It's been going on for a while, very much like how I remember being taught to say gender rather than sex ("it means the same thing, it's just more polite"). It is indeed annoying.
The originators may be people who legitimately believed that observed differences between races were due to ethnicity rather than race, but people who want to promote that view should argue for it explicitly rather than trying to smuggle it in via definitions.
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It's been going on for a while, very much like how I remember being taught to say gender rather than sex ("it means the same thing, it's just more polite"). It is indeed annoying.
The originators may be people who legitimately believed that observed differences between races were due to ethnicity rather than race, but people who want to promote that view should argue for it explicitly rather than trying to smuggle it in via definitions.
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