BREAKING: US Patent Office cancels "Redskins" trademark

[Lex Concord]

I am SOOOOOOOOOO tired of people getting offended by anything and everything.

How dare you get tired of people being offended!!!! What are you, some kind of zealot?

 

[Lex Concord]

Isn't this a repeat of 1999? I doubt it stands on appeal.

However, I keep hearing the reason "Redskins" is offensive, instead of Blackhawks or Braves, is because it hearkens to a genocide against Indians when Indians were skinned and the skins were turned in for bounties. I have a real tough time believing this is a true history. Skinning people seems like the least efficient way to prove a death and collect a bounty, even if such a bounty system were to be in place.

So, I ask, does anyone have a reliable source that this supposed source or the offensiveness is historical fact and not just some made up BS?

It's not explicit about the skinning, but the genocidal aspect is there. No, I haven't yet found an alleged source.

 

[Hawkeye]

You're a leprechaun?

Not that there's anything wrong with that....

Leprechaun's are a much maligned race. They've been chased and sometimes captured for their gold.

 

[Hkindiana]

I'm a teacher, and I was reprimanded for referring to a student as an "Oriental student". I was informed that "Oriental" s a RUG, and I should use the politically correct term of "Asian". A week later I heard a radio commercial advertising a new batch of "Asian Rugs" that had just become available. Now, what do I do? We are also not supposed to say; "sit Indian style" to the students, but instead we have been instructed to say "criss crossed applesauce".

 

[miguel]

"HOW?" did it ever come to this...

 

[joslar15]

"HOW?" did it ever come to this...

Just wait, I'm sure it will get worse.

 

[Tsigos]

Report: Redskins? Name Only Offensive If You Think About What It Means | The Onion - America's Finest News Source

Outside of football, would anyone ever address or publicly refer to a Native-American as a "redskin" today? If not, why not?

 

[pudly]

Would anyone call a happy person "gay" anymore. If not, why not?

 

[GodFearinGunTotin]

 

[You'll shoot your eye out]

Would anyone call a happy person "gay" anymore. If not, why not?

I know that I am as old as dirt, but way back in the day there was a burger stand named "Gay Dan's". They sure changed their name after it started to mean something else!

 

[You'll shoot your eye out]

Isn't this a repeat of 1999? I doubt it stands on appeal.

However, I keep hearing the reason "Redskins" is offensive, instead of Blackhawks or Braves, is because it hearkens to a genocide against Indians when Indians were skinned and the skins were turned in for bounties. I have a real tough time believing this is a true history. Skinning people seems like the least efficient way to prove a death and collect a bounty, even if such a bounty system were to be in place.

So, I ask, does anyone have a reliable source that this supposed source or the offensiveness is historical fact and not just some made up BS?

It is my understanding that it was scalps, not whole skins. Hauling around whole skins doesn't even make any sense, just like BehindBlueI's said. Too inefficient to be practicable.

 

[billt]

The economy is in shambles, we're $17 TRILLION in debt, the Middle East is on fire, the IRS is mired in scandal, the Benghazi cover up, our southern border is a sieve, and as the deaths continue to mount from Fast & Furious, this is all the Democrats can find to waste time with?

 

[DoggyDaddy]

"I believe that we need a more thoughtful conversation, we cannot let a minority of people -- and that's what it is, it is a minority of people -- hold a viewpoint that terrorizes the majority of people," -- Hillary Clinton

I guess that only applies to "some" minorities.

 

[ljk]

I didn't read through all the pages, please help me understand this patent thing.

so "Redskinds" is offensive, but there was only 1 organization could use it.

now, it is so offensive, millions of organizations/persons can use it.

 

[richardraw316]

Let's be honest. It s a crappy name. Which is fitting for a crappy city. How about if the name offends you, you don't buy their stuff, or watch their games. One man owns the team. It is his freedom to call it whatever he wants.
FREEDOM! What a concept.

 

[ZombieApocolypse]

I've read the original coach for the Redskins was a "Native American" and so were a few players. They didnt seem to have a problem with the name

 

[JeremiahJohnson]

I've read the original coach for the Redskins was a "Native American" and so were a few players. They didnt seem to have a problem with the name

No they didn't. Neither did Jim Thorpe. It was an alignment to the then Boston Braves (i.e. Chicago Cubs/Chicago Bears; Detroit Tigers/Detroit Lions; etc.). Only in the last couple decades does this boil to the surface. Don't think Jim Thorpe was suppressed in any way. If he'd had a problem with it, he'd said so.

 

[WWalker]

Army vets blast PC police for attacking Apache, Chinook helicopters as racist - Washington Times

 

[BogWalker]

So how long before saying something "offensive" is just made outright illegal?

 

[richardraw316]

Army vets blast PC police for attacking Apache, Chinook helicopters as racist - Washington Times

That was officially the dumbest article I have ever read. I think it gave me cancer.