For the first time in 27 years, the U.S. government is changing how it categorizes people by race and ethnicity.

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.eeEnglish
    10•8 months ago

    This is moving the goal posts. Why would I follow you to the next point if you won’t even admit the previous point was false?

    • Flying Squid
      -4•8 months ago

      If institutional racism has gotten worse and the only things being done are performative, I stand by my claim.

      • @EatATaco@lemm.eeEnglish
        7•8 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?

        • Flying Squid
          -4•8 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.

          • @EatATaco@lemm.eeEnglish
            5•8 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.

            • Flying Squid
              -3•8 months ago

              I’m arguing that something that happened in the 1960s has absolutely no bearing on the government doing nothing to help with institutional racism in 2024 as it slides backward.

              You do know that this isn’t 1964 and Lyndon Johnson isn’t the president anymore, right?

              • @EatATaco@lemm.eeEnglish
                7•8 months ago

                It’s funny how much you are going out of your way and misrepresenting my position to avoid actually supporting yours. Do you not realize how transparent that is?

                • Flying Squid
                  -4•8 months ago

                  Your position apparently is that the entire government isn’t working against people of color in 2024 because of something that happened 60 years ago. Now if you want to give an example of something the government is doing in 2024, feel free.