Redskins Stripped of Trademarks

[I_royalty_I]

"In a major blow to the Washington Redskins, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on Wednesday canceled six federal trademarks of the Washington Redskins team name because it was found to be �disparaging� to Native Americans."

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Are you kidding me...?
They turned the name of a football team into a political matter.

Thoughts?

[k80]

This was an issue with my mom's high school - they were the Indians but were later renamed something like Warriors. It got the point of the mascot across without offending any races by singling them out as a novelty stereotype. While "redskin" isn't the most offensive ethnic slur out there, it is a bit of an odd choice when you really think about it. i.e:

"What's your team mascot?"
"The Boston Black People"
"o_O"

[Skarl]

This is silly. The team has been in existence for a long, long time and - as far as I'm aware - doesn't parade about yelling racial slurs at folks.

[Tablo]

Social justice warriors fix another problem nobody actually cared about, amazing!!

[I_royalty_I]

I read an interesting comment somewhere after the article saying something along the lines of... We don't name teams after something that we despise, it's a name we rally behind.

It's not meant to be a slur or interpreted in a negative light. I knew something was going to happen as soon as obama opened his big mouth about something that he didn't need to get involved in -_-


It doesn't MAKE them change their name, but it takes away all their trademarks. So now anybody can sell and use the name without the Redskins making any money off anything. So they will lose a TON of money and will probably eventually be forced to change it. It's really ridiculous.

[Vindictive]

Obama is a idiot but im not going to elaborate on the topic, hes not even American and hes interfering with our American team which in reality isnt even that offensive.

[I_royalty_I]

Obama is a idiot but im not going to elaborate on the topic, hes not even American and hes interfering with our American team which in reality isnt even that offensive.

Probably easier not to elaborate further on that first point! I could go on and on with how I probably agree with you

He started it, then more and more "legislatures" followed and pressured the Patent people to strip the trademark. It's all a bunch of political bullshit really.

[Young]

TOO complex for a foreigner to understand what's happening

[Zhukov]

Obama is a idiot but im not going to elaborate on the topic, hes not even American and hes interfering with our American team which in reality isnt even that offensive.

What do you mean by he's not American? He was born in the States, that's sort of what makes a person American

[I_royalty_I]

What do you mean by he's not American? He was born in the States, that's sort of what makes a person American

That's a pretty debatable point seeing as we have not been able to see his actual birth certificate. Not really a surprise though, we are talking about one of the least transparent presidents here.