If you don't speak out, you're complicit?

Personally, I disagree with this statement as an absolute. While I can agree with the statement under the right conditions, I mostly see it being used to promote dichotomous thinking. Do you agree, disagree?

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BlueMetalChick · 26-30, F

Not necessarily. It might mean you're complicit, or it might mean that you're being sneaky. Maybe if you're not speaking out, it's because you have a plan to change something but it's gotta stay quiet so as not to alert the person who is being targeted.

TheSeptikSkeptik · 46-50, M

@BlueMetalChick Like I had said, I do agree with the term under certain circumstances such as positions that are objectively true/false. I just see too many arguments using this rhetoric to conclude that;
"If you disagree with me on 'x', then you are a 'y'"