This sort of thing sounds too cartoonishly evil for Denmark to have done at the government level so recently (i.e. not in the 1600s). Was this really a targeted

This sort of thing sounds too cartoonishly evil for Denmark to have done at the government level so recently (i.e. not in the 1600s). Was this really a targeted thing, or is it like a chain of sources over time, each citing a controversial subset of the prior one until it sounds like it was specifically targeting a certain group?