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[kruddler]

Sitting on the fence and absolving yourself from taking a position, or taking a weak, tokenistic position, is not good enough IMO.

I don't disagree with where you are coming from, but this argument doesn't work.

Simply there are too many causes that people should be vocal about. If we were as front footed as you suggest, society would crumble because everyone would be protesting 24/7 for various causes.

Obviously there are differing degrees of importance to this, but that is the point ...where do you stop
Such causes as....
Gender equality
Pride acceptance
Black lives matter
Anzac day rememberance
Indigenous appreciation....are common place.
We also have....
Earth hour
Global warming
Anti nukes
Anti war/terrorism
Starving kids in Africa
Homeless people in [insert city here]
Someone mentioned Haitian slavery
Which reminds me of the stolen generation
Save the rainforest
Save the orang-utan/Anti palm oil
Save the whales
Save the [insert one of 100s of species of animals here]



....you get the point, but there would be 100s of things I could write that people are vocal about and also silent on....which is NOT a sign that they are against (or for) but there simply isn't enough time in the day to care about all there is to care about. So people focus on something that is close to them.

Apathy does not equal opposition.