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Yes, they can be both popular and silenced. Steven Pinker mentions in the Better Angels of Our Nature (and possibly also elsewhere) that a group of people (eve
by js8 8y ago
Yes, they can be both popular and silenced.
Steven Pinker mentions in the Better Angels of Our Nature (and possibly also elsewhere) that a group of people (even relatively small one) can be in a situation where everybody disagrees with some policy, yet everybody follows it, because they believe that everybody else agrees with it.
That's why allowing dissent is important, to get out of such tricky situations.
- scandox 8y agoA lot of the debate is exactly informed by this: what we suspect some silent majority are really thinking. So if I have a lot of sympathy with left-leaning ideas, it's probably because in a certain part of my life I see a lot of quietly right-wing ideas.
- simonsarris 8y agoWas he referring to the Abilene paradox? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abilene_paradox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abilene_paradox