Linkin Park's new vocalist called out as scientologist + Danny Masterson supporter

[kjesta]

Well, what a mood whiplash we've been through in the past 24 hours! Initial excitement over Linkin Park's announcement of new music and two new additions to band has immediately gone sour as people have pointed out that the new vocalist, Emily Armstrong, is a member of Scientology and also friend and supporter of convicted rapist Danny Masterson.

Comments

[therearewords]

Yo. Yikes. Does anyone still do any research these days or is this people just thinking Scientology isn't all that bad?

[bizzycakes]

From what I've been seeing so far, a lot of people don't seem to care and are about "separating the art from the artist" and "Scientology isn't worse than any other religion". Yikes is right.

[miharu]

Scientology goes through a lot of waves where people pay attention to the abuses, but mostly just try to downplay it by saying "all religions are weird/bad."

Back when I started protesting them (2008), I got a LOT of shit from randos saying "Why are you picking on them?" Every single time something like the Leah Remini show or Going Clear or My Scientology Movie drops, I get real fuckin' smug and hope those bootlickers are paying attention and eating their words.

[varioussaints]

Seeing that there are only an estimated 20-40,000 Scientologists worldwide was so shocking to me. The org is massively outsized in terms of influence and harm compared to its actual size. Hopefully this leads to more people going digging and seeing for themselves how horrendous Scientology actually is.

[miharu]

It's fun to watch Scientology try to inflate their numbers too - they basically claim that anyone that's ever bought a copy of Dianetics is a lifelong hardcore IAS-dues-paying Scientologist.

[kamikashi]

theres so many docuseries, maybe they need to continue making scientology related ones so it stays in peoples minds that they are shit

[ferelden]

No. Most people think it’s just either quirky or fucking weird. Most people don’t know how insidious it really is.

[evilgerbil]

I know someone who grew up in Sea Org. It was right after they started allowing members to have children. But the parents are not allowed to raise the children and they children go to something called Cadet Org. He doesn't hide it but I don't think he really talks about it. The more I found out about what happened to these children, the worse I feel.