Redskins TM canceled
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- PonyBoy
http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/i…
"In what might be the most significant pressure put on Washington Redskins owner Daniel Snyder to change his team's name, the United States Patent and Trademark Office has canceled the team's trademarks on the basis that it is "disparaging to Native Americans.""
Cleveland, Atlanta, Chicago, Kansas City etc etc best get ready for this... and then there are all those college teams...
Also, their trademark is now 'toast'... that means anyone can use their logo / name as their trademark has been canceled. Of course they'll appeal... but their business is now a mess— they're a multimillion dollar company that was just told their 80 year old name / marketing materials are worthless.
- MHDC1
- ukit20
So now everyone can be racist and use their trademark?
- boobs0
So, the Trademark was cancelled. But what about copyright? Don't they still have copyright over the logos and things like that?
I mean, Trademark is only one kind of protection.
- MHDC0
Red Skin People :/ thread in 3...2...
- dorkKn1ght0
In what way is Chicago's team disparaging to native americans?
- blackhawks logojohnny_wobble
- WHITE SOXnb
- really this convo?ohhhhhsnap
- CygnusZero40
Cracker Barrel is in big fucking trouble then.
- utopian0
Racial Slurs for Native Americans
http://www.rsdb.org/race/native_…
- slinky0
- ...the fact that this might be racist is "unsupported by substantial evidence." Laugh the f*ck out loud.prophetone
- yeah, sure, sounds good. hahaprophetone
- doesnotexist0
what about the braves?
- hydro740
love how people here are all 'that's racist', but bitch because the Black People thread went missing & post and comment weird shit in random threads.. oh you..
like any of you REALLY give a shit about the Redskins name anyway.
#fact
- Speak for yourself there buddy.
I care.ohhhhhsnap - because it's now cool. Political Correctness 2.0. No one bitched when they were winning super bowls with riggins and thiesmann.hydro74
- I post stupid weird shit in everyone's thread that is not design/art/creative including my own.utopian
- Speak for yourself there buddy.
- hydro740
Now I bring this up in 2014 because, unfortunately, political correctness is making a comeback, and now with the internet, it is easier than ever. In the 90s, you had to at least get off your ass to be in a fake mood of hurt feelings. You needed signs, you needed petitions, you had to feed Al Sharpton. Back then, getting worked up over nothing was a lot of work. And now it seems like all the internet exists to do is point to the latest person who said the wrong thing so the rest of us can feel morally superior. And that's not what the internet is for; that's what college is for.
- Bill Maher
- prophetone0
it's true to an extent. people do generally care about things. wherher or not it's easier nowadays is semantics. however as far as social-media-fueled outrage is concerned look no further than kony. i feel like i was the only person on earth to not see that video when it circulated. but man was facebook afire with all sorts of jibber jabber.... then it faded. and now, who the hell is kony?
- prophetone0
my point is, tomorrow will bring something new. probably kanye-related.
- BusterBoy0
@hydro74 Mate, times change. It wasn't that long ago if you were an Aboriginal playing football here in Australia, the crowd would yell out "coon", "Abo" or "boong". The fact it used to be accepted doesn't make it OK to do now.
Of course there's some overreactions and political correctness annoys me at times, but 'Redskins'? If you can't see how that could be deeply offensive to a significant number of people, that's disturbing.