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Seattle Times: We won't use Redskins name in our newspaper
CBS Sports ^ | June 19, 2014 10:47 am ET | Josh Katzowitz

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"It's time to ban the use of 'Redskins,' the absurd, offensive and outdated name of the NFL team in Washington, D.C.," Shelton wrote.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 Many Native Americans consider it an outdated label placed on their people."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."


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Washington
KEYWORDS: liberalmedia; nfl; redskins
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To: dfwgator

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”!


41 posted on 06/19/2014 9:01:19 AM PDT by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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To: ConservingFreedom

My ongoing unintentional boycott of the Seattle Times just got intentional!


42 posted on 06/19/2014 9:02:04 AM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: Star Traveler

Will they force the Saints to change their name, because it’s offensive to Non-Catholics?


43 posted on 06/19/2014 9:02:34 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: ConservingFreedom

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.


44 posted on 06/19/2014 9:05:07 AM PDT by USMCPOP (Father of LCpl. Karl Linn, KIA 1/26/2005 Al Haqlaniyah, Iraq)
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To: MeshugeMikey

The Washington Weasels


45 posted on 06/19/2014 9:05:09 AM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Implementing class warfare by having no class.)
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To: GraceG
Or the "Washington Fightin' Whities"!


46 posted on 06/19/2014 9:05:17 AM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: ConservingFreedom

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?


47 posted on 06/19/2014 9:05:39 AM PDT by CIB-173RDABN (I do not doubt that our climate changes. I only doubt that anything man does has any effect.)
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To: ConservingFreedom

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.


48 posted on 06/19/2014 9:06:31 AM PDT by Jay Redhawk (Oh Crap!)
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To: reg45

a very VERY APT Name indeed!!

The Washington Jihadists ....


49 posted on 06/19/2014 9:06:45 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ( "Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill)
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To: ConservingFreedom
” Miami University, now the RedHawks but formerly known as the Redskins.....”

Redhawks?! That's a .44 magnum revolver. Boycott them for promoting gun violence!

50 posted on 06/19/2014 9:06:50 AM PDT by CrazyIvan (I lost my phased plasma rifle in a tragic hovercraft accident.)
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To: ConservingFreedom

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.


51 posted on 06/19/2014 9:07:00 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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To: ConservingFreedom

They find no irony in banning the use of a word because it offends humans while supporting abortion.


52 posted on 06/19/2014 9:07:42 AM PDT by Dexter Morgan (Everyone hides who they are.)
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To: ConservingFreedom
And how many of these do you have Seattle? Okay then.
53 posted on 06/19/2014 9:08:55 AM PDT by Ouchthatonehurt ("When you're going through hell, keep going." - Sir Winston Churchill)
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To: Ingtar

I think they should be the Washington Redcoats. It’d be a poke in the politicians’ eye (who probably wouldn’t get it).


54 posted on 06/19/2014 9:09:01 AM PDT by Dexter Morgan (Everyone hides who they are.)
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To: ConservingFreedom
Washington Foreskins !
55 posted on 06/19/2014 9:09:37 AM PDT by ßuddaßudd (>> F U B O << "What the hell kind of country is this if I can only hate a man if he's white?")
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To: dfwgator

I find the name Detroit “Lions” offensive to....Lions.


56 posted on 06/19/2014 9:09:40 AM PDT by RckyRaCoCo (Shall Not Be Infringed)
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To: Ingtar

They should rename the team in honor of their critics....The Washington Thinskins


57 posted on 06/19/2014 9:10:52 AM PDT by XRdsRev (New Jersey - Crossroads of the American Revolution)
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To: ßuddaßudd

Washington Red Inks


58 posted on 06/19/2014 9:11:26 AM PDT by RckyRaCoCo (Shall Not Be Infringed)
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To: ConservingFreedom

Harry Reid, to show his support for Native Americans will be changing his name to Sagging Horses Ass.


59 posted on 06/19/2014 9:11:29 AM PDT by dragonblustar ( Psalm 103, Psalm 37:7, Ephesians 6:12)
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To: ConservingFreedom

I don’t think parakeets and puppies follow football anyway.


60 posted on 06/19/2014 9:11:59 AM PDT by IronJack
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