I say replace it with a hammer and sickle: U.S. Patent Office Cancels Washington Redskins Trademarks
In that vein…
Update: “I want you to imagine the federal government eliminating your private property rights due to the interpretation of political correctness by five people, or a very tiny minority of people,”
By what authority?
As in overstepping!
Apparently the original 1933 Redskins team had 4 redskins on it. Redskins is certainly an archaic term. I am not sure why people would consider it racist as I don’t remember the term ever used to belittle or put down anyone. Simply put, some of the first Indians met by the English dyed their skin red. My preferred term as a youth was always wagon-burners. Hell, some Indians get ticked off at being called Indians while others freely call themselves such.
The Redskins are offended that some government nobodies got their knickers in a knot and deemed them ‘not worthy of being a jersey emblem’!
Who the hell are these freaks, that they are afraid of their own shadows?
Fire the Patents Office of Rainbows and Unicorns!
Cheers
Hans Rupprecht Commander in Chief
1st Saint Nicolaas Army
Army Group “True North”
And the beat goes on, as the song says.
They pick on things that can possibly be spun into popular opposition and with always helpful propaganda branch, the mass media, they win.
The name really is unimportant as the actual casualty is freedom.
Too bad.
There will be another and many more unimportant causes the propagandists will come up with. They will meld the population into a putty to be molded into nice, polite, conforming, don’t need to think, idiots.
It is becoming more difficult to discuss this with people in a bar, at a dinner, at a hike.
See, once this becomes a norm, no one will know the difference.
Their lives will become happy. They will wallow in their ignorance. They will be supplied with reality by the politbureau and the mass media. They will go to work singing happy workers songs. If they have no money, they will get free stuff and everybody will be happy.
Until they hit the brick wall. Then it will be fault of the other guy. After all they were told all this time that they are the victims.
Little bit by little bit, they will get you, painlessly, won’t even notice…….
I always get a kick out of the loons who say that a name like “Redskins” is an insult and is derogatory. Teams typically don’t name themselves with names such as “Washington Losers”….or “Washington Slackers”….or “Washington No Stars”….or “Washington Drunkards”. But rather they use names that they feel raise the team up. But then we are dealing with left wingers who are so removed from reality, they just have no clue.
So the Americans aren’t planning on getting over their national psychosis about skin color any time soon then.
As long as they don’t infect us or expect us to go along with it they can stew in it.
There was a time in my life when I MIGHT have cared about this. But the heros of yesteryear are gone and those days are long behind me. However, in the interests of being constructive, I suggest this name: the Washington Bureacrats. It’s catchy and the possibilities for logos are rich and varied.
“groupthink”
From article “The decision by the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board is similar to one it issued in 1999. That ruling was overturned in 2003 in large part on a technicality because the courts decided that the plaintiffs were too old.”
WTF – does this make absolutely no sense whatsoever?
When the team was named in 1933 because it apparently had 4 Indians, was this done for respect or hate? Amazing how many idiots there are in positions of authority.
This is a back door attempt to change the name. This is not the first Washington team to want a name change.The basketball team used to be called the Bullets. If this change happens- Whats Next? The list is long: The Atlanta Braves, The Cleveland Indians, The Chicago Blackhawks, The Portland Winterhawks, The Florida State Seminoles. The list goes on.
Notre Dame…. call your office!
If I was the owner of the chinese factory that makes their jerseys, logo beer mugs, coffee cups etc I’d put on an extra shift for a while. Publicity = sales, and you don’t have to give Snyder or the NFL their cut. Heck, if they do change the name stuf with the Redskins logo will be more popular than ever for years. You can still get OJ Buffalo Bills Jerseys outside the Ralph.
This is so retarded. I grew up next to Hobbema and I believe the natives made a point of only wearing jersey’s of teams who had a native-centered tone. Heck, if there was some sports team that used a Fighting Mennonite or some sort, I would proudly support their merchandise.
The appeals case will be called the Washington Red Skins v. the Washington Thin Skins.
Further to Jungle’s comments, those iconic team names were given respectfully with pride and the expectation of superior performance. The names were meant, and are still meant, to be a compliment. To abolish the use of ostensibly offending team names is therefore taking something positive away from aboriginals or first nations or the whatever politically correct nomenclature de jour is today. The real irony is that instead of getting on a full head of steam (not meaning to offending any railrodders out there)to solve real problems such as poverty, unemployment, alcoholism, child abuse, and illiteracy in their ranks, the leaders focus their attention on non-battles they can win in the press that do not make life better by one iota for any of their people.
How can they take it away now?
Indian Giver.
What a cesspit of insane liberalism and socialism Yankeeland is. If they want to change the name, how about the “Washington Gas Huffers”?
“So the Americans aren’t planning on getting over their national psychosis about skin color any time soon then.
As long as they don’t infect us or expect us to go along with it they can stew in it.”
Too late. Ask the students at Bedford Road Collegiate in Saskatoon.
Personally If it was my baby and I couldn’t win in the court of media opinion I’d keep the artwork and change the name to the Washington Foreskins.
It seems to better represent the PC policymakers in name as the dickheads they are.
You are right ON, Lev. This morning’s news told us that terrorists had ‘taken’ an Iraq oil refinery and also that the Redskins name had to be changed to placate the tender sensibilities of the Word Police. One HUGE event and another event from a manufactured ‘issue.’ The surreal thing is that the Redskins name change will likely get more press.
We need a grassroots revolution, Dave Brat style. Challenge the people who want to control our lives with blowback, as Kate said.
Washington Putins
Other options for new name:
Beleganas
Blackrobes
Crackers
Gallettas
Gavachos
Honkies
Moon Crickets (I particularly like this one)
Rednecks
Whitetrash
Just think of the merchandising possibilities.
(And by the way, do the Captchas repeat themselves? I think I’ve typed this one in before…)
The USPTO reports into the Executive branch as part of the Department of Commerce. I don’t put it past this Administration to once again use bureaucratic measures to enforce its agenda. Like it does with the IRS.
I had no idea that the word ‘rednecks’ was referring to our First Nations neighbours. I’m going to complain to the Word Police that this term must be banned henceforth, because I could pass for a native and I don’t like the tone in which this is often used.
Re. Captcha: I’m most successful when I use the ‘Blink’ method. (Thank you, Malcolm Gladwell.) Take a cursory look, type it in, and don’t overthink it. Your brain sees behind all the dots and lines.
“Washington Jackboots”. Kate, you are a treasure. In the same vein, might I add “Washington Parasites” and “Washington Gangsters”?
People never named sports teams after entities that they didn’t admire for ferocity. Try as you might, you won’t find a team named “Fuzzy Lambs”.
I like Kate’s proposed logo. One sports team that needs a new logo is the Ottawa Senators. A centurion in a Roman helmet with the broom on top? Come on. What it desperately needs to be is a big old hog, head down, ass up, with its nose in the trough.
No, “Washington Jackboots” is perfect. I am currently in State College, PA, and last Thursday about 15 federal police
were congregated in the lobby of the hotel where I am staying. Probably they stayed there too. They were clad in black
or dark blue, and all with the latest sidearms. Later that morning they went off and closed several Asian restaurants
around town, arresting several of the employees. There was no word whatsoever until a brief press release; the whereabouts
of the captured are unknown, and there is no indication as to whether charges have been laid. It is believed that
the roundup was immigration-related.
It was a perfect example of Gestapo tactics, and the resemblance of the “police” to the SS was notable.
This morning on CNN, Anderson Cooper was doing his best “Baghdad Bob” impersonation.
It wasn’t very funny.
Washington ‘Tapers.
Logo to be a football player crashing face-first into the turf with his feet obviously tangled in tape ( – you don’t need to be told what colour tape.)
Joey and so many others are so right. Sports teams names are supposed to instill pride, ferocity, stamina and a winning attitude along with fear in the oppositions. I don’t recall any teams named Pansies, Wusses, Conscientious Objectors, Rose Buds, Draft Dodges, Sloths, Pussy Willows or such. With the exception of Anaheim Ducks (and Donald can be a mean SOB) there aren’t too many teams out there that prescribe to the PC police philosophy.
How soon before the Ottawa CFL team comes under fire for disparaging not one but two visible minorities?
The Washington Bedwetters. Not too sure about the logo.
The chief ticket scalper was brave enough to say he had no reservations about the old name. A feather in his cap, for sure.
I intend to file an HRC complaint against the Saskatchewan Roughriders, on behalf of the gay community.
And I absolutely love that logo of Kate’s,”Washington Jackboots”. The Communists might sue over use of their logo,though.
Oh,yeah,the new CFL team in Ottawa,the “Redblacks”,offends, Indians, communists,and Negroes!
And what about the Edmonton Eskimos!!
I am fairly frothing with outrage!
Sigh.
Wouldn’t it be ironic to see the communists…er…Democrats sue for stealing their property interest in the hammer and sickle.
Why, because the hunchbacks are offended? 🙂
Green Bay Packers.
Better change that, don’t want to offend the gay community either.
No, because I neither fight nor am I an angry Leprechaun. Raaaaaacist!
Minnesota Vikings are next.
LOL. You’re gooooood. 🙂
You aren’t going to go shooting up a Walmart now, are you? Or shooting RCMP officers?
What about a boot stomping on a human face forever?
Is that a good logo?
Kate, I pray to God that Jackboots logo goes viral.
I’ll do what I can to help it along.
I like jack boots as well, but for reality sake Washington Mostly Blacks.
Oh sh!t
What about my motorcycle ?
Sounds like a shakedown. Wonder how much the plaintiffs will sell the right to use the name Redskins for?
I’d propose Washington Wasps – Wasps are formidable colony builders, aggressive, unpredictable, irritatingly persistent and sting with little or no provocation.
This all part of the leftist fascists. “Inclusiveness”, “Diversity” with the “Tolerance” 3 card Monty game. Infiltrate every organization they can, than flip the usage of words to censor any other opinions. The Obama crew corrupts all they touch.
Is there not one organ of the Federal Government in Washington not communist now, run by the fascist left?
Call the team by its real Name now. The Washington Alinsky’s.
AHH!! – never seen you post here, before. Your post is completely inconsistent with the topic of the thread, and its overtly racial tone is completely inconsistent with the tone of regular SDA posters. Where do you normally troll?
I propose “Washington Palefaces” then the indians (or whatever they are calling themselves this week) can be sued for inventing a derogatory term.