"When institutions like the University of Tennessee tacitly condone violence against women by ignoring cases of sexual assault by student-athletes, it perpetuates a dangerous culture of violence that ultimately hurts women everywhere," Nita Chaudhary, co-founder of UltraViolet, said in a statement.
"There were posh fat air-conditioned camps like comfortable middle-class scenes with the violence tacit, 'far away'; camps named for commanders' wives, LZ Thelma, LZ Betty Lou," as Michael Herr put it in his 1968 volume of reportage from Vietnam, "Dispatches".
Other journalists, like New York's Olivia Nuzzi, admitted they have likely fallen victim to an accidental retweet but couldn't remember any specific instance—likely because whatever message they ended up retweeting wasn't a tacit call for violence against CNN reporters.
Prime Minister Najib Razak condemned the attacks on the churches Friday and defended the government against accusations that it had at least tacitly sanctioned the violence.
While extremists commit terrorist acts, the political leaders of Pakistan have tacitly allowed the violence by stigmatizing the nation's two million Ahmadis under the law, much in the way that segregation laws in the American South created a climate amenable to lynching.
The problem is that CNN, and other news sources, constantly mentioned post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) alongside the horrific violence, tacitly drawing a connection in the readers' minds whether PTSD was to blame for the violence or not.
There was a "tacit acceptance" of both violence and child abuse in some communities, and children were often actively discouraged by their own family from disclosing or reporting, "especially when it involves a local Indigenous offender", the report said.
The researcher Emma Jane refuses to use the word "trolling" to describe this behaviour when it starts online; she calls it cyberviolence, acknowledging its tacit relationship with the violence its language justifies.
During his court-martial, Sergeant Hutchins's civilian lawyer, J. Richardson Brannon, argued that his client's actions were the result of his commanders' poor leadership and of what the lawyers said was the commanders' tacit approval of using violence in capturing and interrogating people suspected of being insurgents.
