An Ominous Anecdote about Statistics...

Young German Neo-Nazis think judging the worth of people by ethnicity is a good thing:

To make matters more complicated, crimes committed by foreign-born Germans are not even listed separately in the official crime statistics, because the perpetrators already have German passports.
I hate bigots of all stripes, and requiring statisticians to pander to bigots is a manipulation of the duty of the statistician to report faithfully and objectively the data he has acquired. This addition of ethnicity to the statistical yearbooks happened before. I here cite an older book in my possession, XXXXXXX, one chapter of which describes what happened in the German statistical agency when Hitler rose to power. I've scanned in the chapter, and encourage you to read it at your leisure.

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