Washington Redskins trademark cancelled

[daws101]

Like this administration gives a shit about anyone's rights.

now that IS FUNNY!
YOU ASSHATS WOULD BE rioting if someone named their team the crucifiers or the Satanists because you find THAT OFFENSIVE......this place wreaks of double standards!

Actually...wouldn't give a shit.

But hey, you mean teams like the New Jersey Devils? The Arizona State Sun Devils? Dude...you are dumb as a rock.

wrong asshat ....devil in that context is a cute euphemism not at all the same....
speaking of dumb....

 

[Meister]

so the right to be underinsured is sacred?

So you want to go with that, really?

Having said that nearly all Native Americans aren't offended by the term Redskins.

false comparison...

I wasn't comparing anything, I was staying on topic.

 

[daws101]

So you want to go with that, really?

Having said that nearly all Native Americans aren't offended by the term Redskins.

false comparison...

I wasn't comparing anything, I was staying on topic.

right........(cough) bullshit!

 

[Nutz]

Like this administration gives a shit about anyone's rights.

Which of your rights have been abridged?

Probably his right to have kept his insurance that he liked.

Oh, he is unemployed, self employed or thought AFLAC was suitable insurance?

Oops...forgot the emotican...which one should I choose....so many options....hmm...

Well there isn't one for mindless idiots.

 

[Meister]

false comparison...

I wasn't comparing anything, I was staying on topic.

right........(cough) bullshit!

I think this is a forum where we need to stay on topic by board rules. I think you are the one that might be a low IQ'er.

Having said that...I stand behind my premise that Native Americans really aren't insulted by the term redskins.

 

[Meister]

now that IS FUNNY!
YOU ASSHATS WOULD BE rioting if someone named their team the crucifiers or the Satanists because you find THAT OFFENSIVE......this place wreaks of double standards!

Actually...wouldn't give a shit.

But hey, you mean teams like the New Jersey Devils? The Arizona State Sun Devils? Dude...you are dumb as a rock.

wrong asshat ....devil in that context is a cute euphemism not at all the same....
speaking of dumb....

Hmmmm, speaking of dumb
New Jersey Devil....



Yeah just a cute little thing.

The other poster nailed your ass to the wall.

 

[Zmrzlina]

Good. We don't need professional sports teams named after racial slurs.

 

[Meister]

Which of your rights have been abridged?

Probably his right to have kept his insurance that he liked.

Oh, he is unemployed, self employed or thought AFLAC was suitable insurance?

Oops...forgot the emotican...which one should I choose....so many options....hmm...

Well there isn't one for mindless idiots.

I have no idea what you're talking about.....assumptions? I don't know.

 

[Nutz]

Probably his right to have kept his insurance that he liked.

Oh, he is unemployed, self employed or thought AFLAC was suitable insurance?

Oops...forgot the emotican...which one should I choose....so many options....hmm...

Well there isn't one for mindless idiots.

I have no idea what you're talking about.....assumptions? I don't know.

You are the one that said his rights were abridged because his insurance was cancelled. I was going off of your assumption. Was your insurance cancelled...is that why you made that assumption, or is it because of the Redskins.

 

[RoadVirus]

Probably his right to have kept his insurance that he liked.

Oh, he is unemployed, self employed or thought AFLAC was suitable insurance?

Oops...forgot the emotican...which one should I choose....so many options....hmm...

Well there isn't one for mindless idiots.

I have no idea what you're talking about.....assumptions? I don't know.

Let it go. Don't feed the troll.

 

[RoadVirus]

Good. We don't need professional sports teams named after racial slurs.

It's obvious that you haven't read the entire thread.

 

[TheOldSchool]

I think we should call ourselves the Washington Dirty Filthy Savage Injuns.

We might as well have an actual racial slur for a name if everyone's going to bitch and moan about it

 

[Nutz]

Oh, he is unemployed, self employed or thought AFLAC was suitable insurance?

Oops...forgot the emotican...which one should I choose....so many options....hmm...

Well there isn't one for mindless idiots.

I have no idea what you're talking about.....assumptions? I don't know.

Let it go. Don't feed the troll.

LOL, you don't know how your rights have been abridged, so I am a troll.

PATHETIC! Just blame black people...that works on this forum!

 

[Meister]

Good. We don't need professional sports teams named after racial slurs.

The Navajos along with the vast majority of Native Americans don't think it's a slur, why should a bunch of white liberals think it is?

Red Mesa High school is located on the Navajo Indian Reservation.
Guess what the mascot and logo is? Yep, you guessed it.
REDSKINS
Nearly all the student at the school are Native American.
Has anyone told them that they're being racists using that "slur"?

Red Mesa High School (Teec Nos Pos, AZ) Basketball Home - MaxPreps.com
RMUSD #27 / Red Mesa High School


Is it really a racial slur? In my life I have never and none of my friends have referred Native Americans as redskins.....how about you?
I lived right next to the Nez Perce reservation and went to school with them....still never did.

 

[Zmrzlina]

Good. We don't need professional sports teams named after racial slurs.

The Navajos along with the vast majority of Native Americans don't think it's a slur, why should a bunch of white liberals think it is?

Source? Since when have the Navajos been the representatives of all Native Americans?

Red Mesa High school is located on the Navajo Indian Reservation.
Guess what the mascot and logo is? Yep, you guessed it.
REDSKINS
Nearly all the student at the school are Native American.
Has anyone told them that they're being racists using that "slur"?
Red Mesa High School (Teec Nos Pos, AZ) Basketball Home - MaxPreps.com
RMUSD #27 / Red Mesa High School

Ever heard of re-appropriation?

Is it really a racial slur? In my life I have never and none of my friends have referred Native Americans as redskins.....how about you?
I lived right next to the Nez Perce reservation and went to school with them....still never did.

Native American's make up less than 1% of the US demographics, it should be obvious of why you do not hear the slur used in common place. Fact is, it was used historically as a slur and referring to someone based solely on their complexion is dehumanizing.

 

[Zmrzlina]

Good. We don't need professional sports teams named after racial slurs.

It's obvious that you haven't read the entire thread.

I don't need to read the thread to realize that historically the term red skin is a dehumanizing slur used against Native Americans.

 

[Papageorgio]

However, the government has no fucking business interfering in property rights in such a manner.

Like this administration gives a shit about anyone's rights.

now that IS FUNNY!
YOU ASSHATS WOULD BE rioting if someone named their team the crucifiers or the Satanists because you find THAT OFFENSIVE......this place wreaks of double standards!

I wouldn't care, just as most Indians don't care.


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[Meister]

Good. We don't need professional sports teams named after racial slurs.

The Navajos along with the vast majority of Native Americans don't think it's a slur, why should a bunch of white liberals think it is?

Source? Since when have the Navajos been the representatives of all Native Americans?

Red Mesa High school is located on the Navajo Indian Reservation.
Guess what the mascot and logo is? Yep, you guessed it.
REDSKINS
Nearly all the student at the school are Native American.
Has anyone told them that they're being racists using that "slur"?
Red Mesa High School (Teec Nos Pos, AZ) Basketball Home - MaxPreps.com
RMUSD #27 / Red Mesa High School

Ever heard of re-appropriation?

Is it really a racial slur? In my life I have never and none of my friends have referred Native Americans as redskins.....how about you?
I lived right next to the Nez Perce reservation and went to school with them....still never did.

Native American's make up less than 1% of the US demographics, it should be obvious of why you do not hear the slur used in common place. Fact is, it was used historically as a slur and referring to someone based solely on their complexion is dehumanizing.

Re-appropriation? Are you assuming that is what it is, or do you have actual facts that, that is the reason????


Yet left completely out of consideration is that many Native Americans themselves have no problems with sports teams nicknaming themselves the Redskins.

In 2004 the Annenberg Public Policy Center found that 90 percent of American Indians are not offended by the Washington Redskins retaining their nickname. What's more, and this is key (emphasis mine):
Claiming “scalps” automatically means “red skins” is revisionist history, to be blunt. It was the Native Americans who first used the term “red” in order to differentiate between indigenous, white, and black people. When not referring to their individual and other tribes collectively, why would they use Indian, Native, or other adjectives to describe their obvious skin differences back then? Ives Goddard is a senior linguist at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of History. Goddard wrote the book, I am a Redskin: The Adoption of a Native American Expression (1769-1826) and notes the earliest uses of “red skin” were in recorded statements from Natives by the French who generally traded amicably with them. The French were careful to denote the “red” distinction was made by Natives themselves. By the time of the Phips Proclamation, according to Goddard, “red” to describe Natives was used “by both French and English…. Although Europeans sometimes used such expressions among themselves, however, they remained aware of the fact that this was originally and particularly a Native American usage.” Also citing Goddard in the recent article, “Before The Redskins Were The Redskins: The Use Of Native American Team Names In The Formative Era of American Sports, 1857-1944,” Professor of Law and historian J. Gordon Hylton writes about the term, “…throughout the nineteenth century, the term was essentially neutral when used by whites, reflecting neither a particularly positive or particularly negative connotation.” Even Sitting Bull once remarked, “I am a red man. If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man he would have made me so in the first place.”
Despite Liberal Media Push, Poll Shows Vast Majority of Americans Aren't Offended by 'Redskins' | NewsBusters

 

[Papageorgio]

Good. We don't need professional sports teams named after racial slurs.

It's obvious that you haven't read the entire thread.

I don't need to read the thread to realize that historically the term red skin is a dehumanizing slur used against Native Americans.

It's obvious you have no clue what the Native Americans about.


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[JimBowie1958]

So does this mean that another NFL team can now call themselves Redskins?

Right now it's awaiting Appeals so they have not lost the Trademark...

But Arguably yes, if it holds.

I am Saddened by what a bunch of Whiney ***** this Country is allowing itself to become.



peace...

Who the hell else would want to call themselves Redskins anyway?

People who take pride in our nations heritage from Amerindian warriors, dumbass.

The same reason people use other ethnicities and groups as their teams mascots like 'the fighting Irish', or Texans, or Vikings, or Braves, or Cowboys, or Yankees, etc.

At the time the Redskins had several players and their coach who had Amerindian heritage and so they took the name after having been known as the braves for a time.

The word redskin was not a pejorative and was used by Amerindians for years before whites started using it. But then again, to idiots like you calling someone a 'black' is probably racist and insulting too.