minority groups?

Question

the more minority groups are spoken badly about
the more other minority groups will stand in their defense
then they are no longer a minority but a large group of people standing together against intolerance

so wouldn't it make more sense for those who speak badly about others .... just to sshhhh ?

you know it makes sense lol

or is it a good thing in a sense that they are spoken badly about , to help us stand together ?

what's your thoughts on this please ?

Answer 1

here's a little something i read once that really got me thinking...

First They Came for the Jews

First they came for the Jews
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for the Communists
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists
and I did not speak out
because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for me
and there was no one left
to speak out for me.


Pastor Martin Niemöller

...the person who answered that there is just one race-the human race-is right! we're all on this planet together and we need to heed what ben franklin said...'if we don't hang together, we will indeed hang separately'

Answer 2

As a minority group people tend to form groups as there is safety in numbers. Once the number increases, ofcourse it no longer is a minority but becomes a majority.
The sense of belonging to a group is one of the most primieval instincts of all animals and so is ingrained in our brains/minds/psyche whatever. It is more so in the teenage and young adulthood. An extrapolation of this is that one is immature and as age advances they tend to stand out for themselves. All these are developmental and relative. You live another day and learn more.

Answer 3

If people kept their mouths shut, and kept their fists in their pockets, rather than attacking everyone all the time, that might constitute a movement toward tolerance.

In general, the only problem with being part of a minority is that of being hated and discriminated against. Hate crimes are just that, and deserve to be prevented as much as possible.

In one sense, any single Christian denomination is a minority group, and it is illegal to discriminate against anyone based on their religion. Why do we not all deserve the same protection?

Answer 4

I personally don't like standing together with other people, but I'm kind of a loner anyway. Almost every time I "band together" I do so for the other person's benefit, not my own. I've learned that if someone else is hatreful and intolerant, then that's their problem, not mine. I will only intervene if an innocent person cannot adequatly defend themselves...

Answer 5

You're in Scotland, Pangel, IIRC . . . that's a fairly homogenous country, but even where you are you must have some idea of the problems increasingly multicultural areas like London are having . . . and not JUST from "intolerance."

It's never helpful to look down on or discriminate against or hate other groups. But there are tensions, up to and including high rates of violent crime and social chaos, that come from our inability to endlessly absorb other cultures, other groups, into our own. One can argue that such things arise FROM pre-existing prejudice, or from poverty, or from . . . whatever, really, but sooner or later, I believe, every person must take responsibility for their own behavior, and every community must police its own members.

That's not happening a lot here. I wish it was, and that I wasn't watching the self-immolation of almost an entire imploding subculture here in America.

Now, here on R&S . . . *G*

I'll make common cause with atheists on evolution, but demure when they call my ways fairy tales, just as I'll make common cause with Wiccans, but demure when they talk about all deity being "aspects of the God and Goddess." :-)

Answer 6

personally i don't think there should be such a thing as a minority or majority group, this only leads to certain groups trying to be the "alpha male" but what grates me is the government ban school sports days, as they believe they breed a social divide between winners and losers, but they always stick up for the so called minority group.

Answer 7

Speaking as an anthropologists there will always be intolerance with in society.I wish it wasn't so but it is the case. Each culture has inbuilt mechanisms to resist change. Intolerance is one of them.
Minority groups are advocating to change society to there ideals. Society resists this by being intolerant of there ideals. the more radical the group the more that society resists.

Answer 8

Reminder; God seeks from us purity; not majority. Sooner or later we are all minority in something. So long as the minority is correct, the Lord may fight for the minority; example the minority when Abraham negotiated with God about Sodom & Gommorah.

Answer 9

I think Pagans need to take over the world again. We were doing a pretty decent job. The Greeks were pretty darn smart! All kidding aside, I think it brings us closer together. Unfortunately pagans are secretive by nature so we don't really yell loud enough sometimes.

Answer 10

Would that it were so. Unfortunately, I do not see this being the case. For instance, many black pastors are being drug over to the "gay hating" side, refusing to defend the rights of this group. We all need to stand against all bigotry.