For centuries, all over Europe, Jews in very large numbers hid their identity under a public appearance of Christianity to survive persecution or to avoid discrimination, or actually converted.
From Iberia of the late 15th Century to the Russian Empire of the 19th and 20th Centuries to the Germany and Eastern Europe of the Nazi period, the tactic was common as dirt.
The phenomenon of "passing" is, I think, relevantly similar.
The CMW not only of the PC left, lost in admiration for real and imaginary martyrs who "tell truth to power," has trouble with this.
But aren't these just particular cases in which an innocent party denies the truth to someone who would wrongfully use it as a reason to harm that same innocent party, or others who could be protected by a judicious lie?
Why suppose that others, however malevolent, have an unconditional right to these or any truths?
But none of that has much to do with the present case, it appears, which seems to me very strange, but not a reason for anger.
True enough, there has been a lot of lying involved.
But surely not to anyone's harm?
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