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Comment by dnautics

1 day 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

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Alive-in-2025  1 day ago

If 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.

  • DaSHacka  12 hours ago

    Why would a conservative want to pretend that? When was the last time you actually talked to one?

  • nullc  18 hours ago

    Do 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?

Arodex  1 day ago

Those "conservative circles" don't exist anymore - if they ever. MAGA ate them, chew them and spit them.

  • inigyou  19 hours ago

    MAGA is conservatism. Political factions evolve over time.

    • MajorTakeaway  17 hours ago

      It's not the entirety of conservatism, however the Tea Party evolved into MAGA and got what they wanted. Generalisations lead to fallacies, have a nice day.

  • coldtea  1 day ago

    The 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  1 day ago

      Trump 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.

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