That's what I was looking for. Thanks.
Here are the questions, for those interested:
#3: Forgetting for the moment about the football team, and just thinking about the word itself ... if someone referred to a Native American person as a "redskin," do you think that Native American person would have the right to feel offended?
#4: The former CEO of the Oakland Raiders has said it would be unacceptable if the name "Redskins" were instead any other negative term used against other races. Do you agree with this statement? Disagree? Or have no opinion?
#5: The word "redskin" is listed as offensive in dictionaries, and considered a racial slur by many Native Americans. Does this make you more likely to say the team should change its name? Less likely? Or make no difference either way?
#10: If Snyder does attend the meeting, would it be appropriate? Or inappropriate? For him to use the term "redskins" when talking NOT about the football team, but when talking about Native Americans themselves?
#11: Recently, both Democratic and Republican elected officials, including President Obama, have been supportive of the idea of changing the team's name. Aditionally, a psychologist has concluded the name has a negative impact on the self-image of Native American children. If the team DID decide to change its name ... would you be comfortable? Or uncomfortable? With their decision to make the change?
This "poll" is a joke. right?
#3 - Ignoring the context in which a word is used is simply ridiculous. Consider words such as Black or Jew, which have both been used in certain contexts in a highly derogatory fashion. Context is crucial and cannot be ignored, and that is what the question asks from the answerer. No wonder you will get a distorted answer.
# 4 - "any other negative term" assumes that Redskin in the context of the Washington professional football team is a negative term. It is not. It does not meet the requirements for being a dergogatory term, i.e. the necessary context and the derogatory intention of the user.
# 5 - Lots of words can be used in a derogatrory manner. Do the dictionaries being invoked point this out for the other words too, or only for Redskin and a few other words? If the dictionaries are faulty on the complete meaning of this word, then why should we pay attention to them? If they are not, then why do we read them selectively and apply meanings that are inappropriate in the context of usage and intention?
#10 - Once again context and intention are essential for understanding the meaning of words.
# 11 - Really? Politicians trying to grandstand for the ignorant who need pc to tell them what to think. Never heard of this before. Is there any subject for which some psychologists have not concluded whatever you could possibly imagine and it's opposite? (Oh really? You mean a real psychologist? I bet he had glasses, a white coat, a beard, and maybe a funny accent.) If your thinking is under the sway of such influences, you will indeed be easily confused and misled. I, and every other thinking person, ought to be uncomfortable whenever understanding the meaning of words based on their context and the intentions of the speaker, which is a basic civilized norm, is sacrificed on any altar of ignorance and misunderstanding, however widespread, including pc.