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There is a significant movement in conservative circles that "the census should literally only be a count". this could be a wedge to prevent detailed demograph
by dnautics 4mo ago
There is a significant movement in conservative circles that "the census should literally only be a count". this could be a wedge to prevent detailed demographic data collection by the government
- xnx 4mo agoBut a count of what?
- oh_my_goodness 4mo agoA count of people.
- xnx 4mo agoAll people or citizen people?
- oh_my_goodness 4mo agohttps://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artI-S2-C3-1/ALDE_00001034/ https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artI-S2-C3-1/...
- radiator 4mo agoPopulation in a city?
- Alive-in-2025 4mo agoIf you don’t count people of different races, nationalities, origin, then you can pretend there are only white people. You don’t know if there are any marginalized people gathered in say an extremely poor neighborhood, because they are all people. I see it as a way to pretend there’s just white people.
- nullc 4mo agoDo you think the only, or even primary, thing that determines if a person is marginalized is the color of their skin? -- even taking that you're talking about a POOR neighborhood as a prior?
- DaSHacka 4mo agoWhy would a conservative want to pretend that? When was the last time you actually talked to one?
- mvdtnz 4mo agoWhat an utterly ludicrous thing to say.
- boppo1 4mo agoWouldnt that hurt the conservative cause though?
- Arodex 4mo agoThose "conservative circles" don't exist anymore - if they ever. MAGA ate them, chew them and spit them.
- coldtea 4mo agoThe problem is not that MAGA "ate them, chew them and spit them", but that the traditional neoliberal shit GOP circles "ate, chew and spit" the MAGA movement and what people voted Trump for. Instead Trump was fully assimilated to the Borg/Swamp, with a big fuck you to the MAGA promises (except the show he put on about immigration).
- Dylan16807 4mo agoTrump was never ever going to drain the swamp. And I wouldn't say he served existing entrenched interests very well either. To the extent he touched the swamp it was to put in worse people only he liked.
- coldtea 4mo ago>Trump was never ever going to drain the swamp. Doesn't matter for the point of the argument, he was elected on that promise, and others, that he eventually broke.
- lazide 4mo agoIt was so transparent that it was going to happen, I really question if anyone legitimately believed it. Might as well have literally voted for the fox to be in charge of the hen house. ‘Oh no, but they promised they wouldn’t do that!’
- Dylan16807 4mo agoIf you want to argue the problem is he got "assimilated" then you have to argue he originally would have made a real attempt to fulfill the promise. My assessment is: no way.
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