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Originally Posted by meeera
Do you know what happened to black people who protested or tried to escape chattel slavery? To Australian Aboriginal people who tried to evade or escape capture and eslavement? Etc? And yet, you assert that their attempts at self-preservation were "silent condoning"? Wow.
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Of course I didn't mean people who would have been in mortal danger for so much as expressing their thoughts. Why do you think I meant them? I meant all the people who were not themselves subjugated the same way and just accepted the status quo as "the way things are", possibly never even bothering to think about it. And that's actually what humans have been doing all the time. Those who bother to think about the plight of others and speak out against it have always been in the minority. It's understandable if speaking out would put the speaker in danger, otherwise it
is just condoning.
And no, I'm not on any moral high horse here nor do I consider myself morally superior to others. No doubt I've been doing quite a lot of said condoning myself, perhaps even without being aware of it. Not that it's an excuse.