I’ll take a scientific poll over your anecdotes any day.

You sure did use the word “some” in your examples a lot. I noticed you never used the words “the vast majority” a single time, which would be more accurate to what we have here in this instance. Gosh, I wonder why?

It’s just as dumb to refer to, in speech, Native Americans as Redskins as it is to refer to Scandinavians from Minnesota as Vikings. That does not mean the term is offensive.

No, I’d ask if all you Indians are good with it, because it turns out on tribal lands most prefer to be referred to in the singular and plural as Indian/Indians. Native American is actually more offensive to some that I have talked to; as far as disingenuous goes, I grew up in Oklahoma near Muskogee and knew quite a…

And as I said, you buffoon, it’s a dumb team name that reduces a group of people to a bare representation and a caricature, just as “Vikings” reduce a whole culture of people to a mascot. People of Swedish, Danish and Icelandic descent don’t find it offensive (just stupid), and Native Americans don’t find “Redskin”…

They haven’t asked me to call them that; they just said they don’t mind. And As I told the other easily offended commenter here, I don’t call them that for the same reason I don’t refer to people from San Francisco as 49ers or people from New England as Patriots.

The Native Americans polled don’t believe it’s a racial slur. I will take their word for it.

Native Americans have power *right now* to determine if the name is offensive to them. And they have chosen to say, with a clear voice, that it, by and large, is not. A very small and loud minority disagree with them, but they are just that...a minority.

Their power is right now, to determine if the name “Redskins” is offensive to them. And they have said clearly and overwhelmingly, in multiple polls, that it is not.

Except most native Americans polled don’t believe it’s a racial slur. Just because you, a (presumably) non-Native American *declare* it to be a racial slur doesn’t make it so.

Nope, I hate the alt-right and I don’t hate antifa.

Because “Redskin” is a mascot name and mascot names can’t have opinions. Native Americans can though. I bet you are offended by the term “Fighting Irish” even when most Irish folks aren’t too.

I’m a racist when I listen to what most Native Americans have to say on the matter? In fact, by ignoring the MAJORITY of Native American opinion on the matter, that pretty clearly makes you the racist.

Fortunately you don’t have to go with a gut instinct. You can actually look at what Native Americans *actually* say when polled, and it’s pretty clear cut. Most Native Americans don’t find the term Redskins offensive. Why are you ignoring their voice?

It’s not relevant, as the article specifically states that the polls showed a huge incongruity between the leadership of Native Americans and what the average Native American *actually* believes on the matter. The fact that a very small portion of Native Americans are loudly opposed to the name doesn’t change the…

Who does that, really?

I’m assuming the point of this is to show that because people would be offended by the first two, they should also be offended by the last one. Except you ignored the poll...Native Americans THEMSELVES, in a pretty robust poll, say they are not offended.

“Among the Native Americans reached over a five-month period…

Why do people keep promoting the idea the name is racist? Native Americans, by and large, are *not* offended by the name.

Tweetstorms are stupid. Back when I was a kid, we had these things we used when we had an idea that took more than just a few characters to express.

The problem is that this hurricane is supposed to go from south to north. So at some point people will start heading south again, en masse...through the remnants of the storm. While there may not be quite as much wind, there certainly will be a ton of rain.