Just thought I'd point to to recent similar threads to keep all the PC references together on this, and throw everything into the pot (as it were).

Here's one on the historical designations BC/AD ...and the new BCE:
The Language Mutates
http://wordsmith.org/board/showflat.pl?Cat=&Board=miscellany&Number=83689

The Founding Brothers
http://wordsmith.org/board/showflat.pl?Cat=&Board=miscellany&Number=89888

Niggardly/Offensive terms/PC another recent, extensive discussion from September, '02
http://wordsmith.org/board/showflat.pl?Cat=&Board=words&Number=80265

Political Correctness 6/12/02
http://wordsmith.org/board/showflat.pl?Cat=&Board=words&Number=72847

And the granddaddy (grandmommy, grandcodger? ) of all the PC threads, the original Political Correctness, from 7/20/2000, alphatized by the one and only tsuwm ...a lengthy and intriguing discussion:

http://wordsmith.org/board/showflat.pl?Cat=&Board=words&Number=2786