A handy barometer for federal, monetized aggression against the American people can be readily seen in the documents of the U.S. Census, as it fails to justify its growing demands upon our privacy and insists on the priority of 'race' in every evaluation.
"The racial categories included in the census questionnaire generally reflect a social definition of race recognized in this country and not an attempt to define race biologically, anthropologically, or genetically. In addition, it is recognized that the categories of the race item include racial and national origin or sociocultural groups. People may choose to report more than one race to indicate their racial mixture, such as"American Indian" and "White." People who identify their origin as Hispanic, Latino, or Spanish may be of any race.
The Census does admit that it is not using formal definitions or understandings of what 'race' means, at all: that is right; they aren't, but they are making some up.
Whatever might be "a social definition of race"? If we use William Shakespeare's marvelous definition of humanity, of a naturally equal human species that trumps race, spoken by Juliet to Romeo, we can draw a legitimate analogy as to how secondary, at best, race truly is, compared to the family of man: 'Tis but thy name that is my enemy; Thou art thyself, though not a Montague.
From the US Census: In addition, it is recognized that the categories of the race item include racial and national origin or sociocultural groups.
People may choose to report more than one race to indicate their racial mixture, such as "American Indian" and "White." People who identify their origin as Hispanic, Latino, or Spanish may be of any race.
How and why, exactly, can "The race item include racial and national origin or sociocultural groups"? By what agency or definition does 'national origin' define 'race'? Are the French a race? Are Ugandans a race? For heaven's sake, what even is a 'race item'? And what of 'sociocultural groups? Can diverse but grouped, acronym-heavy phenomena e.g., Transgender, BLM, MADD, Pacific Islanders, AA, etc.
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