User blog comment:Zolnir/Cinder Fall (Final - The Assault on Beacon)/@comment-186.45.70.50-20140608134940/@comment-11188061-20140608162444

My advice will be for you to read through your questions and voice them outloud, and in time you'll get it.

But if you really want me to put into words, then:

1) I'm pretty sure the White Fang is too coherent to be called a cult. It's once a peaceful protest organization turned terrorist.

2) Your beloved brother fought in a war and died. However, said war is already over. Still, you're so stricken with grief that you decided to join a terrorist group and kill the fucking bastards. Then one day your boss ask you to work with your enemy and be as obedient as a dog even if he might - and did - shit talk you like the dead's more pleasurable company.

I doubt many will 'follow blindly' unless their leader gave them very good reason to.

3) A few criminals in their pocket'? We're talking about a bunch of people powerful and clever enough to challenge the most prestegious combat academy of the city. If they had any sense they should be thankful that Cinder Fall hasn't decided to burn them off the surface of Remnant yet. There's never not enough allies and always too much enemies, and Cinder Fall is not an enemy you want to make.

Not to mention that if White Fang followed that 'we're doing fine on our own!' kind of childish as hell mentality they would have destroyed themselves first long ago.

5) The Humans and Faunus fought a war among themselves. A war. A war. A war. If they had that kind of leisure to fling Dust at each other then it also mean that the Grimm wasn't even close enough a threat to distract them from their 'games'. It was already mentioned in the very first episode that they were experiencing a peaceful time, so obviously the Grimm hasn't been a threat for either races for a long time.

Also, the White Fang only saw the destruction of Dust as a great opportunity to invite the Grimm to create havoc at human territory. Who gives a shit if human dies? In fact, the more the better.