Is the name "Washington Redskins" in any way insulting, derogatory or offensive?

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72. Is that all

you got from my post?

Seriously?

First, I never SAID I was more offended about being asked the question than about whether the name actually offends someone.

What I find offensive is when someone not in the target group takes it upon him/her self to be offended FOR someone else, and then runs around saying in an oblique way that anyone who doesn't find the word or term offensive is some kind of filthy racist.

What about that handful of Native Americans in the poll who said they aren't offended by the term?

Are they filthy racists too?

Or are they too stupid (by your standards?) to know they should be offended?


I also find polls of this nature to be offensive AND divisive.

As the saying goes, I was born at night, but not last night.

Some polls are done to get information with no set agenda in mind.

and then other polls...like this one...seem to be started in order to judge who's a "good" DUer and who's a "bad" DUer, depending on the "correct" answer.


So unless you can say with all honesty that people who don't find the name "Redskins" offensive are not racist assholes, then it's pretty plain what the purpose of this poll is.


Post poll. Wait for people to vote. Look at names. All "good" DUers chose Yes. All "bad" DUers chose no. And maybe even people who didn't make a yes or no vote are "bad" DUers as well, since they obviously didn't have the honor to choose the correct answer, right?

Alrighty, then...got it loud and clear.