It's not unpopular. There's a disconnect: It's a popular opinion, but a silent majority. Voicing that opinion, though, makes you a target. I feel like language

It's not unpopular. There's a disconnect: It's a popular opinion, but a silent majority. Voicing that opinion, though, makes you a target. I feel like language is failing me here; What do you call it when the masses are oppressed for fear of speaking out against the powerful and vicious that would suppress them?