&gt; Anyway, I don&#x27;t think I&#x27;ll shall stop using the term.<p>Given the pervasive way Republicans have aggressively and consistently used the term for longer than most people have been alive, I can understand its use in ignorance by people whose information sources have skewed to a Republican bias. But, if after your ignorance is cured, you are <i>knowingly and deliberately</i> using a term for a party that has been pretty much exclusively used as a hostile epithet by political opponents of that party for more than half a century, that&#x27;s kind of telling.