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Re:The 2020 census is being ‘sabotaged,’ says leading U.S. s... by Schiendelman on Saturday October 17, 2020 @09:29AM (#24809833)
Please don’t strawman on HN.
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Re:The 2020 census is being ‘sabotaged,’ says leading U.S. s... by rubyist5eva on Saturday October 17, 2020 @09:36AM (#24809876)
I didn't strawman anything. Original question was asking about race discrimination and the response was about "poor people".
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Re:The 2020 census is being ‘sabotaged,’ says leading U.S. s... by kube-system on Saturday October 17, 2020 @09:47AM (#24809933)
The original question asked

> Is it more to do with poverty than race

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Re:The 2020 census is being ‘sabotaged,’ says leading U.S. s... by rubyist5eva on Saturday October 17, 2020 @10:13AM (#24810106)
Fair enough, I misinterpreted the original question because the quoted part of the article did not reference poverty. Thank you.
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Re:The 2020 census is being ‘sabotaged,’ says leading U.S. s... by RonaldRaygun on Saturday October 17, 2020 @09:50AM (#24809956)
> Is it more to do with poverty than race?

I believe they were specifically addressing this part of the parent comment. A benevolent reading of the reply would not point towards this rather blatantly racist interpretation of its meaning.

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