They are being treated in the same way the Communists treat their unpopular minorities.
He said the provision also denied equal protection of the laws by discriminating against strikers and their families as "an unpopular political minority."
If that were the case, there would no protection for unpopular minorities and it is they who need protection most.
Your suggestion that representative democracy provides no protection for 'unpopular minorities' is risible.
They're an unpopular minority, although they were here first, and they get a rotten shake at every turn.
The Cantard is no place to belong to an unpopular minority.
Third, Burke warned that democracy would tyrannize unpopular minorities who needed the protection of the upper classes.
Well, my people can tell you all about that, and it never gets any easier until there's some new and even more unpopular minority to take your place.
Dissidents and their sympathizers have always been a tiny, unpopular minority in the Soviet Union, the prisoners among them a sad subset.