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In reply to the discussion: Federal Judge Approves Trump Effort to Obtain List of Jews From Penn [View all]usonian
(25,315 posts)17. Your Government is Protecting You. Information will never leak. It will never be used to harass, injure or kill Jews.
From "IBM and the Holocaust"
For example, at Alexanderplatz in Berlin, just down the street from the Prussian Statistical Office complex, Brown Shirts invaded a restaurant popular with Jewish businessmen. Waving a list of names of the restaurant's Jewish customers, the Brown Shirts "formed a double line to the restaurant door." They called each Jew out by name and made him run a gauntlet. As a Jew passed, each Storm Trooper "smashed him in the face and kicked him with heavy boots, until finally the last in the line, knocked him into the street." The last Jew to run the gauntlet was beaten so severely, "his face resembled a beefsteak," the newspaper reported.
https://explaininghistory.org/2025/09/30/ibm-and-the-holocaust-technology-as-a-force-multiplier-for-genocide/
The Hollerith card was a death sentence.
https://allthatsinteresting.com/ibm-nazis-ww2
"It's just a census. Nothing could possibly go wrong"
Reminder: Elon Musk has passwords to, and back-doors planted in every major government computing system.
And he would NEVER misuse the information.

How IBM Helped The Nazis Carry Out The Holocaust
https://allthatsinteresting.com/ibm-nazis-ww2/3

Information in the hands of a MURDEROUS fascist government WILL BE MISUSED.
THEY CANNOT MISUSE information that THEY DO NOT HAVE.
"It's just a census"
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Federal Judge Approves Trump Effort to Obtain List of Jews From Penn [View all]
BumRushDaShow
Yesterday
OP
Whoops. I looked up his name and it said Bush somewhere. Cray cray. Thanks. Maybe it was Google AI...again.
C Moon
15 hrs ago
#30
Horrible optics even if they are (in theory) trying to go after antisemitism
LymphocyteLover
22 hrs ago
#13
Yet, the Jewish population apparently doesn't feel discriminated against there
Bayard
22 hrs ago
#14
Your Government is Protecting You. Information will never leak. It will never be used to harass, injure or kill Jews.
usonian
20 hrs ago
#17
I don't think they'll ever tell us the truth..they will, I fear, show us why they want this and voters' information
Deuxcents
17 hrs ago
#27
Yeah. I don't care what reasons are given. Never good - Never - to want to point out the Jewish people.
Solly Mack
17 hrs ago
#29
OK, maybe this is a dumb question, but why the fuck would a student or employee record include religious affiliation??
pat_k
15 hrs ago
#31
Is the next step to force universities to give up the names of every Muslim so they can be blamed for antisemitism?
Lonestarblue
8 hrs ago
#33
"Is the next step to force universities to give up the names of every Muslim so they can be blamed for antisemitism?"
BumRushDaShow
7 hrs ago
#37
Why would there be a "list of Jews" in the first place? Religion of nonreligion is a private matter.
Vinca
8 hrs ago
#35
Wouldn't it be easier just to make all the Jews wear a yellow Star of David on their clothing?
Ray Bruns
8 hrs ago
#36