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“Dissent without action is consent.”
Discuss in the comments below. Remove the personalities and stick with the statement.
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It’s has the same meaning with this anecdote:
If you see an elephant stepping down on a mouse’s tail, and the mouse cries out to you for help. If you say that you don’t want to get involved and would like to stay neutral, your neutrality doesn’t help the oppressed mouse. It helps the elephant!
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silence and neutrality helps the oppressor, never the oppressed
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jhay’s take on it captures exactly what danilo lim decried.
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So if a rape victim doesn’t try to fight off her attacker, is she actually consenting to the rape?
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Arbet, i’m still thinking about what Lim said. The only thing i can say is that, by its effects, it is hard to differentiate “dissent without action” from “consent”.
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