The people who declare "If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear" never grew up in a parochial village that persecuted anything that was different.

The people who declare "If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear" never grew up in a parochial village that persecuted anything that was different. I was interested in books, SciFi, computers, electronics. Because I did not subscribe to the populist viewpoint of all that mattered was sports, sports, and more sports, getting blackout drunk on Friday and Saturday night, fishing and torturing small furry animals "just for fun" I suffered more than my fair share of persecution, beatings (lots and lots of beatings) and ostracism. The idiots that declare "nothing to hide, nothing to fear" are privileged minority, usually white, male and middle class.