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>>zoobab+(OP)
If people tell you they're collecting data for statistical purposes, then one of three things:

1. They should deliberately introduce noise into the raw data. Nazis with the raw census data can spend all month trying to find the two 40-something Jews that data says live on this island of 8400 people, but they were just noise. Or were they? No way to know.

2. Bucket everything and discard all raw data immediately. This hampers future analysis, so the buckets must be chosen carefully, but it is often enough for real statistical work, and often you could just collect data again later if you realise you needed different buckets.

3. They shouldn't collect _anything_ personally identifiable. Hard because this could be almost anything at all. If you're 180cm tall your height doesn't seem personally identifiable, but ask Sun Mingming. If you own a Honda Civic then model of car doesn't seem personally identifiable but ask somebody in a Rolls Royce Wraith Luminary...

>>tialar+x4
Nazis used the census because it was there. Were it not, they would have just went house to house - which they then regularly did anyway.

The antidote of oppression is not the Index statisticum prohibitorum, but quite the opposite, education, and in particular educating about how different each and every one of us is, and yet it doesn't take much to get along well.

>>pas+N5
Today's Nazis would probably use machine learning to identify "characteristically Jewish facial features".

(Or, of course, simply pass a law that entitles them to deport or hold indefinitely anyone who can't prove they're a real Ayrian with only the papers they have on them at the time)

>>pjc50+j6
This hypothetical 21st century National Socialist German Workers' Party would likely be a little more subtle than blatantly enforcing existing immigration law. They'd obviously be interested in establishing a common enemy, even if it requires massive exaggeration mixed with complete fabrication. That would do them no good if domestically targeted propaganda were illegal though... hopefully the combination of laws and executive orders preventing that don't get relaxed by the two administrations proceeding this cringy edgelord scenario.