1) yes absolutely, at a collective level, horrifying and bad.
2) at an individual level, I can guarantee you that some of these people are at _relatively_ low risk of retaliation, and are allowing their desire to avoid risk at all to stop them from speaking up for those at more risk.
2) at an individual level, I can guarantee you that some of these people are at _relatively_ low risk of retaliation, and are allowing their desire to avoid risk at all to stop them from speaking up for those at more risk.
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Eric Lipton NYT
The fear among academics and lawyers now talking on the record on just about any topic that involves the federal government or the White House is really extraordinary and worrisome, and getting worse, it seems to me, every week. Dissent by an establishment figures becoming verboten in the US
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