minority views
Underrepresented political stances
Minority views are opinions or positions held by a smaller portion of a group, as opposed to the prevailing consensus.
The term appears in contexts ranging from political dissent to scientific debate: The report included a section presenting minority views on the committee's findings.
Minority views may be marginalized or actively suppressed, though sometimes they later become mainstream.
- dissentDisagreement with authority
- devil's advocateOne who argues against
- fringeOutermost edge or margin
- outlierDistant data point
- contrarianChronic majority-opposer
against the grain · heresy · unorthodox · marginalized · radical · counterculture · dissident · alternative · unpopular · heterodox · thinking outside the box · rebel · outsider · underdog · skeptic · maverick · suppressed · silenced
- perspectivesviewpoints, viewpoint, POV, opinions, opinion
- Congressional Documentscommittee reports, congressional inquiries, investigative reports, committee findings, budget reports
minority viewsconsensus
General group agreement
popular opinion · majority opinion · general consensus · conventional wisdom · received wisdom
minority, views, minor, minors, minoring, minored, minorly, view, viewed