Ha , look at this chump with his shiny gold star ! <| sep |> Y ' know , a thought occurred to me the other day . Say you elect your government through popular vote in a two party system for simplicity . If both parties represent the needs of the majority ethnicity equally , then minority ethnicities hold 100 % of the power to swing the vote . If on the other hand one party demonizes and trivializes the concerns of the majority ethnicity based on their ethnicity they will obviously vote for the other party , thus reducing the influence of minority ethnicities . So if you want minority interests to be represented , you ' d better make sure you don ' t fuck over the majority first . In a healthy system , this would happen naturally . This is also how democracy avoids the tyranny of the majority as long as the majority doesn ' t stand significantly to gain from one party over another , the concerns of minorities hold more weight than their sheer numbers would suggest . But if you try to elevate minorities by fucking over the majority , you ' ll soon find yourself unelectable so democratic governments are incentivized to elevate people only in so far as this can be done without hurting others .