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

I don't think so

[jugularjaguar]

I believe when they are small and getting started, yes they do feel they are being picked on. They are. It is something new and different so that is how it goes. Once they get big and make some money they show respectability.

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

[ashenfox]

It seems to me this is a result of a modern idea that if you can get people to feel sorry for you, you can receive special treatment and approval to behave however you like.

It would seem to stem from a selfish attitude that if you can force other people to treat you differently because of something different about yourself or the group you identify with, you are better than them because you have control.

[torakiyoshi]

It's the result of sin in our lives. Humans are immensley prideful, and when things don't go our way, for whatever reason, our pride turns it into percieved direct attack and abuse. It goes all the way back to Eve, who felt that it was unfair that she not be able to be like God...

-=TK

[ashenfox]

On one hand, that's true. Hitler made the German people feel like the whole world was against them. However, he also appealed to their conditioned need for someone to set a schedule for them and maintain law and order, which at the time was perceived as lacking due to the economic situation at the time. Finally, he wanted the German people to believe, as he did, that they represented the most highly evolved humans on earth and that they needed to rid themselves of those dirty less-evolved "races" who were ruining their superior culture and hindering the progress of the human race as a species.

[jarrardi]

WoW! I got a lot more response to this than I'd ever dreamed! Thank you, all of you, for your imput! I think that you all have pretty much showcased every side of this topic! *hugs to all*