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i understand what the dunedan said--i don't agree with it, particularly not the nonsense about acorn, but whatever---but i wonder if there's something more to this action from the far right. what are they worried about exactly? the census is a useful policy tool at all levels of government: it's good to know populations, its good to know more information rather than less if you want to fashion coherent policy. don't you think?
because of what i worked on academically, i know more about the ways in which census data is used in the french context than in the american--there it's one of the more base-level datasets for the technocratic aspects of policy formation and implementation. it's also an ideological grid, but any survey no matter who does it is an ideological grid one way or another.
so i don't get it. is there more to these objections than what dunedan outlined?
btw this is a real question.
i genuinely am baffled by it.
maybe if i end up not spending the next couple days tied up with a music festival, i'll do some research, but haven't yet.
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