&gt; They don&#x27;t &quot;see them as real human beings&quot; because the victims are dehumanized as a different tribe.<p>Exactly. And the way to counteract this is by speaking up and showing them that the victims are real people. Not by hiding the victims. As long as they never see or hear about or meet any real person that&#x27;s a member of the oppressed class, they can maintain the illusion that they are &quot;others&quot;.<p>It&#x27;s easy for someone to hate &quot;gays&quot; as an abstract notion. It&#x27;s a lot harder to hate your gay neighbor Fred, who waves hello in the morning and asks how your day is going and picks up the mail for you when you&#x27;re out of town.<p>Maybe it&#x27;s valuable in the short term for some individuals to be able to hide, but it only slows down the progress overall. Aside from that, my main point is that, valuable or not, hiding is not going to be an option. Digital information doesn&#x27;t stay in one place. Even if you think it&#x27;s really wrong that it doesn&#x27;t, it still doesn&#x27;t.<p>Music companies think it&#x27;s really wrong that people can share copies of music files, but that hasn&#x27;t stopped it from happening. Ignoring the reality of it and trying to legislate it away hasn&#x27;t stopped it. It won&#x27;t stop companies&#x2F;governments from sharing information about you either. So, if that&#x27;s what you&#x27;re relying on to keep you safe, you&#x27;re not going to be safe.