Because it really isn’t about what the alleged offended minority thinks, it’s about what liberal orthodoxy demands.
Via WaPo:
Prominent members of the news media who have criticized the Redskins name say they aren’t changing their opinions about it despite a new Washington Post poll indicating that the vast majority of American Indians aren’t offended by it.
They insist that the issue is personal to them and that no poll can persuade them to write or utter the team name in their columns and broadcasts.
The media have critiqued the team’s name for decades, but the clamor against it has been loudest in recent years.
Bob Costas, the NBC Sports broadcaster, said he decided several years ago that the name was inappropriate and chose not to use it. He most famously weighed in against it during halftime of a Redskins-Cowboys game in 2013, telling viewers that the name is “an insult, a slur, no matter how benign the present-day intent.”
On Thursday, a few hours after the release of The Post’s poll showing that 90 percent of Indians weren’t bothered by the team’s name, Costas stood firm.