People talk about minority repression like it's a bad thing. When you live in a little "D" democratic society, the rules and the goals are set by the big "M" majority. I know this sucks a lot of times like in school when you want to play kickball and everyone wants to play dodgeball, or you get picked last in team selection, but the benefits are better than the inconveniences. It homogenizes us where we all know what to expect in normal interaction. We are comfortable living next to people who look and act like we do. What if your neighbor played different music really loud and slept at different times than you did? What if they didn't have the same religious or educational beliefs that you do? How hard would it be living next to those people?
Democracy filters all the bad stuff out of society in the form of minorities. Unfortunately, some things that fall into minorities aren't necessarily bad in and of themselves, but that's the price you pay to keep chaos outside. Imagine if your church had to modify its beliefs to allow everyone to worship there. You would no longer have any of the core mythological constructs that make us who we are. Any concept that was difficult to believe or subjected anyone to negative feelings would be discarded. I don't want to live in that generic society.
The wheel squeaks to tell you it needs to be fixed.
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