• Kraiden
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    5 months ago

    Recently found out about https://elan.school/ which ended up being run by ex “students.” It’s not the same thing, but there are parallels. Conversion therapy is essentially brainwashing at it’s core, and I find it fascinating (in a horrifying, train crash, can’t look away, kind of way) that in both cases, ex members become involved in perpetuating the horror.

    eta: I agree it does not absolve them

    • Flying Squid
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      I’m on chapter 71 right now. Just an amazing story. My heart goes out to all the former Elan kids, and there are plenty of abusive places like Elan operating today. And many kids are sent to them to get the queer forced out of them, even if the school doesn’t officially practice any form of so-called “conversion therapy.”