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Re:U.S. Economy Shrinks at 4.8% Pace, Signaling Start of Rec... by Mc_Big_G on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @04:07PM (#23023559)
What minority are you even talking about?
Re:U.S. Economy Shrinks at 4.8% Pace, Signaling Start of Rec... by stcredzero on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @04:45PM (#23024064)
What minority are you even talking about

Any of them.

Some of them, I'm in. Some of them, I'll never be in. The principle is universal: A just society protects the minority. Any of them.

Re:U.S. Economy Shrinks at 4.8% Pace, Signaling Start of Rec... by sundaeofshock on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @09:32PM (#23026576)
It’s one thing to protect the minority from the majority; it’s another to allow the minority to constantly overrule the majority. At some point the US will come apart because of our current political dynamics.
Re:U.S. Economy Shrinks at 4.8% Pace, Signaling Start of Rec... by stcredzero on Thursday April 30, 2020 @03:21PM (#23034959)
it’s another to allow the minority to constantly overrule the majority

That's the whole point of protecting the minority. Otherwise, if the majority always wins, and the minority has to be satisfied with the crumbs left by the majority, the minority has effectively zero power. It's like writing an API. You know you're doing it right, when things mostly work, but there's someone, somewhere sorely dissatisfied with not getting their way.

In the words of one fictional British gentleman, "You don't have it. I don't have it. That's detente, comrade!"

Re:U.S. Economy Shrinks at 4.8% Pace, Signaling Start of Rec... by losteric on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @09:11PM (#23026465)
Any of them? Including groups that want to oppress others?
Re:U.S. Economy Shrinks at 4.8% Pace, Signaling Start of Rec... by stcredzero on Thursday April 30, 2020 @03:16PM (#23034914)
Including groups that want to oppress others?

Of course. Rights have to be universal, even for people with such desires. Otherwise, whomever has the power to adjudge what others are "actually" thinking have the power to remove people's human rights.

The dynamics where accusation is enough, guilt is assumed, and no proof is needed are often abused to have power over others. If there was ever a time when this should be obvious, it is 2020, present day.

In fact, all of the above is the whole point of the Bill of Rights and the Magna Carta.

Re:U.S. Economy Shrinks at 4.8% Pace, Signaling Start of Rec... by JoshuaDavid on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @10:55PM (#23027000)
"Protects" is not equivalent to "grants the political wishes of". For example, people who want to abolish free speech still have the right to argue for the abolition of free speech.