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lazide 2 hours ago

Eh, that’s the ‘if people do the right thing’ approach.

Many countries use census data to target (or even round up and murder) specific groups of people by religion, ethnicity, etc.

angry_octet an hour ago | parent | next [-]

"Many countries"? Do you have any evidence for this statement?

I think that actually the US is an outlier.

inigyou an hour ago | parent | next [-]

When Germany invaded the Netherlands they found it extremely convenient that the Netherlands had a nice centralised paper filing system telling them exactly where all the Jews lived. The Holocaust proceeded more efficiently in the Netherlands than it had in Germany.

katbyte 6 minutes ago | parent [-]

Maybe an example that isn’t almost 100 years old ?

lazide an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Here is a case study from Greece in the ‘20’s, but all you need to do is google ‘ethnic cleansing’ and dig in, and you’ll see government data sources (including census data) all played a part.

[https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11208589]

“The census was conducted in a period of successive wars and rapid territorial expansion. We focus on the handling of the census data for Macedonia, a newly annexed territory that would soon become the site of the first instance of large-scale ethnic cleansing in modern Europe.”

mthoms 34 minutes ago | parent [-]

In the original comment, you used the present tense. I think that's what was being questioned.

wahnfrieden 18 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

If someone says the holocaust happened, do you demand evidence of the claim? Because that’s exactly what you’ve done here

dnautics an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

really? bosnia 1990s, turkey early 1900s, pogroms all over europe in the 19th century, holodomor, china with tibet and uighurs, germany tabulating data on the jews with the help of ibm...

heheheisis 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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