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Some movement conservatives recently have advised people to answer the census form falsely (or leave questions blank), especially on race. But is this wise? Since it will mostly be European Americans who will answer these questions dishonestly, it seems that such a tactic would be counterproductive. As Steve Sailer points out today:
As far as I can tell, the best thing you can do for yourself and your loved ones is to answer these questions honestly. If you are white and non-Hispanic, and you put that down on the Census form, then the quotas for protected groups will be smaller than if you try to be clever and put down something else.
In a world of official and de facto disparate impact quotas, numbers count. And by diminishing the size of your group, you just make things worse for everybody in your group.
RedPhillips on 23 Mar 2010 at 5:39 pm #
This gets at the PC/Cultural Marxist paradigm. Conservative whites are at best allowed to be “colorblind.” But all other races get to embrace theirs with pride.
(Ideally whites are to be self loathers who publicly flagellate themselves for their whiteness. But conservative whites won’t go for this so they embrace the most conservative possible position that still allows them to avoid being called a racist, “colorblindness.”)
Get the Kids Away from the Television on 23 Mar 2010 at 5:44 pm #
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Feles on 25 Mar 2010 at 7:26 pm #
Whites can still be proud of their ethnicity, which is distinct from race: One can be proud of their Irish heritage, German heritage, English heritage, Polish heritage, etc.
Furthermore, the US Census bureau, being a bureaucracy, is not quite right in its view of what constitutes a “race”. Strictly speaking, Hispanics are not a race; they are an ethnic group, and racially are white or at least part white, since some Hispanics also have native American heritage (but not necessarily).
Bede on 27 Mar 2010 at 3:18 pm #
The better (racial) classification for Hispanics would be: Amerindian / Mestizo