My Nora tea
When did the word “minority” become shorthand for “set of wonderful people unfairly neglected or persecuted by the plump prosperous majority”?
That’s not what it means. It just means non-majority. It’s quite neutral.
Of course there is. Successful projects to eliminate or find a cure for various diseases eliminate the minorities who suffered from them. Projects to extend education to all children eliminate minorities who have never so much as seen a school. And so on. Lots of kinds of minority are kinds of disprivilege, and eliminating them is not genocide, it’s genobenefit.
Guys like Brian Wu want to grab some of that benefit and attention and cuddling for themselves, despite the fact that they’re not the people the benefit is intended for and they’re not in any need of the benefit. It’s a pukey spectacle, men waving an “I am so persecuted” flag while they shred women’s rights.
It’s also straight out of the Eric Berne classic Games People Play, as at https://www.celestinevision.com/the-poor-me-control-drama/ .
It’s the ‘Poor Me’ control drama, IMHO.
How about privileged minorities such as slave owners? Of course, there’s still slavery in the United States, but I’d argue slave ownership is no longer a part of “American life” as it once was.
Not to mention the unpacking ‘normal’ requires… Wrong. Eliminating a minority is a fairly simple equation, all you have to do is redraw the boundaries, and create a different imaginary random subset based on nothing really important, like preferred musical tastes or something, or cultural preferences handed down from geopolitical mores. It’s exactly the same as creating one. It’s a slippery slope that followed to it’s absurd conclusions would render us all individual minorities of one. The us vs.them divisive rhetoric is promoted by and consumed by the blissfully ignorant who can’t see beyond their own noses. They talk about being inclusive, and all the while they disclude others from their preferred in-group. Hypocrisy much?