My attitude toward Officially Protected Sacred Victim Groups --minorities for short-- is quite unfriendly. My own OPSVG included. And even though women outnumber men by a little, they have that victimist mentality, plus they have a minority's completely dependent relationship to the Oppressor Group that they envy, resent, and seek to destroy.
As soon as someone chants the sacred word "minorities", my sympathy level plummets. When I hear "minority rights", I become positively unenthusiastic.
Women, for example, need men simply to survive. What element in our civilization, beyond childbirth, does not depend on men for its continuance? It is the great irony of this OPSVG that it is the group they attack which makes life possible for them. Feminists rely on men for existence itself, and only the creation of a certain kind of society allows them the leisure to make a vocation out of complaining. Like teenagers.
Blacks needs Whites to survive. Where are all the examples of Black societies that maintain, much less thrive, without Whites? American Blacks are the richest and healthiest group of Africans on the planet and only because they live in a White society that creates prosperity and stability.
You can go down the list. In every case, the prickly Victim Group has, at best, a symbiotic relationship with its Majority Oppressor Group, or in other cases, acts more like a parasite than anything else.
A little gratitude might be more in order.
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This was a point that sprung to mind for me recently. If I ever get anybody joining me in my little "experiment," then I don't want them running off and working with the "get rid of 'In God we Trust'" crowd. It's averted by the acknowledgement that all gods are, in a way, cultural interpretations or servants of the overarching Thirteen: for instance, Gabriel in Judaism and Christianity is usually considered to be "The" Angel mentioned throughout Scriptures, so he could easily be identified with the Greco-Roman Hermes/Mercury.
And second, a directive for followers to respect the faith of the majority: it's all the same thing. The caveat is if somebody insists that you are not permitted to practice your own faith at least privately.
-Sean
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