I recently had coffee with a good friend. We get together once a week to discuss ideas and enjoy some deep discussions surrounding our respective projects. In this particular conversation, he brought up the fact that a one word term he often uses, as many in our field do, has become increasingly uncomfortable to him. He mentioned that this word he used to describe a certain subset of people, while in some ways accurate, in many ways he felt was deeply wrong. In fact, he stated, it had become a primary goal of his to eradicate his use of it and urge others to follow. When he told me what the word was, I understood immediately why he was not comfortable. The word was,…