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This seems anti democratic. How can we prevent small minorities from hassling everyone until they get their way?
by rayiner 10mo ago
This seems anti democratic. How can we prevent small minorities from hassling everyone until they get their way?
- Jtsummers 10mo agoIn the US? You'd probably need to repeal the first amendment. Good luck with that.
- sabellito 10mo agoWhat if the small minority is being oppressed and killed? There are so many reasons why a small minority might need to protest within a democracy. "This seems anti democratic" is a bizarre take.
- lingrush4 10mo ago3.5% forcing their preferences on all the others is obviously anti-democratic. Unless you don't know what democracy means
- sabellito 10mo agoIt seems that it's you who needs more education on the topic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyranny_of_the_majority https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyranny_of_the_majority
- Conscat 10mo agoIn the big picture, culture progresses towards equality over time, although it see-saws and moves very slowly relative to a human lifespan. Small minorities of hate groups, for example KKK, are not able to influence society in the long-run because their message is antithetical to this natural imperative. Whereas advocacy for racial minorities, gender minorities, and feminism progresses over time.
- RcouF1uZ4gsC 10mo agoI think that might be wishful thinking. It is privileging 200 of history verses several thousand years of human history.
- komali2 10mo agoSeveral thousand years of human history in fact argues for their point of tendency towards equality being a natural imperative, and artificially enforced caste systems being unnatural and instinctively distasteful to people. See Graber's last book before he died: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dawn_of_Everything?wprov=sfla1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dawn_of_Everything?wprov=s...
- hellgas00 10mo agoNothing says "instinctively distasteful caste systems" like the ongoing meat grinder in Gaza. Truly the pinnacle of humanity's natural drift toward equality.
- komali2 10mo agoThe majority of people are horrified when they become aware of what's happening in Gaza. Personally I think a large majority of those that support it are sheltered from the reality of it, e.g. avoid seeing images of assassinated children.
- tbrownaw 10mo ago> natural imperative It happens because trust me bro.
- fedeb95 10mo agoseems is the key word. 3.5% - or any other % - actively engaging doesn't mean that if you cast a vote, 3.5% would support. Probably an order of magnitude more. People tend to be inert, even when they agree with something. However, sometimes it is true that small minorities can hassle everyone until they get their way. This usually happens through lobbying, corruption and misinformation though, way easier than a peaceful protest if you are a small minority; with the added benefit of appearing to have a big majority of the population in your favor. See what populist far right movements are doing right now throughout the world.
- justsomehnguy 10mo agoYou declare what this is democratic. Declaring the same by a country from the other side of the planet also helps. Worked fine for a certain democratic country in 2014.
- seattle_spring 10mo agoHuh, never thought I'd see Rayiner agree that the electoral college is fundamentally anti-democratic.