Posted on 06/19/2014 8:41:15 AM PDT by ConservingFreedom
The Redskins got a flurry of bad news Wednesday when the U.S. Patent Office canceled the team's trademark registration, because the team name is “disparaging to Native Americans." Basically, it means that the team could lose its federally trademarked protections and could hasten the franchise to change the name, depending on how much pressure the rest of the league puts on Washington for a potential loss of revenue.
While Miami University, now the RedHawks but formerly known as the Redskins, tried to offer some advice on Wednesday, the sports editor of the Seattle Times, Don Shelton, is taking a more drastic step.
The newspaper, in effect, won't allow the Redskins name to grace its pages any longer.
Why exactly?
"It's time to ban the use of 'Redskins,' the absurd, offensive and outdated name of the NFL team in Washington, D.C.," Shelton wrote. "Past time, actually ... We're banning the name for one reason: It's offensive. Far from honoring Native Americans, the term colors an entire race. Many Native Americans consider it an outdated label placed on their people."
The Times isn't the first influential media outlet to take these steps. TheMMQB.com doesn't use the term and neither do the Kansas City Star, the Oregonian, the Orange County Register and the San Francisco Chronicle.
Shelton explained that when he was hired as sports editor five years ago, he convinced himself that a decision that had been made 15 years earlier to minimize the use of the name was good enough. According to Shelton, the Times' policy was to allow the Redskins name once per article and not to use it in headlines or photo captions.
But that stance is no longer appropriate in the eyes of Shelton, who ends his piece writing that he's happy for readers to express their opinions. Yet ...
"Still, your feedback won't change our decision," Shelton wrote. "Some things are too important to be put to a vote."
We’ve got a lot of “redskins” here in Oklahoma ...
Is that Seattle paper not going to use “Oklahoma” anymore in print?
Oklahoma’s state’s name is derived from the Choctaw words okla and humma, meaning “red people”!
My ongoing unintentional boycott of the Seattle Times just got intentional!
Will they force the Saints to change their name, because it’s offensive to Non-Catholics?
I understand that they were going to rename the team “Washington Foreskins”, but didn’t want to confuse the team with Congress and some federal agencies.
The Washington Weasels
Between 1958 and 1961 Communist China had a “great leap forward” where the ruling class attempted to change thousands of years of culture. It failed, but only after millions died.
I believe we are currently living our own “great leap forward”. In the end, this will also fail, the only question is how many Americans die before the left is forced to back down?
Perhaps Mr. Snyder should change the name of the team to the D.C. Fascists and put a profile of Harry Reid on one side of the Helmet and Obama on the other.
a very VERY APT Name indeed!!
The Washington Jihadists ....
Redhawks?! That's a .44 magnum revolver. Boycott them for promoting gun violence!
So nothing else matters. The girls in nigeria. The buildup of power by al quaeda and other bearded savages. The economy in the toilet. The irs being used against the people.
The only thing that matters in the post-civilized USA is the symbolism of the name of a team.
They find no irony in banning the use of a word because it offends humans while supporting abortion.
Okay then.
I think they should be the Washington Redcoats. It’d be a poke in the politicians’ eye (who probably wouldn’t get it).
I find the name Detroit “Lions” offensive to....Lions.
They should rename the team in honor of their critics....The Washington Thinskins
Washington Red Inks
Harry Reid, to show his support for Native Americans will be changing his name to Sagging Horses Ass.
I don’t think parakeets and puppies follow football anyway.
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