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L. Ron Hubbard made racist comments.

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https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7uug9o , In this clip Hubbard makes one of his racist remarks.

L. Ron Hubbard talking about how negroes imbue inanimate objects with personality. Therapy Section of Technique 80: Part I, Route to Infinity, 21 May 1952:

"Actually, have you ever noticed how a negro, in particular, down south, where they're pretty close to the soil, personifies MEST? The gate post and the wagon and the whip and anything around there. A hat -- they talk to 'em, you know. "Wassa madda wit you, hat?" [laughter]. They imbue them, with personality."
 
JoeMorgue said:
*Laughs* As if. Next you'll tell me he openly admitted he was going to start a fake religion to scam idiots out of money.
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Hubbard's scam is so out in the open that I guess it's too obvious to be accepted as truth by his followers. The fact that he had a deep hatred for psychiatrists and that, by complete coincidence, the villains of his religion (and of Xenu) were psychiatrists, also doesn't seem to snap them out of it.
 
The thing that makes a good scam work is not that it fools everyone, but that it stays the course and works the law of averages.

Apocrypha: I have heard that email scammers purposely use bad spelling and syntax in order to filter out people who are paying enough attention to be suspicious. You don't want to attract the clever people who'll get partway into the scam and then figure it out.

You want to focus all of your efforts on the people who are *never* going to figure it out.

Scientology is about finding a narrative that works on enough people to get the scammers paid. It would be counter-productive to draw in people who are likely to see through it and push back. It's much more efficient to give them no reason to try it in the first place.
 
Well, that's it then. His entire empire is about to come crashing down!

Seriously, from 1952? How... anachronistic.
 
theprestige said:
...Scientology is about finding a narrative that works on enough people to get the scammers paid. It would be counter-productive to draw in people who are likely to see through it and push back. It's much more efficient to give them no reason to try it in the first place.
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You are correct. They also use the technique of "front groups". These are often seemingly unaffiliated organizations that have a clientele that is down and out or in some difficulty. These types are prime cult candidates.

Scientology front groups
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientology_front_groups
 
TruthJonsen said:
You are correct. They also use the technique of "front groups". These are often seemingly unaffiliated organizations that have a clientele that is down and out or in some difficulty. These types are prime cult candidates.

Scientology front groups
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientology_front_groups
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And the point is????

This is not new information. The wingnut is dead, Other wingnuts continue to propagate his crap.

LRon and scientology are a bunch of crap.

What new thing did we all learn?
 
And now learn that White folks in the South talk to inanimate objects as well.

"Mariko (my bicycle), what's this with your chain slipping?"
 
JoeMorgue said:
*Laughs* As if. Next you'll tell me he openly admitted he was going to start a fake religion to scam idiots out of money.
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You know how most phishing emails contain stupid spelling and grammar mistakes to help filter out people who will see through the scam? Just sayin.

Eta: I see theprestige already made the same point
 
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theprestige said:
The thing that makes a good scam work is not that it fools everyone, but that it stays the course and works the law of averages.

Apocrypha: I have heard that email scammers purposely use bad spelling and syntax in order to filter out people who are paying enough attention to be suspicious.
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I've heard that too but that sounds too clever for these numbskulls.
 
Belz... said:
I've heard that too but that sounds too clever for these numbskulls.
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If by 'these numskulls' you're talking about Scientologists rather than scammers, then the only one who needed to be clever enough in this context is Hubbard himself, and he was clever enough to found his own personal mini Empire so we can probably give him that. He was certainly smart enough to apply the sunk costs fallacy to people.
 
P.J. Denyer said:
If by 'these numskulls' you're talking about Scientologists rather than scammers, then the only one who needed to be clever enough in this context is Hubbard himself, and he was clever enough to found his own personal mini Empire so we can probably give him that. He was certainly smart enough to apply the sunk costs fallacy to people.
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No I meant scammers. Since that's what theprestige was talking about.
 
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