Casual Observation

It doesn’t seem to make any sense to poll the public at large about whether “Redskins” is an offensive racial slur. Is it a big surprise that the majority of non-Native Americans think that the term is unoffensive? Non-Chinese people probably think it’s perfectly fine to run a restaurant called “Chink’s.” Is that how we decide whether something is offensive?

Author: BooMan

Martin Longman a contributing editor at the Washington Monthly. He is also the founder of Booman Tribune and Progress Pond. He has a degree in philosophy from Western Michigan University.