> “I realized that my team simply did not have much to say on the issue of police brutality. This was odd—mostly because I’d watched them debate countless other

> “I realized that my team simply did not have much to say on the issue of police brutality. This was odd—mostly because I’d watched them debate countless other topics, newsworthy and not, with a proud deftness and alacrity,” I'm not surprised countless of other topics are far safer conversation topics. They are here to do a job and not get involved with politics and touching incendiary topics would be downright stupid. They certainly have an opinion in some way. But they're not stupid enough to share it. Why on earth would you ever expect your coworkers to talk about gun rights, abortion, police brutality etc over Malaysia 370 in an office environment?