[sportscurmudgeon]

I don't get upset about the team nickname. Change it or leave it as it is; I really don't care.

I agree that one's persepctive and upbringing and ethnicity colors how one reacts to certain words and images. I also think that there is a cottage industry out there of people who are spring loaded to take offense at just about anything and make a stink about it. Those are the people who bother me.

PETA protested that the Packers should change their name because it glorified what happened in slaughterhouses. That's an example of being spring loaded to be pissed off about anything.

Several years ago, I did an article on how easy it was to be offended by words if all you were doing was trying to find a way to take offense. I think it is important to separate - if at al possible - people who are genuinely offended from the professional "offense-takers" and deal with them very differently.