And next up, the census will be asking about sexual orientation and gender identity.
Islamic groups had been demanding a special census category for a while and now they’re getting one.
The Biden administration signed off on “Middle Eastern or North African” checkbox on the next census. While in theory the checkbox applies to non-Muslims (including me, as I was born in Israel), it’s meant to be a category that Muslims will claim to represent.
Much like the term “Asian” in the UK came to be co-opted by Islamic groups, Muslim organizations will claim to represent and speak for those in the MENA category, amplifying their power and influence.
We at the Freedom Center have been warning about the MENA category for some time.
Here’s Bruce Thornton in 2016.
The White House is frank about how altering the census would make this happen: impacting how the Voting Rights Act is enforced and Congressional districts are drawn; creating affirmative action plans and monitoring discrimination in housing, bank lending, and education; and identifying new recipients of government largess. That is, targeting those who would be inclined to vote Democrat once they are the beneficiaries of more government patronage. In addition, since most of these people identify as “white” on the current census, giving them a different option would support the Democrats’ narrative of a demographic shift that is reducing whites to a minority, and that will create The Coming Democrat Majority, as John Judis and Ruy Teixera called it in their 2004 book.
And Lloyd Billingsley in 2017.
In late September, the White House office of Management and Budget proposed a new racial classification: MENA, standing for Middle East and North Africans and covering the vast area from Morocco to Iran. In the best politically correct style, many national, ethnic and racial identities disappear within the group category, like drops of water in a pond. MENA is essentially the rebadging of Muslims and as with other categories the basis for handing out government benefits and further dividing the nation into oppressed and oppressor classes.
The president was counting on his designated successor, Hillary Clinton, to get MENA approved by Congress in 2018 so it could be deployed in the 2020 Census. The new Congress should give MENA the boot, dump the entire classification system, and abolish race and ethnic preferences in government employment.
A Republican administration should jettison the MENA category because it’s an Islamic trojan horse. The census needs major reform, beginning with the return of the ‘citizenship’ question, and should end identity politics questions in general.
A country of equals, people not races or creeds, shouldn’t be asking people what race or ethnicity they are anyway.
And next up, the census will be pursuing sexual identity politics.
The U.S. Census Bureau asked the Biden administration Tuesday for permission to test questions about sexual orientation and gender identity for people age 15 and above on its most comprehensive annual survey of life in the country.
Over 15. Enough said.
These census abuses are used purely to advance leftist politics and divide the country while allowing the Left to expand its victimhood groups and define the country on its terms.
somehistory says
If it’s illegal for businesses to ask potential employees for such information as age, and other personal stuff, why is it okay for the government to do so and demand that everyone answer?
One of the ‘laws’ of the land is that if the public can do something, the government can too. There was a test case about listening to a phone call made from a phone booth (now just about like the Dodo bird) with the Court deciding that if a regular citizen couldn’t have access, neither could LE.
So, why does the fed have the lawful ability to make people tell them stuff they might not have to say in a Court of Law?
During the last census, I was approached at my front door over and over, by various people, demanding that I fill out the census form, which had already been done. I guess they wanted to count me and mine over and over, or perhaps get me to reveal extra things I hadn’t put on the form.
bo started the include mozlums so they could vote in other mozlums. That is the whole point of putting a new category on the form.
They should also include questions….which mozlums wouldn’t truthfully answer….about terror ties, lies and barracks involvement.
Question 72: How many wives do you have? If more than one, how many are Under the age of 18? Under the age of 12? The age of 6?
Question 73: How many in your household are “possessing” children in an intimate …so-called “marriage”? How many of those infants and children are beaten daily?
Q74: How many in your household are in the habit of constructing explosives?
Let’s see some questions like those.
Big Dude says
Brilliant. HOW MANY WIVES ARE YOU MARRIED TO RIGHT NOW ACCORDING TO THE LAWS OF THE RELIGION YOU FOLLOW.
somehistory says
Thank you, Big Dude
Big Dude says
How many wives do you have right to whom you are legally married according to your religion. HOW OLD IS EACH. FOR HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN LEGALLY MARRIED TO EACH ACCORDING TO THE RELIGION YOU SAY YOU FOLLOW
rick says
‘Middle East” should be further broken down into Muslim, Jewish, Christian and Other. Otherwise it really means nothing.
maria says
Middle East must get rid of all muslims for ever.
No muslims in Middle East, Afrika, Europe, the US , Central and South Amerika , Australia and new Zealand.
Only then can the whole world can live in peace and love
Islam must be destroyed
Sharon says
Take Note from Londonistan .
Stop importing terrorists
.Especially Hamas jihadists supporters .
Rick Gordon says
This administration – as well as some previous Democrat administrations – want to use our census to further identify/delineate identity groups. It seems that the belief in the ‘melting pot’ that served our country so well in the past must be replaced by multi-cultural ethnic groups that work/fight against each other. In other words, find the ‘other’ and rid them of any authority in our country’s future.
BeccaR says
The melting pot made forAmerica excellence and exceptionalism. The unique contributions of the many under an a sigle umbrella of Americanism.
These progressives are sure regressive. Maybe they should include a question on the ballot in the next election cycle: How many vote for making Sharia the law of the land? It’s coming to a neighborhood near you soon.
mike says
lets ask if they belong to ISIS
kenek says
So much for the “melting pot”. The founding principles of the USA are being eliminated.
Democrats == communists, they hate America.
Goofy says
According to Islam the Muslims have the right, even the obligation to lie when it serves the interest of their religion. Lying is an integral part of their religious freedom!
That should be respected, not least as the Government appears to follow the same Islamic principle dealing with its citizens.
It is none of the Government’s to ask questions which are outside the realm which we voted the government to deal with.
And as long as the Government cannot be relied on to inform the citizens about how many illegals are roaming around in the country or make sure that only those votes cast legally by its citizens are counted, we have no obligation to report anything about ourselves to it.
OLD GUY says
Simple answer for this nobody return the forms.