Task Force Fighting to Queer the Census

There certainly is a worst case scenario for race based census taking, such as: the Japanese internment of the 1940's or more recently in 1994 Rwanda the "tutsi massacare" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rwandan_Genocide was enabled by ID cards

The real issue is the discrimination of single people(of any race or gender orientation), why do married people has more(or different) rights/privlidges than single people ?

anybody want to come over on april 1st and have gay sex, then we can count it as single gay guy residence.

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I don't feel strongly one way or the other as to whether or not sexual orientation / gender identification would be included in the census, but I do find the reasoning of some of the comments above a bit troubling. To compare a person's sexual orientation to "politics" or things that are choices (e.g. religion, political party affiliation) is a serious mistake. They are not the same thing.

In addition, I find it kind of disrespectful to dismiss activism from the most institutionally repressed and discriminated against segment of our population as "meaningless" or "stupid" or "BS."

just as race has one answer, human(that comes in many forms) sexual orientation is one sexuality that comes in many different variations.

people who try fit the types of sex people have into a check boxes are playing politics, just like YOU are when you say 'you can't disagree with them, because they're

'the most institutionally repressed and discriminated against segment of our population'

haha

Your point is valid. I don't disagree with you, but if you read what I wrote, I didn't say anything about you not being able to disagree with the LGBT population over this topic because of their being discriminated against. I just didn't care for the dismissive adjectives used by several people to describe this group's efforts, that's all.

"In addition, I find it kind of disrespectful to dismiss activism from the most institutionally repressed and discriminated against segment of our population as "meaningless" or "stupid" or "BS."

If you're referring to my comment, you're way out of line.

There's a time and a place for activism (of any kind).

And it's not this year's census.

A good and data-rich census is useful for a wide variety of studies and is one of the single most informative tools that researchers in every social field have available.

However, you can't tack things like this on because all you're going to get is a self-selecting survey comprised of incomplete data running on an unscientific methodology. In short, totally meaningless numbers.

Wrong place for this BS.

The census is also the wrong place for all those invasive 'racial' questions.

It's 2010, enough already.

Take a headcount and move on.

I don't understand these sorts of things. If you want equal rights who gives a flying poop if you're gay or straight. If you're married you're married. If not then you're lucky.

It sounds like you don't understand a lot of things. Probably best not to speak.

Why do you say that? Gotta explain yourself before accusing me of not understanding "a lot" of things. I'm pretty sure we're only talking about one thing here.

Try applying for government services as a mere individual, though.

We all use these services, and they are distributed on the basis of demographic information like that recorded in the Census.

So, each person who decides not to participate in the Census is simply screwing himself, and his community.

none of the extraneous questions are necessary.

categorize people objectively based on income, based on wealth, universal, quantifiable things. Thats alls that necessary.

yeah, you should return the census, but I wont give them any information besides the number of human beings living in my household.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imagine_(song).

The only other things they ask are race and age. What's the big deal? People can find out more information about you than that by doing a simple google search. Get a grip.

after pearl harbor, do you know how they found the japanese americans that they then put in 'camps'?

do you know?

yeah, the census.

smarten up.

http://www.seattlepi.com/national/cens17.shtml

On Dec. 9, 1941, two days after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Census Bureau produced a report titled, "Japanese Population of the United States, Its Territories and Possessions." The next day it issued a report on the Japanese population by citizenship and place of birth in selected cities. The next day it published another report, this one on the Japanese population by counties in states on the West Coast. All reports were based on data from the 1940 census.

hahaha,,,exactly my point, theres no point for a census unless its to actually DENY services, white america will always say theres too many hispanics or muslims in a certain area, and the census will PROVE that the government will need to cut back on services to illegals and outsiders, not provide more services, if you believe that the census helps, then why exactly was the confidential private census data used to round up japanese americans? next muslims? jews? dominicans?

this makes perfect sense

"telling people to put down only how many people are living in their household. One boycott website claims, "Nosy Census bureaucrats have no business asking all these questions."

In the long term, all this institutionalizing of the what ethnic group you consider yourself, what religious beliefs you have or how you like to have s*x, will be a terrible thing.

You are a person. I'll give you the Male/female thing, but beyond that, its politics. I dont care and neither should the goverment. In the end it will divide us. One society, made up of millions of individual people, thats all we are.

Waste of more time and money.

Meaningless & stupid. The census should not be a vehicle for this type of thing.

Start with other types of recognition first before moving on to the census.

Agree completely. The census is a headcount for purposes of budgetary, infrastructure, and city planning. That's it. No more, no less. It doesn't ask you about your religion, or your political affiliation, or any of that because it doesn't matter.

Turning it into some "fight for equality" is just a waste of time and energy. Find somewhere else to direct your indignation, people.