How did less than 1% rise to power so easily?

Or maybe all us pagans need to do is start threatening people and calling them paganphobic. We will quickly be established as a religion have a flag and have pagan parades while everyone silently hates us because we have the entire world dancing around our feelings.

Probably that wouldn't be enough. But if you were to start claiming that basic child safeguarding rules and protecting women from abuse are against your human rights as pagans...
I think that's when you'd find this hypothetical pagan rights movement would start to gain momentum.

It’s because it’s the politics of guilt and self-exculpatory flagellation. Imagine you’re a white middle class professional in a public sector, quasi-public sector or cultural role. You are privileged, you have power over other social groups (or so they tell you) and you are guilty about your privilege and frightened of it being removed. So what to do? You jump on a bandwagon that proves how compassionate, open-minded and willing to ‘educate yourself’ you are. You use it as a straightforward ‘some of my best friends’ defence, but on the emotional level. You ‘commit to the work’. You humble yourself. And you hope the pitchforks and lights will pass by in the distance.