"It is the wish of the majority to arm themselves with the weapons of the minority"

"It is the wish of the majority to arm themselves with the weapons of the minority," writes Natascha Strobl, a political scientist who specializes in right-wing extremism. In one example that immediately crossed my mind when I read Strobl's aphorism, white Americans respond to accusations of racism by claiming that people of color are the actual racists. Further, Strobl's observation clarifies why anti-lockdown protestors keep stylizing themselves as oppressed people and comparing themselves to those murdered by the Nazis during the Holocaust. The majority sees the "minority" as using the concept of oppression as a "weapon" to defend themselves, so they pick up that weaponto challenge whatever threatens their majority status. (Andrew Shields, #111words, 18 May)

 

Es ist der Wunsch der Mehrheit sich mit den Waffen der Minderheit zu bewaffnen. (Natascha Strobl)