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U.S. Patent Office Cancels Redskins Trademark Registration, Says Name is Disparaging
The Washington Post ^ | Wednesday, June 18, 2014 | Theresa Vargas

Posted on 06/18/2014 7:07:10 AM PDT by kristinn

The United States Patent and Trademark Office has canceled the Washington Redskins trademark registration, calling the football team’s name “disparaging to Native Americans.”

The landmark case, which appeared before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board, was filed on behalf of five Native Americans. It was the second time such a case was filed.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: nfl; redskins; tyranny
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To: clintonh8r

The thing I like about a consumption tax particularly one only at the end consumer level is that it ends all corporate taxation. It ends the non-profit issue and encourages production. It also lowers the real cost of labor. I see what you like about a flat tax and I like that as well. I just think a flat tax continues an invasive IRS. In the end, I’d take either over what we now have. Reform isn’t good enough. The agency is a tool of the Democratic Party and, scary enough for liberals, a tool of whoever is in power. The guns pointed at conservatism right now, but it can pivot around pretty fast.


81 posted on 06/20/2014 3:09:08 AM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: justiceseeker93
That's just the way crony capitalism works.

Except that it isn't any type of function of capitalism. It is rather a crude attempt at the coercion of uniformity in the area of social values. It is cut from the same cloth as Bolshevik uniformity under the sociopathic regime of Lenin & Trotsky; or as slightly modified, while preserving the facade of private enterprise under Hitler & the Brownshirts in Nazi Germany.

The American Left is determined to intimidate any & all of us into accepting the pretense that people are interchangeable. Hence any notice of human differences calls for an ever more obsessive denial & ever more extreme sanctions.

To really appreciate the intellectual absurdity of this process, consider Footnote On Egalitarian Compulsion.

Among the rational, it should be obvious that what is insulting to American Indian tribes, is not someone recognizing their ethnicity, but the antics of Leftist crackpots, who believe that that recognition is insulting. People proud of their heritage are not insulted by references to it, even over trivial aspects; and honoring that trivial aspect (skin pigment) by making it the symbol of a hopefully competitive sports franchise, is hardly an insult among the rational.

William Flax

82 posted on 06/20/2014 8:53:38 AM PDT by Ohioan
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To: the anti-mahdi
The Left often plays the distraction game, to be sure. But in their war on observations on the subject of ethnicity, they are not trying to distract; rather to intimidate. While seemingly contradictory, this attack on the football franchise is actually cut from the same tactical cloth as the Nazi requirement that German Jews wear badges calling for their exclusion on the streets of Germany.

We are being systematically conditioned to accept forced uniformity of thought on matters deemed critical to the future intended for us, by those who despise the individualistic, free society, achieved by the Founders of America. Treating the independent minded, who resist, with maximum insult is a calculated technique.

William Flax

83 posted on 06/20/2014 9:06:20 AM PDT by Ohioan
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To: justiceseeker93

It’s all aside from the point. People have a constitutional right to use disparaging trademarks. A team ought to be allowed to call themselves Big Lipped Spear Chuckers, Drunken Micks or Greedy Jooos! if it wants, and leave it up to the fans if they want to pay for tickets to their games, and the media if they want to air them.


84 posted on 06/21/2014 3:07:01 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (End the occupation. Annex today.)
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To: Eleutheria5; okie01; kristinn; Red Badger; ml/nj; Ohioan; EveningStar; dfwgator; ...
...and the media if they want to air them.

I don't think there will be any trouble airing Redskins' games at lest until the current NFL television contracts and the Redskins' local radio contracts and local TV and radio publicity show contracts expire.

But some leftist sportscasters are reportedly already talking about a "political correctness" plan not to mention the name "Redskins" when talking about the team. Even if they tried to do that, they would probably slip up from habit.

85 posted on 06/21/2014 4:22:42 PM PDT by justiceseeker93
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To: justiceseeker93

But redskins are my favorite potatoes.


86 posted on 06/21/2014 4:28:56 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (End the occupation. Annex today.)
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To: Ohioan

Amen!


87 posted on 06/21/2014 5:40:50 PM PDT by the anti-mahdi
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To: justiceseeker93
But some leftist sportscasters are reportedly already talking about a "political correctness" plan not to mention the name "Redskins" when talking about the team.

Being among the species journalistica, sportswriters are not the brightest bulbs on the planet.

But, eventually, one of them will figure they are all sounding like affected fools and, without further conversation, that will be the end of that.

88 posted on 06/21/2014 6:13:45 PM PDT by okie01 (The Mainstream Media: Ignorance on parade.)
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