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by eric-hu 3970 days ago
One recent real world example of "things [improving] by large numbers of people speaking out" is gay marriage in America.

It took time and victory had some false starts (i.e. Prop 8 in California), but now gay people are equally entitled to ruin their lives with marriage.

In all seriousness, legalizing gay marriage is clearly one that far more than 0.01% of the population cared to oppose the issue, and yet they still eventually lost to an informed and vocal majority.