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Re:Can Things Be Both Popular and Silenced? by montrose on Wednesday May 23, 2018 @05:18AM (#17132533)
The word for the phenomenon he describes is "heresy." For example large numbers of fairly influential people in European history disagreed with official church doctrine, but had to keep quiet or risk persecution of various types.

E.g. Newton had qualms about the Trinity, but he could not talk openly about them, or he would have lost his fellowship at Oxford. (Ironically, he was a fellow Trinity College.)

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Re:Can Things Be Both Popular and Silenced? by oicie0uD on Wednesday May 23, 2018 @06:07AM (#17132792)
FTA:

The thing that’s new and exciting enough to get New York Times articles written about it is that the anti-PC movement has spread to friendly coastal liberals. From the Democrats’ perspective, the IDW aren’t infidels, they’re heretics.

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