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A lot of this seems to focus on ideas and worldviews but I think there's a more general truth in Orthodox Privilege: If you're in the majority it's easy to overestimate the quality of life in the minority (and this applies to many kinds of majorities and minorities).

I think a lot of politics (at least in my country) also work this way. Simply by not addressing real problems, a politician can look like a winner because hey, there are no problems when they're in charge! Addressing problems not only becomes a political liability, it's in fact hardly possible at all because the majority of people wouldn't believe you if you told them about it and would accuse you of making up problems.



This also reveals a fundamental bug in naive democracy (i.e. we should do everything that the majority wants). It creates an implicit tyranny against the minority by the majority. Of course the same person can be in a majority group in one category but minority in the other.

U.S. Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and other similar fundamental laws were conceived as essentially a way to fix this problem; to keep the minority safe from the majority. You wouldn't be able to solve slavery with democracy. The majority would vote to maintain it.




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