This is literally my parents. They told me to stop criticizing the people in power, even going as far as saying I shouldn’t criticize the government of my former country. I don’t even have citizenship in my former country anymore, not sure how I could even get in trouble for criticizing is effecively a foreign country to me. (I’m talking about PRC btw).
My mom told me to “just focus on improving your own life and stop worrying about things like you can’t control like politics” (as in, both the politics of my former country and the politics of my current country)
Am I in the wrong here? Should I just keep quiet and not say anything so that I don’t “get in trouble”?
If everyone dissents then dissent can not be crushed.
Never let a government scare you
And if you’re at the point where they are killing or dissapearing dissenters then being quiet won’t save you from the thought police, the only option then is to take as many of them with you as possible when they come for you.