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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Epic Meepo" data-source="post: 9133943" data-attributes="member: 57073">As a member of a family with mixed African, East Asian, and European roots, including multiple interracial relationships and various children of mixed ethnicity, I would like to politely request that you stop making absolutist statements about what “must” be done to accommodate people of multicultural backgrounds (and/or multiethnic backgrounds, whichever terminology you prefer to use).If you happen to be from a multicultural/multiethnic family as I am, I would like to remind you that such families are not a monolithic group. Our family backgrounds do not give either of us the moral authority to tell people what they “must” do to accommodate all multicultural and/or multiethnic individuals. Neither of us is the official spokesperson for that entire demographic.If you aren’t from a multicultural/multiethnic family as I am, I would like to request that you stop appropriating my real-life cultural and ethnic experiences as a talking point in your arguments. Doing so runs the risk of treating real-life human beings as mere means to an end, thereby dehumanizing them. If someone has explicitly asked you to advocate on their behalf, by all means do so. Otherwise, please stop.</blockquote>