Good point and thank you for the book recommendation. My comment was not on why the term is being used today but merely the fact that I don't like it, because

Good point and thank you for the book recommendation. My comment was not on why the term is being used today but merely the fact that I don't like it, because it solidifies the racist pseudosciences in our culture in a way. It just feels wrong to me to speak the lingo of an enemy. At the same time, as you said the term is here for a reason, so simply changing or ignoring it won't change the underlying problem. Thinking about it, it might even be a good thing that using, reading or hearing the term stings. It reminds us of how incredibly frustrating the problem is. It appears so simple and arbitrary, is insufferably harmful and it should not exist in the first place, but here we are still.