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But this is the base of democracy, the majority rules ! So, when we are in a minority we have 2 choices: a) to accept and adapt, or b) to convince the majority and to increase your group to follow your ideas until it becomes a majority.
I can see that making proposals to the DTTB may not work if you really are a small minority. However, if you have large support for your cause in your country, then DTTB will for sure listen.
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Please, don't speak about democracy and ITTF in the same context. Any real democracy has controlling elements. Government is controlled by parliament (opposition). Legislation is controlled by the jurisdiction. Any minority has the right to call the courts if it feels discriminated.
Minorities in table tennis don't have this option. So the organized table tennis is only some kind of democracy. It's more like the democracy in the former German Democratic Republic where un-wanted behaviour were treated similarly.
Irony-Mode on.
I think we should forbid playing with the left hand. It's ugly to see when a left-hand player and a right-hand player compete. Also, the right-hand players have the majority, and therefore they rule. Lefties have no future. They can continue to play, but they must learn to play with the other hand. It can be fun and in a few years they may be nearly as good as before.
Irony-Mode off.
The point is that any non-mainstream playing style that could harm the offensive players was banned (even if you don't call it so) by the "majority" in our sports in the last decades.
In Football, for example, Greece won the European Championships in 2004 in a very destructive, un-attractive but effective style. No friend of offensive football was happy about it. But on the other side it was really refreshing that an underdog could achieve this. No rule was adapted to avoid this in future.
In Table-Tennis, when John Hilton won the European Championships in 1980 (in a very destructive, un-attractive but effective style), the ITTF and their members were also not amused. The first thing they had to do was to change the rules, so that this never happens again.
Pardon me for being a bit rough, but that had to be said from my side.