Threading the Needle at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

[Amazing Larry]

They aren't so private when they are asking for billions in taxpayer subsidies since sports teams are in the public interest...

Any city/district dumb enough to subsidize a sports franchise with public money should be represented with a mascot far worse than a "Redskin."

[Thomas]

Any city/district dumb enough to subsidize a sports franchise with public money should be represented with a mascot far worse than a "Redskin."

 

[Inside Pitch]

Looking forward to the day when all the PC libs win and all human group names are banished. Chiefs, Braves, Padres, Pirates, Yankees, 49ers, Canadiens, or anything that can take you to court....although, then the Shawn Bradley types will create a union and say names like the Giants are derogatory.

 

You know, ever since that whole beanstalk incident people have been very negative towards Giants.

Edited June 21, 2014 by Inside Pitch

[Amazing Larry]

Thanks for proving my point.

[Chuck]

LOL at Dave stirring the pot.

Nice done!

[Brian Ilten]

We live in a hyper sensitive uber politically correct world. You all are what's wrong with society and the downfall of the western world.

Get over your sensitivity issues and worry about more pressing things like the lies your government is telling you daily or Scioscia's insistence on using Frieri as closer.

[Erstad Grit]

This is so stupid

The team name is been the same for what 50 years?

All of a sudden people are offended

 

We as a people can evolve for the better. When the redskins were named there was segregation too. 

[ELEVEN]

Aren't they a sovereign people? Don't they want to be recognized as independent and not interefered with by our government? Don't they want their own laws so that they can take certain advantages

Like religious organizations?

[HaloMagic]

I have never used the term Redskin to mean anything other than the football team. If I heard someone being called a Redskin it would take me a moment before I realized what was happening. I don't know of anyone who uses the term and unfortunately I know too many racist people. It's just not popular slur. The word has clearly evolved from a derogatory term to simply a brand name. I really don't care about this. It not my team so I have no preference on their name but if it was my team I would think that it was stupid and a waste of time to change the name.

So I guess I'm a racist. Meh. I'll let someone else get outraged over my racism. I don't care about that, either.

Edited June 21, 2014 by HaloMagic

[Jay]

90% of Native Americans are not offended by "Redskins" so this is all about political correctness and a coercive government taking away private property rights from individuals. This is the Executive branch, not the Judicial Branch, that made this decision. Department of Commerce.

[Ohtaniland]

 

[ABC]

90% of Native Americans are not offended by "Redskins" so this is all about political correctness and a coercive government taking away private property rights from individuals. This is the Executive branch, not the Judicial Branch, that made this decision. Department of Commerce.

 

link?

[Blarg]

 

http://www.militarytimes.com/article/20131127/OFFDUTY04/311270018/Code-Talker-says-Redskins-name-not-derogatory

Edited June 21, 2014 by Eric Notti

[Ohtaniland]

They seem to welcome all of us Whities to their Indian Casinos.

[laagamer]

The name "Redskins" is disgusting and of course it should be changed, by whatever means someone is capable of changing it. You guys can throw around whatever half-assed logical fallacies and red herrings you like in order to dodge that moral clarity, but you only look foolish. 

 

It's disgusting not only because it derogates millions of Americans, it's disgusting because it suggests that the rest of the country continues to enjoy a racist indifference to its own history. Of course reconciling oneself with that history and its legacies is not easy because the nation's founding act was genocide (and its founding institution slavery). But it's still gross to watch people choose racist imagery over moral consciousness. It's embarrassing to live in such a country. (The appropriate analogue, but the way, is not "Yankess" or "Fighing Irish"; the appropriate analogue would be a German soccer team named the "Leipzig Yid-Lids.")

 

And its embarrassing to realize one reads a board full of smug white dudes who think the the fact that "Redskins" has been around for decades means it's benign -- or that the government should let well enough alone because the regulation of its commodities is more sacred than the dignity of its citizens.

 

The only thing about all this more disgusting than "Redskins,"  in other words, is having read and hear all the racist babbling of the venal "majority" of sports fans still attempting to veil their own view of reality. 

 

U mad bro? 

[ABC]

 

http://www.militarytimes.com/article/20131127/OFFDUTY04/311270018/Code-Talker-says-Redskins-name-not-derogatory

 

90%

[Blarg]

100% of those guys.

[ten ocho recon scout]

You guys need a logic class. And a history class.

If it happened to be the case on that a society of atheists had conducted a couple hundred years of genocidal ethnic cleansing in order to remove a society of religious people while using the term "Angels" to degrade them....then, yes, of course our team's name would also be a disgusting offense to the basic ideas about dignity on which secular society depends.

because no one has been killed for not recognizing religious beliefs.

Get rid of the padres while we're at it. Those spanish priests who brought christianity to those godless heathen indians in the first place by way of the musket and starvation....

We could play this game all day, dear champion of tolerance.

[Dave Saltzer]

Lol. The pop up ad at the top of the screen is for a patent and Trademark legal group.

[Spirit]

Mmmmmmm!  Racist potatoes!!!

 

 

[Adam]

If people believe the name is offensive they should stop supporting the NFL. Why does the government have to "solve" all the problems?

[Spirit]

Would all of the offended white people be ok with them keeping the name, but changing the logo?

[Jay]

Or keep the logo and change the name to Potatoes

[ABC]

Would all of the offended white people be ok with them keeping the name, but changing the logo?

 

That is funny. I wish Snyder would propose something this and see heads explode.

[ABC]

100% of those guys.