Have you not been paying attention? As if racial set-asides weren’t already marbled throughout governments at all levels, the current administration has upped their use even more. The federal government is literally spending billions expressly trying to tell this to any and all minorities, so they can maximize their counts.
Filling in the census as ‘human’ or not at all is a little like voting for the unelectable fringe candidate: many Freepers seem to enjoy the exercise, but it has real-world consequences.