It just depends on what minority you use.
Blacks/LGTB/Jews? Not many people would consider it.
White supremacists/Nazis/Islamic Fundamentalist? It's already mainstream.
Blacks/LGTB/Jews? Not many people would consider it.
White supremacists/Nazis/Islamic Fundamentalist? It's already mainstream.
"Some Jews get killed so everyone else can have Great Justice" is the modal case of Jew-hatred. Remember, Hitler thought he was the good guy.
All I'm saying is that it's quite easy to fall into a mental pattern where oppression becomes acceptable. Most people in Germany during WWII were not Nazis, and yet many of them happily accepted the status quo that made what happened possible.
We certainly aren’t going around killing them in purges...
What I'm getting at is that the OP statement can be bent to fit whatever ideology you want, and with that be able to get widespread support to "repress" minorities.
It's not only "evil" people the ones repressing others.
Killing the children of Islamic fundamentalists in drone strikes. Holding them for years without any trial or recourse in gitmo. Torture. I'm sure there are other things.
More precisely, we are talking about the people targeted or captured during the 'war on terror'.
The pertinent category here is "whoever is considered an 'enemy' in 'war'" - they will get their rights trampled.