&gt; You&#x27;re really saying that the way to change it is to simply wait, which is a complete disservice to anybody persecuted in the past, or anybody being persecuted today for things that are &quot;still&quot; unpopular.<p>That is not at all what I&#x27;m saying. The many activists for civil rights did not simply &quot;wait&quot;. They protested, they petitioned, and most importantly, they made it very publicly known who they were and why and how they were being oppressed. Literally, the exact opposite of being private.<p>Most normal people (the 80% in your example) don&#x27;t really want to be involved in oppressing or abusing anyone. It&#x27;s easy for them to let it happen if they don&#x27;t know the people it&#x27;s happening to and see them as real human beings, but that&#x27;s what happens so long as the main concern is maintaining privacy.<p>Look at what&#x27;s happened since being gay has gone from private, closely guarded information to generally publicly available, or at least not explicitly hidden. Are gay people more oppressed or less oppressed now?