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I was in a cult,” says Deborah Frances-White, a former Jehovah’s Witness. Often the “men at the top”, the religion’s governing body, would tell the followers that a new thought, a “new light”, had emerged from God. It had to be accepted, immediately, as if it had always existed.
This unwavering devotion to an ideology is not too dissimilar to where we are today, she says. “We’re not allowing for any pluralism and we’re not thoroughly discussing things. The internet is not looking for complexity or nuance. It wants a hard line.”
Frances-White, 55, is a comedian and star podcast host whose show has hit more than 100 million downloads. She has a decades-long portfolio of (largely) comedy writing to her name. There was stand-up,
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