• Awoo [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    2 months ago

    What is the opposite of a personality cult?

    An anti-cult so to speak.

    There are a lot of these anti-cults and a good useful single word that can describe the behaviour would be useful in counter-attacking it.

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      2 months ago

      I think “anti-cult” may bring up images of “opposite of a cult” which isn’t quite what we want. “Hate cult” might be better, a cult built around the hating of a person or idea instead of worshiping it.

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        2 months ago

        Hmmm not really what I’m going for. Need a more technical phrase for it, and using the word hate in regards to an individual rather than marginalised groups is just going to immediately create resistance.

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          Yeah, that’s true. It is probably too strong a word and would colour people’s opinions too strongly.