On 2012-03-14, at 11:51 AM, Carrol Cox wrote:
> The word carries the implication that there is such a thing as "race," and
> that premise is central to racism. There is and should be a stigma attached
> to the word. It's racist.
In Nazi Germany, the Nuremberg Laws would have designated my wife as a "mischling of the second degree", having had one Jewish grandparent. The Israeli Law of Return would today admit her on the same basis. This disgusting irony has been widely noted.