{"id":51103,"date":"2026-03-03T00:04:21","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T05:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=51103"},"modified":"2026-03-03T00:04:55","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T05:04:55","slug":"this-is-where-im-at-with-my-trust-in-my-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=51103","title":{"rendered":"This is where I\u2019m at with my trust in my country"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"I got a thing in the mail from the US Census Bureau today, that wasn\u2019t the next official US Census, but something called the American Community Survey.\u00a0 My address was \u201crandomly selected,\u201d and it\u2019s claiming to be collecting information to decide where important services are needed:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 Improving roads and reducing traffic<\/span>
\n\u2022 Building schools<\/span>
\n\u2022 Planning for the health care needs of the elderly<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As a dutiful American, I took the time to fill out the survey in regards to my household, but I couldn\u2019t help but notice just how tremendously thorough the survey seemed to be at gathering the specific racial breakdown of my household.\u00a0 Mythical wife and I often joke about how we would conveniently tweak our children\u2019s ethnic checkboxes to give them the most advantage in various situations, and considering the state of our nation as it is today, I had half a mind to just put my kids in as just \u201cwhite\u201d because there seems to be little benefit to being anything other than such, and it\u2019s not like I\u2019m completely lying, seeing as how my little girls are 50% white.<\/span><\/p>\n

However, it\u2019s apparent that \u201cwhite\u201d isn\u2019t sufficient enough on the ACS, because there\u2019s not only just a checkbox for white, but a text field asking for specificity on what kind<\/em> of white; English, Irish, German, etc, and naturally the survey makes it a mandatory field where you cannot continue without some sort of clarity.\u00a0 For once in my life, white people have it harder than I do, whereas all I had to do was check Korean, and that\u2019s it.<\/span><\/p>\n

It’s like they\u2019re trying to filter out the people who can pass for as white, and make sure that the light-skinned Spaniards, Middle Eastern, Western Asia, and South Americans, who might be Latinos or Muslims or any other un-\u2018Murican category can\u2019t be existing the country in plain sight.<\/span><\/p>\n

I played it straight, and entered both of my kids as Korean as well as white + whatever specificity mythical wife could surmise was her background, because I have this paranoia that the US Government already knows the answers to the questions they\u2019re asking, and this whole thing is a gigantic government-sanctioned phishing quest to find out what Americans are liars, and then target them for some sort of federal retribution.<\/span><\/p>\n

However, by the time I got to the point of the survey where I was down to the final screen where my final buttons were \u201creview\u201d and \u201csubmit,\u201d I couldn\u2019t help but notice that about 85% of the survey was entering in racial information to an uncomfortably granular degree, and there were a few sections dedicated to asking about cars in the household, and level of education of the residents of the home.<\/span><\/p>\n

Considering there are basically concentration camps being not-so-silently built throughout the country to capture and detain and worse, minorities, ICE raids and acts of murder, the timing of the ACS is extremely unnerving and gives me an overwhelming feeling of distrust that this isn\u2019t being done for the altruistic purposes it claims to be gathering information for.<\/span><\/p>\n

But it\u2019s got to be legit, it\u2019s from the US Government!<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Yes I am aware, and frankly that\u2019s precisely why I don\u2019t trust it, because that\u2019s where I\u2019m at with my trust in the country, to where I\u2019m scared to be compliant and submit my information, for fear that my response gets filtered into a bucket of people and households that aren\u2019t the preferred pool of just white people, and puts me on the radar for a future ICE raid or federal scrutiny, because I\u2019m not white.\u00a0 There\u2019s little to reason to believe that my spouse being white, and my kids being half-white would give them any more protection, and I don\u2019t want them to be categorized as future targets, especially at this stage of their lives.<\/span><\/p>\n

Needless to say, I did not hit submit on my survey, and short of being strong-armed in the future through some strongly-worded follow-up snail mail or actual communicative contact, I\u2019m in no rush to do so.\u00a0 Because I do not trust the United States government at all these days, more than ever, and the ACS just reeks of racial information gathering, and I have zero faith that this information won\u2019t be used for anything that isn\u2019t nefarious or malicious towards minorities.<\/span><\/p>\n

It is sad and pathetic that I feel this way, and it sucks knowing that no matter how good of an American I try to be, I\u2019m always going to be looked at as a second-rate human being by the people who run the country, because I\u2019m not white.\u00a0 Yes it\u2019s not lost on me that Asians are among the more tolerated minorities in the country, but when white people can\u2019t seem to figure out how to eliminate more black people, and they feel that Hispanics are too lofty a goal to try to eliminate, they\u2019re going to target Asians, if they already aren\u2019t, just to feel like they\u2019re getting some traction somewhere.<\/span><\/p>\n

It’s like playing a really hard video game, getting frustrated by it, and dropping the difficulty down just to feel good about yourself.\u00a0 \u2018Murican government probably doesn\u2019t operate much differently, and as a result, I have no faith in them at all, nor am I in any rush to be complicit with submitting my ACS survey information.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I got a thing in the mail from the US Census Bureau today, that wasn\u2019t the next official US Census, but something called the American Community Survey.\u00a0 My address was \u201crandomly selected,\u201d and it\u2019s claiming to be collecting information to decide where important services are needed: \u2022 Improving roads and reducing traffic \u2022 Building schools … Continue reading This is where I\u2019m at with my trust in my country<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[176,45,72,83,165,89,49],"class_list":["post-51103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-murica","tag-fail","tag-government","tag-observations","tag-politics","tag-racism","tag-wtf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51103"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51106,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51103\/revisions\/51106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}