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Right. The Jewish before the Holocaust had nothing to hide either. Their ethnicity was outed by things like census data that people divulged and the state collected. Nothing to hide after all. It's not a crime to be Jewish.

Mountains of personal data is too juicy and is inevitably misused.



> The Jewish before the Holocaust had nothing to hide either.

Actually it started much earlier than that.

Christian started going after Jews since at least the fourth century, inspired by the hatred written in the Gospel of John. In particular, it was a Christian ritual to physically attack Jews around Easter in the Middle Ages.

More detail: https://theconversation.com/why-good-friday-was-dangerous-fo...




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