Some behaviors are red flags, for example “isolating you from unsupervised talking to people outside the group” or “expecting you to report your private thoughts to your superiors”.
I wish we had a convenient handle for this set of red flags, and in a better world perhaps “cult” could be the word, but unfortunately in our world people mostly focus on things like “different from my group” and “seem weird”.
Some behaviors are red flags, for example “isolating you from unsupervised talking to people outside the group” or “expecting you to report your private thoughts to your superiors”.
I wish we had a convenient handle for this set of red flags, and in a better world perhaps “cult” could be the word, but unfortunately in our world people mostly focus on things like “different from my group” and “seem weird”.
EDIT: 1a3orn already said it better.