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    It is not the case that An action that does not specifically communicate political deference cannot be interpreted as consent without equivocating on what 'consent' means.

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    • 1.Many legitimate consents are implicit: paying at a store implies agreement to purchase without explicit verbal consent.
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    • 2.Requiring explicit political speech for consent sets an unusually high evidentiary bar not applied to other consent contexts.
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    • 3.Actions themselves communicate political positions; refraining from resistance can legitimately signal acceptance of terms.
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    • 1.Consent requires affirmative communication of agreement to specific terms, not mere silence or passive acceptance.
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    • 2.Actions can express many attitudes (compliance, resignation, indifference); inferring consent requires disambiguating which.
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    • 3.Conflating tacit acceptance with genuine consent obscures power dynamics where people comply without actually agreeing.
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