I used to just check White and that was it. Now I will mark other and list my predominant cultural heritage English and Norwegian. Do you think this is a mistake? Should I be broader and say European heritage? Should I just mark the White box?
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Leave it blank.
It's none of their business.
Communists love forms and collecting data.
Don't give it to them. It annoys them so much.
Generally bad data is worse than no data. It's why the institutional pushback for ad-nauseam was so much worse than for regular old ad-blockers, because it fucked up the marketing data way more effectively.
So yeah, they deserve nothing, but if you really want to fuck with them, give them gibberish.
If Lizardman's Constant isn't constant, it wreaks beautiful havoc.
All else being equal you're right: it's none of their business.
20 years ago the right tried to make it illegal to collect this sort of data because it was "none of their business". The left screamed bloody murder about that, so it never happened.
Now your best bet is to make the data and categories meaningless. For everything else they want you to be able to choose your own identity, so if you most identify with your African ancestors from 50,000 years ago then who are they to say otherwise?