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If the Redskins are forced to change their name.......


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I say that Arthur should tell everyone to F U and change the name to the Washington Bullets. Just to bring back what DC is known for....... Logo a big as AK-47

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This country is fucked. First donald sterling, now this. Government dipping its nose where it dont belong. Next thing you know...you wont be able to start a new thread on a message board without screening for proper thread placement....

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prob something like the warriors......where everyone can save face and turn the logo into a indian warrior chief, which i have no reason to think they should. next they'll be going after the indians and braves and how about the browns? someone somewhere will make an argument that it hurts their feelings cuz when they see the browns name they see skin color.

 

so how about the cleveland burnt matches or purple raisins?

 

or do you mind if we dance wit yo DATES?

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I suspect that the Redskins will apply for an exemption on the grounds of cultural heritage - if anyone else tries to name their team 'Redskins' they wouldn't be able to, but because it's such a part of american culture it can stay.

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This country is fucked. First donald sterling, now this. Government dipping its nose where it dont belong. Next thing you know...you wont be able to start a new thread on a message board without screening for proper thread placement....

 

hopefully I'm just missing the tongue in cheek...but you're not actually suggesting the "gubment" was behind the NBA forcing Sterling out or even the pressure to make Snyder change the logo..are you? The govt had absolutely "zero" to do with the NBA's decision that Donald Sterling was bad for their brand, none whatsoever. The NBA is a private organization and if they felt Donald Sterlings private comments didn't reflect badly on the rest of the owners and brass at HQ..than they would have done nothing and the govt probably couldn't have done shit about it. With the Redskins, that was the patent office saying their logo isn't protected anymore because it would be akin to a team calling themselves the so and so niggers, they could do so...but they couldn't sue anybody for infringing on their brand because you can't patent the N word. They just came to a legal decision that Redskin is akin to the N word. Snyder doesn't have to do anything, he can keep calling the team the Redskins.....but you and I can make Washington Redskins merchandise now and sell if we were so inclined. He just has to live with that if he's super attached to the Redskins name. That is all. Nothing to do with Govt overreach on this one.

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that's why this whole thing is a joke.

 

i'm sure the hartfort whalers (remember them?) had the 'don't kill the whales' people in an uproar. you can't do or say anything w/o someone getting offended.

 

fuck 'em all.

 

snyder should just donate some money to the indian liquor society so everyone get free firewater for a year. meanwhile all the indian casino owners continue to get richer and richer and don't have a word to say.

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that's why this whole thing is a joke.

 

i'm sure the hartfort whalers (remember them?) had the 'don't kill the whales' people in an uproar. you can't do or say anything w/o someone getting offended.

 

fuck 'em all.

 

snyder should just donate some money to the indian liquor society so everyone get free firewater for a year. meanwhile all the indian casino owners continue to get richer and richer and don't have a word to say.

Lol. God I love some of the shit you post on here Mik. You're such a conservative trapped in a liberals body
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how was the NBA team used to be the Washington bullets? fitting for DC for a while. I am just thinking that if this change is forced, it could start a whole thing across the country. No more Indians, braves, local H.S. here in Cali their mascot is the Arabs (think it kinda funny), I remember my Jr. high school had to change their mascot "Warriors" a few years back to something cream puff.

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hopefully I'm just missing the tongue in cheek...but you're not actually suggesting the "gubment" was behind the NBA forcing Sterling out or even the pressure to make Snyder change the logo..are you? The govt had absolutely "zero" to do with the NBA's decision that Donald Sterling was bad for their brand, none whatsoever. The NBA is a private organization and if they felt Donald Sterlings private comments didn't reflect badly on the rest of the owners and brass at HQ..than they would have done nothing and the govt probably couldn't have done shit about it. With the Redskins, that was the patent office saying their logo isn't protected anymore because it would be akin to a team calling themselves the so and so niggers, they could do so...but they couldn't sue anybody for infringing on their brand because you can't patent the N word. They just came to a legal decision that Redskin is akin to the N word. Snyder doesn't have to do anything, he can keep calling the team the Redskins.....but you and I can make Washington Redskins merchandise now and sell if we were so inclined. He just has to live with that if he's super attached to the Redskins name. That is all. Nothing to do with Govt overreach on this one.

The NFL is also a private organization last I checked

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This whole thing about the team name is pure bullshit. Hell why don't we just get rid of the team names completely. There absolutely has to be someone in the world offended by every name humanly possible. Don't like the name? Tough shit don't buy the product. Even more complete shit is the government getting involved. Fuck they can't run a country so I am pretty sure they do not have time to worry about meaningless crap like this.

 

I guarantee you that if there was a team named the Hillbillies the entire hillbilly nation could complain and it would go abso-fucking-lutely nowhere!!

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i wonder how much of a donation FLA ST. had to give the seminole tribe to 'endorse' them?

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/24/sports/24mascot.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

 

They've always had an affiliation with the program, even choosing the face paint and garb of Chief Osceola.

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The NFL is also a private organization last I checked

 

 

right, which is why the name has been around for as long as it has. Nobody has denied Dan Snyder the ability to continue calling his team the Redskins. All that has happened is the patent office has determined that the name "Redskin" was indeed a racial epithet at one point akin to the N word...and it can't be trademarked. A trademark is something that can only be granted and enforced by a govt so it isn't an "intrinsic" right of any person or company. The U.S is fortunate to have strong patent law, places like Greece your intellectual property rights mean dick. Anybody can come up with a good idea and anybody else can copy it a week later....cause they have a weak govt or one that is willfully uninterested in such matters. Nobody can or will "force" the Redskins to change their name...it's societal pressure and that afterall is the fundamental principle of capitalism. If enough people demand the name be changed and the team still doesn't change it...they could lose money. That's it. No more no less.

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