U.S. Patent And Trademark Office Cancels Redskins Trademark

[Vlad the Impaler]

This whole thing is so silly. This is nearly as stupid as Congress having their worthless hearings on who is taking steroids in baseball. I hope Snyder changes it to a more "offensive" name.

Anyone that is offended by a sports franchise name should be sterilized.

 

[Betallsports]

This whole thing is so silly. This is nearly as stupid as Congress having their worthless hearings on who is taking steroids in baseball. I hope Snyder changes it to a more "offensive" name.

Anyone that is offended by a sports franchise name should be sterilized.

Please do not use that word again, I dislike it and think it's too Nazi like.

 

[LoCalDallasGuy]

Guys who go around saying.. _________ is offensive to me - need to chill...

It isn't just about you, it is about a group of people and the effect it has on that group of people.

Think about the younger native american kids... they are the one's that are more vulnerable to this kind of bullying. People call "redskins" , fans in face paint...etc..

I get it, alot of us don't care but apparently there is a group that does and they went to great lengths to get this publicized.

If you guys are offended by Cleveland Indians then go get a group together protest and go to court for years and I'm sure they will change that name too.

 

[MikeB]

Of course it is offensive. But we all face offensive things every single day in our life and don't make a federal case about it. Get over it.

"Of course it is offensive."



Nope, I didn't misread your post

 

[RenoChazz]

It doesn't bother me that people are offended, or not offended, and wont lose any sleep if they end up changing their name. It does bother me though that the FED is using the patent office to troll the team. Let the NFL handle it's business.

 

[Vlad the Impaler]

Dude white people aren't cool. Change the name to white skins, honkies, or dego's and no one would care, but it certainly wouldn't sell.

White people aren't cool because.......? They value education, hard work, don't kill their friends over weed?

 

[goin4broke]

wasn't there an article a few years back when this first offensive redskins name thing came about that showed that 90% of actual Native Americans were NOT offended by the name or logo? ill try to find it i could be wrong but i swear i read something like that years ago.

 

[goin4broke]

http://washington.cbslocal.com/2013/10/08/how-many-native-americans-think-redskins-is-a-slur/


http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2013...nd-redskins-chargers-calkins/2/?#article-copy

 

[goin4broke]

so if 90% of American Indians aren't offended why should anyone else be??????

 

[RenoChazz]

so if 90% of American Indians aren't offended why should anyone else be??????

I agree, if it was as offensive to people as all talking heads say it is, it would have been gone, just ask Donald Sterling.

 

[Mr_Mark]

This is completely outrageous. Who game the USPTO the authority to determine what is "offensive" anyway?

So does that mean the United Negro College Fund and National Association for the Advancement of Colored People should have their trademarks revoked?

Anyway:

Not all Native Americans oppose the term Redskins. Capital News Service identified three majority Native American high schools that use it proudly, including Red Mesa High School in Arizona.

“Being from Native American culture, [the term] is not derogatory,” said Tommie Yazzie, superintendent of the school district that oversees Red Mesa High School. He identified himself as a “full-blooded Navajo.”

Red Mesa High School is located on a Navajo reservation, and 99.3 percent of its students are Native American, according to the National Center for Education Statistics.

Here is a map of the 62 high schools that currently use the nickname "Redskins" As has already been pointed out, the name is in use on Indian Reservations.

The fact of the matter is that this decision has nothing to do with what is "offensive" and everything to do with useless government bureaucrats getting their rocks off in telling other people what they can do.

Great post! :aktion033

 

[packer2012]

Let's make a law that every organization can be known only by a NUMBER. (The Washington #11s)

See how long it takes some piss-ant cry-baby to find fault with that?

 

[slapshot]

They should go after ESPN next for using the term Nation the Red Sox are not a Nation

 

[Acebb]

Wellpinit (Wash.) High School -- where the student body is 91.2 percent Native American -- that the "Redskins" name they wear proudly across their chests is insulting them. Because they have no idea.
"I've talked to our students, our parents and our community about this and nobody finds any offense at all in it," says Tim Ames, the superintendent of Wellpinit schools. "'Redskins' is not an insult to our kids. 'Wagon burners' is an insult. 'Prairie n-----s' is an insult. Those are very upsetting to our kids. But 'Redskins' is an honorable name we wear with pride. … In fact, I'd like to see somebody come up here and try to change it."

http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/9689220/redskins-name-change-not-easy-sounds

 

[Acebb]

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[/FONT][FONT=Conv_Mark Simonson - Proxima Nova Regular]It took him a while to weigh in on the whole Redskins name dispute, but now that he has, NFL Hall of Famer Mike Ditka didn’t disappoint.

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