mack, subjected to
corporal punishment from their "masters", and required to provide nude photos or other potentially damaging information about themselves as "collateral". Law enforcement representatives have alleged that DOS members were forced into
sexual slavery.
Sarah Edmondson, a Canadian actress who had been an ESP participant since 2005, said that she left NXIVM after Mack inducted her into DOS the previous March at her Albany home. Edmondson alleged that participants were blindfolded naked, held down by Mack and three other women, and branded by NXIVM-affiliated doctor Danielle Roberts, using a
cauterizing pen. Appearing on an
A&E television program about cults, Edmondson provided additional context for the use of the "collateral" concept, saying that it was used in innocuous forms from the earliest, outermost stages of NXIVM in order to acclimate victims—for example, collateralizing small amounts of money that one might forfeit if one did not go to the gym one day. The
Times later reported that hundreds of members left NXIVM after Edmondson went public about her experience."
Maybe read up on things before you go and pretend like multiple women weren't tortured both mentally and physically.
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