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In today's episode of "a perpetually offended person finds something not racist, racist"...

To answer your question, it's not racist in the majority of times, but I'd say how it is said or the context of a conversation can make it racist, the same way many terms said with disdain can be pejorative instead of being positive. And in the aforementioned majority of times, I'd say it's simply laziness since saying "Indian" is just faster than saying "native American". The same way friends use shortened nicknames instead of their friends real names: just faster.