And by the time colonists arrived in Utah, the word was being used in a derogatory manner. But what does it matter when it became considered racist, anyway? If the people whose ancestors we dispossessed and to whom we can never make amends find it a painful reminder of how they were belittled and denied their rights through one atrocity and broken treaty after another find it offensive, is it really that much of a hardship for Utahns to start using a different word?

Who is the fragile one here, the activists, or the people clinging to a term that others find offensive?