#majorities

I already figured out that certain people like to hate on something that is seen as "majority" just for the sake of it. But we have a problem here. What if in some years, the "minorities" you see as victims just because they are "minorities", become the majority? Are you then gonna start hating on them?

But then again, there's some twisted idea of what "minorities" and "majorities" are.

For example religion. I've heard they indoctrinate American kids in schools and teach them about "Islamophobia" and how Islam is "representing all oppressed minority groups".

Don't know if this is true, but what i know is true ara statistics:

Here we can see that Christians represent 31% of the world population, while Muslims 23% of the world population. If you ask me, these two are pretty even, there's only an 8% difference. Right after comes "non religions" and Hinduism. On the bottom are Jews. So, how exactly is Islam representing an actual minority like Judaism? Maybe those American schools can explain this, or maybe not...

The next favorite topic are people- and i don't mean human beings, since we are not treated like humans anymore. I'm talking about "races"( whatever this means, but it's your rules, i'm gonna keep using your logic, so you'll understand easier....).

So, everybody behaves like people with pale skin are the absolute majority, "oppressing" everyone on the planet... let's see what the statistics say:

I mean, if you have the time, you can look up the world map and count together all the so called "people of color" and "non-people of color" if you like, just for fun 🤷‍♀️

We can talk about "minorities" in a country- but then again, i'm pretty sure this doesn't count for "non-people of color" minorities in countries where "people of color" are the majority.

So, these "rules" we hear and read about everywhere- doesn't. make. any. sense.

I honestly surprised myself yesterday by suddenly coming to a new realisation and switching my stance on a big social issue.

Although I’ve enjoyed the aesthetic side of “pride,” I had still been uncertain of whether we should really be entitled to it on the sole basis of our identities. I didn’t like its implications of imbalance and inequality--why are minority people allowed to be proud but majority people should not? None of us can help how we were made, so why should the rules be different?

Similarly, I didn’t understand racial pride, and sometimes I found it offensive. White people can’t help their skin colour any more than POC can, so why should our attitudes be different?

Last night, I realised that isn’t it. It’s not a matter of fairness between minority and majority identities--not that there ever has been fairness. I was resistant to the idea of “special” minority pride because I was resistant to the assumption that that meant majorities should have shame, but that isn’t at all what is meant by “pride.” Minorities should have pride because they’ve had to fight for their identities, and most continue to have to fight. The fight may never end.

People of majorities have never had to fight to be considered valid, or even just to be considered human. Instead, majorities weaponised their identities to suppress and oppress others--why does that warrant pride? I used to object to this notion because it seemed like an accusation that an individual of a majority had anything to do with their majority's crimes, and maybe that accusation can’t be helped. After all, it wasn’t people of colour, people of disability, queer people, females, etc who criminalised, victimised, and killed entire groups across entire generations because they thought their identity was superior and correct. No, people of majorities can’t help who they are nor can they help what those before them did, but people of minorities can’t help the pain they’ve carried for centuries.

“Pride” isn’t an inherent right, but is dependent upon the circumstances set up against someone. If your race, ability, orientation, gender status, etc have ever been used against others, even if you yourself have never done so, you aren’t entitled to pride.

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