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Forums can sometimes be very sleepy places.
At other times, there will be something that catches everyone's imagination, or pushes the wrong button for them, and then suddenly you can be knee deep in electronic indignation in a matter of hours. This was one of those occasions. With the deliberate exception of the last one, these are all terms which we can appropriate to describe ourselves and be happy to be described AS, so long as they're appropriate. What distinguishes those who do, however, is the associations attached to the idea of ethnicity, and to all the synonyms and euphemisms coined to bury the unpleasant assumptions of our ancestors. The hundreds of people now flocking to join the campaign, and the growing support in legal and governmental circles have only happened because we've rewritten the definition of a word.