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The 2020 census is being ‘sabotaged,’ says leading U.S. statistician

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Re: The 2020 census is being ‘sabotaged,’ says leading U.S. statistician

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> This means [it eliminated] literally a third of the time allocated for the Census Bureau to knock on doors, to try to enumerate the hard-to-count individuals, which happen to be African Americans, Latinx populations, immigrants, people in heavily transitory situations, tribal lands, some Asians.

Random question but why would some races have more trouble than others responding to the census? Is it more to do with poverty than race? Or is there a cultural distrust of the census that aligns with race?

Re: The 2020 census is being ‘sabotaged,’ says leading U.S. statistician

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> This means [it eliminated] literally a third of the time allocated for the Census Bureau to knock on doors, to try to enumerate the hard-to-count individuals, which happen to be African Americans, Latinx populations, immigrants, people in heavily transitory situations, tribal lands, some Asians. Random question but why would some races have more trouble than others responding to the census? Is it more to do with po…

Poor people move around vastly more frequently and often end up temporarily sharing living spaces.

Re: The 2020 census is being ‘sabotaged,’ says leading U.S. statistician

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Trying to sidestep democracy is how you end up with armed revolt. I wish both sides would realizing their destroying people’s faith in the system and how quickly that can destabilize everything.

Ha be really clear dude in this case, in this article it is not both sides. It is solidly the current administration and no one else. Our current party in power has done this.

So to retype what you said more correctly. "I wish the Republicans would realize they are destroying..."

Re: The 2020 census is being ‘sabotaged,’ says leading U.S. statistician

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Trying to sidestep democracy is how you end up with armed revolt. I wish both sides would realizing their destroying people’s faith in the system and how quickly that can destabilize everything.

> I wish both sides would realizing their destroying people’s faith in the system

And I wish people would stop saying 'both sides' when it's 95% only one side. That's the issue. One side is now against census so people aren't represented, restricting voting so people don't get a say, and people keep saying 'both sides'.

Re: The 2020 census is being ‘sabotaged,’ says leading U.S. statistician

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Trying to sidestep democracy is how you end up with armed revolt. I wish both sides would realizing their destroying people’s faith in the system and how quickly that can destabilize everything.

There's a lot of things you can "both sides" but only one side is undermining democracy because their positions are unpopular.

Re: The 2020 census is being ‘sabotaged,’ says leading U.S. statistician

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> This means [it eliminated] literally a third of the time allocated for the Census Bureau to knock on doors, to try to enumerate the hard-to-count individuals, which happen to be African Americans, Latinx populations, immigrants, people in heavily transitory situations, tribal lands, some Asians. Random question but why would some races have more trouble than others responding to the census? Is it more to do with po…

Poor people move around vastly more frequently and often end up temporarily sharing living spaces.

Sounds like it's not discrimination against race then, but of economic status. The disenfranchisement of poor people.
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