1M Census Update

Are you a member of a historically marginalized group?

No offence to whoever wrote this question, but I don't think it's what they actually wanted to know. I made an assumption about what was being asked and answered 'no', but of course that wasn't true: many of not most of the groups to which I belong were historically marginalised at some point, and some killed on sight. Obviously that has no impact on my life today, so probably isn't of interest for the purposes of the survey, unless you're massively interested in a couple of fairly good-natured jokes people have made. Probably should have been something like 'member of a currently marginalised group', or 'currently marginalised where you live'.

/r/AskHistorians Thread