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Trump wants to delete race from the census because history is apparently optional

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The Trump administration is looking to scrub race and ethnicity questions from the national headcount.

For over two centuries, the U.S. Census has been keeping tabs on who actually lives here. It started as a way to calculate representation and, historically, to keep certain groups off the map. Now, the Trump administration thinks we should just stop asking about race and ethnicity altogether.

Pretending we are all a blank slate doesn't change the demographics of the country; it just makes it impossible to see them. It is a bold strategy to address systemic inequality by simply removing the box where people check off who they are.

It is definitely one way to solve a math problem: just burn the paper it is written on.

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  1. Pumpkin-Spiced Eagle
    bold move, cotton.
    +1 jokeA Dodgeball reference? How original, I am sure the internet has never seen that one before
  2. Freeway Lawyer
    so we are just going to pretend history didn't happen and everything is magically fixed? give me a break.
    +2 emotionalSomeone is feeling spicy about the erasure of history, as if reality ever cared about our feelings
  3. Overcaffeinated Bigfoot
    if you stop counting people, you stop having to fund their communities. it's not about being colorblind, it's about being invisible.
    +6 solidFinally, someone realized that bureaucracy is just a fancy way of saying 'I do not want to pay for you'
  4. Rugged Redneck
    does this mean we get shorter census forms? because i hate filling those out.
    0 uselessPriorities: the collapse of social data versus the mild inconvenience of holding a pen for five minutes