[WhyKill]

If you have the ability to speak out for an oppressed class of people but do not you are de facto supporting the dominant regime. Silence is collaboration with the status quou. It's subtle but it IS racism. If you have the time to talk about social issued with your co workers, you have the ability and time to stand up for truth, justice, and freedom from oppression. If you don't get back to work. It's precisely the silence that is deafening.

[the_snooze]

>If you have the ability to speak out for an oppressed class of people but do not you are de facto supporting the dominant regime.

Shaming others into action isn't sustainable. At best, they'll join you begrudgingly but drag their feet doing so and not recruit the next set of allies on your behalf. At worst, you persuade them to join your opposition.

[core-questions]

> If you have the ability to speak out for an oppressed class of people but do not you are de facto supporting the dominant regime.

Says you. What if I have an entirely third position on the issue that I'm afraid to speak out on?

> you have the ability and time to stand up for truth, justice, and freedom from oppression

I could do this, but what if my definition of what that is, is different than yours? What if I value, say, freedom of speech as the pinnacle value under the umbrella of "freedom from oppression", and you don't?

> It's precisely the silence that is deafening.

I usually wish there was more silence, to be honest. Maybe you should read the silence less as "unwillingness" and more as "people sitting aghast at what you've said, and wishing you'd just take it outside so we can go back to enjoying our breakfast".

[jcims]

This is an unsustainable position, you can’t fight every battle.

[malandrew]

I don't care what the issue is, but whenever someone makes this argument, it instantly makes me care that much less about whatever they are advocating. Everyone has a right to silence and non-involvement without having their motives questioned.

[makoz]

Can't this logic be spread to a bunch of other injustices in the world? If I interact with some party who is contributing some injustice to a group of people, whether in terms of work conditions, lack of political voice and so forth does that mean I'm collaborating/supporting their regime?

An example is the current situations happening in Hong Kong and Uyghur. And the fact that everything we buy on a day to day basis is "supporting" this oppression.

[JoeAltmaier]

Says the social justice warrior.

We're not all warriors. That's a fact of any population. And the non-warriors aren't scum, despite the chest-beating of those that are.

Just speaking out against intolerance, wherever I find it :)