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don't think twice, because they're thinking about football and touchdowns and merchandise and the Dallas Cowboys game. They're not thinking about the living, breathing people who are hurt by "Redskins," or what widespread acceptance of the nickname says about our collective historical and cultural amnesia, our eager forgetting of the nation's sins.It fails the Full Room test, as in: would you walk into a room full of Native Americans and yell, "Wassup, Redskins?" Of course not. And that makes it wrong—wrong and embarrassing,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], really—as a team nickname.Look, I've done the math. Changing the team's nickname would cost Dan Snyder a good deal of money. Which probably explains his obstinate stance. But it wouldn't bankrupt the franchise. I've looked at other schools and teams that have discarded Native American nicknames. In each and every case, diehard fans resisted change. Got emotional. Decried "political correctness"—and by the way,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], has any term this side of "surreal" become

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