[michaelfeathers]

I know someone has to have written about this, but I don't know who. My sense is that it is like an unconscious societal arms race. In the presence of prejudice labels take on negative connotations. People notice and use new terms that are free of these connotations. Then the new terms acquire the connotations and the cycle repeats.

Maybe this is the best we can hope for, that we get lulls in the coloration of terms and less prejudice to confront at each new cycle.