> disadvanta… err um hard working communities who have boots on the ground experience! You may jest, but this is a serious point. I think I would much rather b

> disadvanta… err um hard working communities who have boots on the ground experience! You may jest, but this is a serious point. I think I would much rather be accommodated without comment or with respect than be accommodated as a “disadvantaged” person or a person suffering from “trauma”. On a somewhat related note, could you all please stop asking me to select my race out of a dropdown of boxes, none of which actually match how I think of myself, and also whether, if I said “white” I actually meant “Hispanic”? This is (a) generally none of your business, (b) kind of offensive, (c) thoroughly fails to capture the racial/ethnic identity of a whole lot of people, making it rather less useful even for statistical purposes than you might like to imagine. (Did whoever made this list realize that mixed people exist and are actually very very common? And that people who are quite unmixed but don’t fit any of the categories well are also common. Or that, especially for medical genetic purposes, there are all manner of useful questions one could ask about someone’s ancestry, of which basically none are captured by the list?)