Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-14138255-20161023154654/@comment-25936766-20161027131236

ChishioKunrin wrote: MiniDaggers wrote: Blake joined the WF as a result of things she saw, it was a decision and not something she was pressured into doing or was actually born into, she wasn't brainwashed. (Just to clarify, I don't think she was brainwashed; it's just that someone (was it LiveandSound or SYUTK?) kept saying that Blake was probably brainwashed by the White Fang into thinking that Faunus are horribly discriminated against and thus we cannot take literally anything she says seriously at all) I think I've seen LAS's comments about it once or twice. IIRC, his idea was that Blake has been part of the WF since very young, practically grew up in it, and thus, she has been exposed to their beliefs and ideas and stuff, be they true or false. Practically indoctrinated.

And she did say, that she still agrees with the WF, with their beliefs, just not with their methods.

It makes sense: If you grow in a community with X values, but are taught not to criticize them, you accept them, don't see much wrong in them or try to question those values. It's like that everywhere, for both good things and bad things.