For the first time in 27 years, the U.S. government is changing how it categorizes people by race and ethnicity, an effort that federal officials believe will more accurately count residents who identify as Hispanic and of Middle Eastern and North African heritage.

The revisions to the minimum categories on race and ethnicity, announced Thursday by the Office of Management and Budget, are the latest effort to label and define the people of the United States. This evolving process often reflects changes in social attitudes and immigration, as well as a wish for people in an increasingly diverse society to see themselves in the numbers produced by the federal government.

  • EatATaco@lemm.ee
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    7 months ago

    Okay. I demonstrated your point was false by pointing to actual verifiable things. You’re just making vague claims now. So by what metric are you judging that things have gotten worse? And how does that prove the whole government is working against them now?

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      7 months ago

      Again, your “actual verifiable things” are performative and we are going backward. If none of the “actual verifiable things” help then, again, I stand by my point.

      If I say I’m helping kill a mosquito on your nose by punching you in the face, I doubt you would consider me to be on your side.

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        7 months ago

        You’re not providing any evidence of your point. I understand that you think this has happened. I’m trying to figure out how you got to that position.

        And if you’re arguing the the CRA didn’t actually do anything, then I would argue that you are woefully ill equipped to be having this debate.