U.S. Patent Office Cancels Redskins Trademark Registration

[ImFeklhr]

http://www.examiner.com/article/every-single-nfl-team-name-is-offensive-ban-the-entire-league

A couple tee hees, but mostly full of ridiculous false equivalencies usually relegated to corny phrases like "what's next, people marrying their dogs?!?!" :facepalm:

Only thing worse than unnecessary political correctness are clumsy attempts at mocking said correctness.

 

[REFLOG]

http://www.wtam.com/onair/mike-trivisonno-2339/the-redskins-arent-backing-down-and-12502370/

 

[Terryray]

A Brave is a Native American warrior.

Black Hawk was a War Leader of the Sauk tribe.

A Redskin is a slur used to describe a person of Native American descent.


An example with the Japanese culture would be


A team named the Samurais (famous warriors)

A team named the Nobunagas (famous leader)

And a team named the yellow skins (slur)

no team at a predominantly asian school would ever call themselves yellow skins.
just as no team at a predominantly black school would ever use the "n" word in their name.

those are slurs, offensive, recognized as such by most, avoided except in very certain contexts.

some teams at Indian schools have, and are using, Redskins in their name.

your analogy is therefore illegitimate.

 

[smurphy]

no team at a predominantly asian school would ever call themselves yellow skins.
just as no team at a predominantly black school would ever use the "n" word in their name.

those are slurs, offensive, recognized as such by most, avoided except in very certain contexts.

some teams at Indian schools have, and are using, Redskins in their name.

your analogy is therefore illegitimate.

This is a great point.

 

[JOSHNAUDI]

I'm not familiar with any "Indian Schools" using Redskin

Could you provide the school names and locations?

 

[Mr. Poon]

I'm not familiar with any "Indian Schools" using Redskin

Could you provide the school names and locations?

I believe he is referring to schools with a predominantly Native American population. This study from last fall says there are three.


http://cnsmaryland.org/interactives/other-redskins/#aboutproject

 

[smurphy]

I believe he is referring to schools with a predominantly Native American population. This study from last fall says there are three.


http://cnsmaryland.org/interactives/other-redskins/#aboutproject

And that's just Redskins. Many more named Braves. And they continue to vote to keep those names.

Let the Natives vote the Washington Redskins name. Only reasonable solution if this is going to be such a controversy.

 

[Mr. Poon]

And that's just Redskins. Many more named Braves. And they continue to vote to keep those names.

Let the Natives vote the Washington Redskins name. Only reasonable solution if this is going to be such a controversy.

Good idea about letting them vote and have it determined. If you were helping with the poll, would you walk up to a Native American and state "Hey Redskin, we need your help, do you mind answering a few questions?"?

 

[smurphy]

Good idea about letting them vote and have it determined. If you were helping with the poll, would you walk up to a Native American and state "Hey Redskin, we need your help, do you mind answering a few questions?"?

:facepalm: I'd probably say "hey kemosabe".