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Poll_Blind

(23,864 posts)
Fri Mar 29, 2013, 12:33 PM Mar 2013

When a member of a minority group doesn't agree with advocacy groups, whose opinion has more weight? [View all]

The member of the minority group or the advocacy group?

In real life, I've known African-Americans, LGBTQ Americans, Jewish Americans, American women and Latinos who have, on occasion, disagreed strongly with or found offensive the positions of advocacy groups which purport to defend them.

Is the burden on an individual member of a minority group to conform to the standards the advocacy group proposes, or on the advocacy group to encompass most or all viewpoints within that minority group?

PB

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