Reminds me of my five-year-old having a temper tantrum when he doesn’t get his way.

Via USA Today:

The Oneida Indian Nation says it believes more Americans would favor changing the team name of the Washington NFL club if they understood the full context of what the Oneidas and others consider a racial slur.

“Daniel Snyder’s pathological devotion to denigrating Native Americans apparently knows no bounds,” Joel Barkin, an Oneida spokesman, said Friday. “Rather than standing on the right side of history and ending the name that his segregationist predecessor gave Washington’s team, he is now citing a deeply flawed poll purporting to show support for the R-word.”

The team said Thursday that a poll showing that 71% support keeping the name “demonstrates continued, widespread and deep opposition to the Redskins changing our name.” The poll released by Public Policy Polling found 18% said the team should change it and 11% said they are not sure. The margin of error is plus or minus 3.6 percentage points.

“Incredibly, in asking Americans their opinion of the R-word, this poll deliberately omitted the fact that the term is a dictionary-defined racial slur that social science data proves has destructive public health consequences for Native Americans,” Barkin said. “We are confident that when given all the facts, most Americans do not support denigrating any group with slurs.”

Tom Jensen, director of Public Policy Polling, said his firm asked the question “in the most straightforward way possible. We don’t have a dog in this fight.” He pointed out that an AP poll last April found 79% favored keeping the name, indicating that while public support for the name remains strong, it appears to be eroding.