Even Barack Obama condemned the use of this term when running for president in 2008.
-How does the use of this term harm the people that it supposedly describes?
We should avoid reflexive use of this term until the historical dust has settled.
"I am a dissenter on the use of this term...I would have eliminated it if it were up to me alone.
I found the use of this term offensive when applied to a place, however beautiful, built by a slaveholder, as Jefferson was.
"If some Native Americans were offended by the use of this term, I'm sorry that they're so wrong," the expert said.
Personally, what I find offensive about all this is not the use of the word mong per se but the amount of publicity that has surrounded one man's use of this term.
The use of the term "Triple Entente" was particularly telling, given that no alliance between France, Britain and Russia yet existed and that the use of this term was still expressly banned from official British diplomatic reporting.
Use of this term avoids the confusion otherwise produced by using taste to refer specifically to the sensations produced by stimulation of taste receptors, as well as to the combined sensations of taste and smell.
The use of this term employs a word used with devastating results to describe the Tutsi minority and Hutu moderates during the 1994 Rwanda genocide when they were referred to by those responsible for the genocide as "cockroaches".
(It is sometimes referred to as a polar front, but use of this term can cause it to be confused with the meteorological polar front, a condition of wind and atmosphere).
