>Here in Norway the authorities are under pressure to legalize personalized license plates on cars. One of the most active persons is a successful immigrant from Pakistan. He want to have the words "PAKKIS" on his car. If I would say "Pakkis" in public, I would without a doubt be called a racist by most Norwegians, but most people from Pakistan would not react negatively at all.

Back in 1972 a new derogatory term appeared: bosancheros. The local Bosnians didn't take it lightly and you may get into a fight if you used it in their presence. Which lasted about two weeks. Then the word appeared on the side of a bus, the one on the line to the nearest Bosnian village. They scratched it with a nail by themselves, thus symbolically taking ownership of the term.

>A similar case is the pressure the electronic industry is facing. When logic integrated circuits were designed, some of them were called Master Slave Flip-Flops. Now, after having used this term for more than forty years, activists want the industry to change this term. Some people even want to forbid the word Server in computer terminology. Will this stupidity never end?

How about erasing cigarettes from historic photographs? The one from Yalta appeared in our daughter's history textbook without it. I've even seen album covers where the picture on the reissue is censored.

What's next?

>NB! I never really understood why it is bad to refer to people's skin color, while it is perfectly accepted to refer to their hair color...!

Eye color too.