In what instances throughout history has the majority been wrong?

Question

In what instances throughout history has the majority been wrong?

Answer 1

Today's British politicians must think most British are wrong about mass immigration.A referendum would show that most real British are against mass immigration particularly from Islamic countries, still they battle on,for example  using the BBC's excessive use of "ethnic" staff  in an attempt to persuade the British of the "inevitability" of multiculturism.

The government should consult the real British on mass immigration and multiculturism in a referendum. We have never been asked about this dramatic and permanent change to our old island.

Of course they do not have a referendum saying it would be "racist" but in reality knowing they would lose .

Answer 2

The world was flat.

Answer 3

n**i Germany.

(No matter which way you look at it n**i ideology is wrong.)

The Earth-centered Universe of Aristotle and Ptolemy held sway on Western thinking for almost 2000 years.

Then, in the 16th century a new idea was proposed by the Polish astronomer Nicolai Copernicus (1473-1543).

Copernicus proposed that the Sun, not the Earth, was the center of the Solar System. Such a model is called a heliocentric system.

Answer 4

Any religion.

Answer 5

The Dreyfuss Affair - France 1890s

Jim Crow laws in the South

Slavery

Wait, wrong as in factually incorrect or wrong as in immoral?

All major scientifc advancements show that previous thinking was factualy incorrect.

Copernicus above is as good an example as any.

Answer 6

Depends whos side your on