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Words are not just words. Words have meanings. As people that are supposed to be communicate effectively, we use words that are the most appropriate for the situation. By the selection of one's words, one can show himself to be ignorant and inconsiderate.
As a polite society, we've decided that a group of people should be allowed to name themselves. Oriental and Occidental are ways to differentiate two types of people, but we don't use the former because Asians object to the history and the meaning.
Chiropractors don't post in a forum called Quack Talk. They're probably smarter than us in that respect.
My point was that in some states, their laws refer to MDs as Allopathic physicians (i.e. that's the legal name for MDs in those states); The OP and others on this thread were making it sound like it's an uncommon term used as a derogatory term or only on SDN.
Also, to use the example you used and compare or equate racial bigotry, to calling MDs allopathic physicians is disrespectful to those races at best.
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