minority
The state or condition of being smaller, inferior, or subordinate to something or someone else; lesserness.
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The government has no place in the practice of medicine. These laws aren’t to protect children, they’re to control a minority population and feed propaganda to their ignorant base
I don't have a Times subscription so I've not read the article, but I cannot think of a less helpful headline at time like this. I can only assume that it has been done deliberately to continue to stoke division bet…
England’s previous local elections tell a familiar story: parties winning huge seat majorities on a minority of votes, while thousands of voters are left unheard.
‘Starmer to host Downing Street summit to address antisemitism’ OK, good, but. Does anyone have a spare £1m to get him to do the same thing on Islamophobia? or any other minority group phobia?
We are stronger than the vocal minority of billionaires trying to stop us from saving our hospitals and ERs. Together we can pass the #BillionaireTax
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The state or condition of being smaller, inferior, or subordinate to something or someone else; lesserness.
“I don't have a Times subscription so I've not read the article, but I cannot think of a less helpful headline at time like this. I can only assume that it has been done deliberately to continue to stoke division between minority groups, which is a classic far right tactic.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“We are stronger than the vocal minority of billionaires trying to stop us from saving our hospitals and ERs. Together we can pass the #BillionaireTax”
— Bluesky· May 2026“What's most galling is that although 36% is a minority of 350M Americans, still having ~126M ignorant Americans among us ensures that on the curve, America is too dumb to survive.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“They went for the Avengers ending and whiffed while caving to the loud minority…sounds familiar.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“If you look at Jay Caspian Kang’s career as the type of model minority who will do or say anything to get in with white folks….well, it’ll explain a lot.”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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Any subgroup that does not form a numerical majority.
Most people agreed, but a sizable minority were upset by the decision.
“The government has no place in the practice of medicine. These laws aren’t to protect children, they’re to control a minority population and feed propaganda to their ignorant base”
— Bluesky· May 2026“England’s previous local elections tell a familiar story: parties winning huge seat majorities on a minority of votes, while thousands of voters are left unheard.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“‘Starmer to host Downing Street summit to address antisemitism’ OK, good, but. Does anyone have a spare £1m to get him to do the same thing on Islamophobia? or any other minority group phobia?”
— Bluesky· May 2026“UNCONSTITUTIONAL! NO identifiable (describeable) minority may enjoy protections not granted to the majority! share.google/yL08TOj52XIy...”
— Bluesky· May 2026“There is no way for them to double down on their transphobia. It's already extreme. And it has nothing to do with votes. Indeed, most people don't actually cars and those that do are moving to the Greens because of it. GCs are a tiny, tiny minority of people with excessive power.”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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The state of being a minor; youth, the period of a person's life prior to reaching adulthood.
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