Today, the U. S. Patent office revoked 6 federal trademark registrations for the Washington Redskins football team, on the grounds that the name is offensive and disparaging.
Why was this done? Great question.
The Washington Redskins have been the Redskins since 1933 – first in Boston and from 1937 on in Washington – and nobody gave a damn … until a few (by no means all) “native Americans” and some chronically angry, demanding whiners of the far left – the politically correct, “we\’re pissed off at everything all the time, so why not this too?” crowd – pitched a fit. Now, magically that name has suddenly become so offensive that it can\’t exist anymore.
What is offensive about “Redskins”?
The name originally may have been meant to honor the Boston Redskins\’ coach, William Henry “Lone Star” Deitz, who claimed to be part Sioux (this, admittedly, is in doubt). But, regardless of the name\’s genesis, it was supposed to communicate bravery and spirit. It certainly was not meant to be offensive or disparaging: why in the world would a sports team intentionally do that to itself?
But the Professionally Oppressed, and their complicit media, have gotten into the act. And now the U.S. Patent office, like obedient lap dogs, have wagged their tails and revoked the registrations.
Redskin ownership is vowing to fight this ruling. And though I am a long-time fan of the rival New York Giants, I wish them every success in doing so.
Hmmmmm, I wonder if “Giants” is offensive and disparaging to tall people. Or maybe short people.
Come to think of it, I root for the Yankees too, and that name is probably offensive to the south.
I don\’t pay much attention to hockey, but are the New Jersey Devils bedeviling satanic worshippers?
Get my drift? I\’m sure you do. Every name can be offensive and disparaging if you work hard enough at it.
Or, putting it as succinctly as possible, enough with the PC BS. OK?
