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| Apr 29, 2022 at 13:42 | comment | added | prosfilaes | A law that benefits several minorities can have the support from all of them, but is also more likely to have resistance from the majority or even parts of the minority; not everyone who believed that black people should vote believed that women should, and not everyone who believed that women should vote believed that black people should. And for any more subtle case, these alliances can break up completely; racial minorities aren't impacted by who can use what restroom, and the law about employers and protected hair styles has little impact outside of black communities. | |
| Apr 29, 2022 at 1:50 | history | edited | meriton | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Apr 28, 2022 at 22:00 | comment | added | uberhaxed | @prosfilaes A lot of people using words incorrectly don't make it correct. No matter how may people misuse the word "Nazi", it doesn't mean what ever is politically convenient at the time, and neither does minority. If all the women in a democracy voted the same way and everyone else voted a different way, women would win and therefore control all of the political power. That's not what a minority is. | |
| Apr 28, 2022 at 21:25 | comment | added | prosfilaes | @uberhaxed Minority has often been used in a sense including women, as they don't have the political power and men are at best marginally a minority. It's not wrong in every possible way. Nor is this case not unique. Virtually all groups have intersection; there are gay Mormon black people, for example. Most limited democracies that excluded women also excluded other groups, by religion or wealth. | |
| Apr 28, 2022 at 21:11 | comment | added | uberhaxed | @prosfilaes if you read my comment, I was stating that calling women a minority is wrong in every possible way, even counting technicalities (while 50/50 is average, in every case women edges out men). Also, if you read my comment you would see that I said that the case is unique because there is intersection between the groups. It's like you didn't read it at all. | |
| Apr 28, 2022 at 21:04 | comment | added | prosfilaes | @uberhaxed The OP mentioned gender as a group; males and females are equal enough in population that calling either group a minority by population is not really accurate. The US was not a unique case if you follow the history of suffrage. There are plenty of other examples; religious minorities in the US are not on average appreciative of LGBT rights, for example. | |
| Apr 28, 2022 at 20:24 | comment | added | AyamGorengPedes | @meriton we have provinces more diverse than the European continent, and all are equally opressed in the backwater regions | |
| Apr 28, 2022 at 18:04 | comment | added | uberhaxed | @prosfilaes while this is correct, the answer did mention minority groups (groups that do not have a majority by population) which most definitely does not include women in almost every country in the world (men death rates and life expectancies are lower). The US was a unique case where two groups lacking suffrage had some intersections but one was not a minority. | |
| Apr 28, 2022 at 16:53 | comment | added | prosfilaes | Which doesn't seem to be backed up by evidence. Historically, various groups looking for civil rights have often been at odds with each other, like black and female groups in the US. I recently read a Newsweek article by a Black author who said the Republicans should focus on Black rights to lure away Black voters from the Democrats, who push for intersectionality and civil rights in multiple directions. | |
| Apr 28, 2022 at 11:57 | history | answered | meriton | CC BY-SA 4.0 |