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by gundmc 2024 days ago
> Also, "beyond the pale" [2] stems from the area enforced during the tsarist era of Russia (1791 - 1917) beyond which Jews were not allowed settlement. Tsarist apartheid in other words.

This doesn't seem to be true based on pretty much every source I've seen.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pale