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dnauticsyesterday at 8:13 PM4 repliesview on HN

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-2025yesterday at 8:28 PM

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.

Arodexyesterday at 8:32 PM

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

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xnxyesterday at 8:22 PM

But a count of what?

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boppo1yesterday at 8:29 PM

Wouldnt that hurt the conservative cause though?

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