An IOU for a penny for your thoughts?

[jarrardi]

I just came to a startling and blindingly obvious realization: every culture, group, and organization, no matter how big or small, weak or powerful, thinks it's an oppressed minority. o.0

In other news, I have a question for you:

Why?

Comments

Re: I don't think so

[karnalis]

I've got to disagree with you there, Jugs. I've lost count of how many times I've heard mainstream Christians, for example, claim that their religion somehow represents the most oppressed and maligned group in the U.S., in spite of the immense amounts of money poured daily into churches, the special treatment granted them in political and tax-related arenas (which I wholeheartedly disgree with on church-state-separation grounds), and the fact that their views and beliefs are the most prominent, flagrant, and repeatedly foisted on people in this country when compared to any others.

As I said, though, that's just one example. I agree with Jari here, in that I don't think having money and support necessarily leads to humility and respectability in a group. Heck, look at furries...there are thousands upon thousands of furs, and yet the drama and paranoia are still both invited and prevalent. Republicans thought that everyone was out to get them even when they had majority control of the executive and legislative branches of the US gov't. It's human nature, I think.