kimilseung

Redskins team trademarks cancelled by US Patent and Trademark Office.

BBC News - 'Disparaging' Redskins team trademarks cancelled

Well, this is a step in the right direction.

Sally Redux

Is it because I is red?

hungryhorace

It's just ridiculous. So what if a few native's are offended? There's far worse things in the world for them to concern themselves about. If anything, they should be taking a potshot at the Cleveland Indians!

Sally Redux

How about sneering Arabs?

hungryhorace

lol, that mascot is brilliant. I also think it's brilliant that a country allows such mascot's to be used without criminal prosecution. You can bet the police would be straight round were a similar image to be used in England!

Steve_

The Washington Presidents (can't be Senators, Ottawa has that one).

The Washington Gridlock

The Washington Paralysis

The Washington Foreskins

The Washington Debt Mountaineers

The Washington Crack Dealers

The Washington Potomacs

The Washington Georges

Scouse Express

It's only going to lead to more tacky shit, with the Redskins name on it, appearing all over the place. Thus, causing even more "offense" to the "offended" individuals.

sir_eccles

The interesting thing is that they managed to make a similar complaint in 1999 and got the TM suspended then only to be overturned in court for lack of standing. Public opinion has shifted somewhat since then but lack of standing may be hard to overcome.

paddingtongreen

I still don't understand the resistance to change.

They would make a bundle selling the old gear to people who wanted to collect it, followed by another selling the new rig to the fans.

Sally Redux

This sort of thing belongs in the history books.

g1ant

Keep the name. Change the logo to a potato.

Lion in Winter

Hungry Horace.

So what?

How would you feel about The Washington Niggers? Or maybe the Cleveland Chinks? The New York Kykes? Yes, it is the same thing.

That people don't recognize that is precisely the problem. The native American cultures are treated as a stereotypical joke. The "natives". They are alive among us you know.

hungryhorace

The word 'redskin' simply cannot be compared to the word 'nigger' IMO. The word 'nigger' has such negative, and violent, connotations that it's use is rightfully socially unacceptable. The word 'redskin' though? No way. I asked a native only recently in Utah if he was a redskin, he didn't seem to mind me asking.

I wouldn't be offended by Kykes (never even heard it before) nor Chinks (which was used all the time when I was growing up to refer to Chinese people. It's a term of endearment as far as i'm concerned).

Sally Redux

What did he actually say?

Lion in Winter

Well "the natives" apparently are offended by being called redskin since such large numbers of them have mobilized for its use to be stopped for so long. It came to be used in utterly unflattering ways and if you are not aware of that, it's easy enough to read up. It doesn't carry such import to you because you don't know - we are all used to the cultures of the indigenous peoples here being trivialized - but that doesn't make it right.

If you don't know the term Kyke, ask a Jewish person in this country, and if you would truly address any Chinese friends you may have as Chinks I would be surprised.