Silence is complicity with those who would ridicule, oppress, or devalue you. We depend on our community, peer and familial support networks to support us through challenges

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Pro: The oppressor's strength depends on your silence.

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Pro: Authoritarians seek to extinguish mutual knowledge. When people develop shared senses of injustice, they can mobilize.

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Pro: Fear is one of the factors that help the oppressors, when a group overcomes that fear, the oppressors disappear.

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Pro: Being met with silence when looking for support from ridicule and oppression also can make someone feel that they deserve the possible ridicule/oppression

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Pro: Inaction is an action

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Con: Silence is sometimes an act of self-preservation.

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Pro: When we face challenges without support, we are more likely to feel negatively about ourselves and isolated.

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Con: People must assess their personal risk and weigh it against the risk to others. Ultimately, individuals have a responsibility to themselves in addition to others.

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Con: Not all of us have the necessary support groups to get us through those challenges. By believing in this, our morale can be lowered even further in a vicious cycle.

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Pro: Inaction is itself a choice that comes with its own consequences.

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Con: It is not always easy to immediately react when faced with confrontation.

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Con: When terror is in force, it is hard to stand up to these oppressors.

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Pro: strength in numbers

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Pro: We need the support of others to help navigate what can be an ugly world. Vocalizing opposition will help to silence the ridiculing, oppressive voice.

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Con: Personal belief and personal risk are often limitations here

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Con: Maintaining silence will hopefully ensure you will not be targeted.

Mendon Upton

Silence is complicity with those who would ridicule, oppress, or devalue you. We depend on our community, peer and familial support networks to support us through challenges

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Cons

Authoritarians seek to extinguish mutual knowledge. When people develop shared senses of injustice, they can mobilize.

Inaction is itself a choice that comes with its own consequences.

When we face challenges without support, we are more likely to feel negatively about ourselves and isolated.

Inaction is an action

We need the support of others to help navigate what can be an ugly world. Vocalizing opposition will help to silence the ridiculing, oppressive voice.

Fear is one of the factors that help the oppressors, when a group overcomes that fear, the oppressors disappear.

Being met with silence when looking for support from ridicule and oppression also can make someone feel that they deserve the possible ridicule/oppression

strength in numbers

The oppressor's strength depends on your silence.

Not all of us have the necessary support groups to get us through those challenges. By believing in this, our morale can be lowered even further in a vicious cycle.

Silence is sometimes an act of self-preservation.

People must assess their personal risk and weigh it against the risk to others. Ultimately, individuals have a responsibility to themselves in addition to others.

Maintaining silence will hopefully ensure you will not be targeted.

Personal belief and personal risk are often limitations here

When terror is in force, it is hard to stand up to these oppressors.

It is not always easy to immediately react when faced with confrontation.

Selected thesis

Silence is complicity with those who would ridicule, oppress, or devalue you. We depend on our community, peer and familial support networks to support us through challenges

Pro claim 1

Authoritarians seek to extinguish mutual knowledge. When people develop shared senses of injustice, they can mobilize.

Pro claim 2

Inaction is itself a choice that comes with its own consequences.

Pro claim 3

When we face challenges without support, we are more likely to feel negatively about ourselves and isolated.

Pro claim 4

Inaction is an action

Pro claim 5

We need the support of others to help navigate what can be an ugly world. Vocalizing opposition will help to silence the ridiculing, oppressive voice.

Pro claim 6, children below

Fear is one of the factors that help the oppressors, when a group overcomes that fear, the oppressors disappear.

Pro claim 7

Being met with silence when looking for support from ridicule and oppression also can make someone feel that they deserve the possible ridicule/oppression

Pro claim 8

strength in numbers

Pro claim 9, children below

The oppressor's strength depends on your silence.

Con claim 1

Not all of us have the necessary support groups to get us through those challenges. By believing in this, our morale can be lowered even further in a vicious cycle.

Con claim 2

Silence is sometimes an act of self-preservation.

Con claim 3

People must assess their personal risk and weigh it against the risk to others. Ultimately, individuals have a responsibility to themselves in addition to others.

Con claim 4, children below

Maintaining silence will hopefully ensure you will not be targeted.

Con claim 5, children below

Personal belief and personal risk are often limitations here

Con claim 6

When terror is in force, it is hard to stand up to these oppressors.

Con claim 7

It is not always easy to immediately react when faced with confrontation.