This seems anti democratic. How can we prevent small minorities from hassling everyone until they get their way?

In 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.

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RcouF1uZ4gsC 3 hours ago | parent [-]

I think that might be wishful thinking.

It is privileging 200 of history verses several thousand years of human history.

	▲	komali2 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Several 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=s...

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sabellito 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

What 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 35 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		3.5% forcing their preferences on all the others is obviously anti-democratic. Unless you don't know what democracy means

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Jtsummers 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

In the US? You'd probably need to repeal the first amendment. Good luck with that.