Sure, but this sounds like a cult of victimhood or differentness, and you'll find that these subcultures remain in the minority, in part because they define themselves as a minority.
Re:Diaspora Developer Release
by SkyMarshal on Thursday September 16, 2010 @02:24PM
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The individual subcultures do, but taken altogether they could be quite large. Good point though, we'll see, hopefully that's not Diaspora's fate.
I like it for that reason. Edgy, accurate, and with the potential to repurpose/reframe the word in the minds of many.
That kind of persecution also tends to cause the persecuted to bond even more strongly and proudly with their cultural identity, so the connotations are not all bad.