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I mean you could remove the "minorities" from the post and it would be just as accurate.
An armed population is harder to oppress.
Look how dictatorship 101 starts with removing any easy ways for the people to defend themselves.
What are you talking about? All those idiot gun nuts who voted for trump are oppressed as shit. They have them around their finger, no matter how many guns they have. In fact they use their gun ownership to feed the cycle.
Unless you go full Syria on your government, the oppression will continue as usual.
That's true, but one of the biggest hallmarks of fascism is framing a minority population (or several) as the villains responsible for all that ails the nation, and often times there's no one to stand up for them save for themselves, ultimately resulting in that old addage:
If you're a minority and no one will protect you, it's important to consider what means you might have of protecting yourself, and other minorities. If you're willing to stand up for one another, their safety is yours, and yours is theirs.
You're definitely not wrong though. I just think it's perhaps especially important for vulnerable populations