Everyone who pointed it out was beaten down, and made an example of. And then everyone who witnessed it was gaslit. Lot of sweat and elbow grease has been put into the "shut up and take it, or you're a commie" campaign.
What's frustrating is this delusion that the other "side" of that wants anything more than to leverage your productivity to service their priorities. It will never be a removal of authority. Just a sales pitch to sell you a change in management as some kind of utopian upheaval.