I find it a common but fateful fallacy to focus only on "minorities". Alarm bells should ring just as much when majorities are suppressed and persecuted as with minorities. A wrong does not become in any way more palatable if it is committed against more instead of less people. If you think otherwise, then what was the annihilation of te…
I find it a common but fateful fallacy to focus only on "minorities". Alarm bells should ring just as much when majorities are suppressed and persecuted as with minorities. A wrong does not become in any way more palatable if it is committed against more instead of less people. If you think otherwise, then what was the annihilation of tens of millions of Russians and Ukrainians belonging to the MAJORITY in your view?
It might be understandable if a Jewish Holocaust survivor sees these things from his peculiar ethnic perspective which has near-always been one of minority status. His statement, thus, serves the purpose for him and his ethnoreligious minority. As a universal message, it certainly is of much less use. For as a universal message, we must not limit our resistance to wrongs to those that are committed against "minorities" only. We must make the message truly universal. A crime is a crime. Fullstop. Whether it is committed to a minority or a majority must not matter to us.
When you speak of annihilation of tens of millions of Russians, you are still speaking about minorities because they were labeled as such by communist regime. They were labeled as a minority of political traitors, minority of “kulaks” (well to do farmers) etc. Them being Russians in a sea of other Russians doesn’t make them not a minority. Minority means a small number- not necessarily different religion or ethnicity. The same way Austrians who refuse the vaccine or mandate makes them minority (unfortunately) even though they are of the same ethnic and religious background
Exactly. Now they want to imprison for one year Austrians who refuse the vaccine. Can you imagine that. That's alot of people they have to imprison. Laughable. Stupid evil people.
I find it a common but fateful fallacy to focus only on "minorities". Alarm bells should ring just as much when majorities are suppressed and persecuted as with minorities. A wrong does not become in any way more palatable if it is committed against more instead of less people. If you think otherwise, then what was the annihilation of tens of millions of Russians and Ukrainians belonging to the MAJORITY in your view?
It might be understandable if a Jewish Holocaust survivor sees these things from his peculiar ethnic perspective which has near-always been one of minority status. His statement, thus, serves the purpose for him and his ethnoreligious minority. As a universal message, it certainly is of much less use. For as a universal message, we must not limit our resistance to wrongs to those that are committed against "minorities" only. We must make the message truly universal. A crime is a crime. Fullstop. Whether it is committed to a minority or a majority must not matter to us.
When you speak of annihilation of tens of millions of Russians, you are still speaking about minorities because they were labeled as such by communist regime. They were labeled as a minority of political traitors, minority of “kulaks” (well to do farmers) etc. Them being Russians in a sea of other Russians doesn’t make them not a minority. Minority means a small number- not necessarily different religion or ethnicity. The same way Austrians who refuse the vaccine or mandate makes them minority (unfortunately) even though they are of the same ethnic and religious background
Exactly. Now they want to imprison for one year Austrians who refuse the vaccine. Can you imagine that. That's alot of people they have to imprison. Laughable. Stupid evil people.