The use of the name Redskins is different to the tag “Yid Army” in one way: where Spurs fans use the Y-word to refer to themselves, to their club’s historic roots in London’s Jewish communities, “redskins” is a term that refers to others, in fact to The Other, as Native Americans were seen for many years, particularly by racists.

Some will argue that it is one thing for an informal community of sports fans to ironically use a pejorative term about themselves, but it’s another thing for a team to use a term that has traditionally been a slur against people that fall outside of its support base.

Perhaps. But the sport-based uses of the Y-word and the R-word also share something very important in common, which is that neither team, neither Spurs fans in Britain nor Redskins fans in the U.S., uses these terms abusively. There’s absolutely no offensive intent. Indeed, these once-shocking words are denuded of their wickedness, emptied of their historic horribleness, when they’re innocently uttered by proud modern-day sports fans either to refer to their cultural roots, in the case of the Yids, or just as a straightforward team name that has been in existence since 1933, as with the Redskins.

The Yid and Redskins controversies tell us a lot about the craziness of PC. Both are underpinned by the central conceit of PC: that the “right” of certain groups or individuals not to be offended trumps the freedom of speech of other communities.