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I think it's problematic to use the term "minority" when discussing a group of people who are suffering and have suffered systematic discrimination and oppression, because the abuse hasn't been about numbers, but about power, and the label of minority can too easily be co-opted by the powerful. For example, straight white Christian males are a minority group in Canada, always have been, because they are fewer in number than the combined groups of people who are LGBTQ, people of colour, people who aren't Christian, and people who aren't male. We've got a court case in which the very powerful, never oppressed white Evangelicals are trying to claim that, because they are a minority within the Christian faith, they have somehow suffered oppression akin to what those in marginalized groups have actually suffered. And that's why I use the term marginalized instead, to refer to those who have been pushed aside or down to the benefit of that very powerful minority. If someone has a better term, I'd like to know of it.