No. It's not an overstep when a new application is denied. It most certainly is an overstep when a decades-old trademark is rescinded, and just magically coincidentally when it is politically convenient to do so.
You don't get to decide what is disparaging to another group.
You know, the only reason this hasn't already been dealt with and the word isn't more disparaged to the general public is because the people it is used against where mostly killed off.
You don't get to decide what is disparaging to another group.
You know, the only reason this hasn't already been dealt with and the word isn't more disparaged to the general public is because the people it is used against where mostly killed off.
If it's not an overstep to deny a new application, it's not an overstep to rescind a trademark after further review, no matter how long it's been.
I don't get to post my opinion?
5 people filed this suit. We've been down this path repeatedly in this thread.
Your first sentence is true. Your second sentence is hyperbole. There are 2.9 million American Indians in the 2010 census and that group is growing at twice the rate of the whole U.S.
2.9 million out of of nation of 300 million. Not quite the numbers that would be if our nation didn't try to kill them out.
I'm saying your opinion if the word redskin is an offensive slur to Native Americans means jack ****.
Do you also approve of the federal government essentially blackmailing the states to do their bidding by threatening to withhold highway funding, etc.? Pretty much the same coercion, just a different issue.
2.9 million out of of nation of 300 million. Not quite the numbers that would be if our nation didn't try to kill them out.
The fatal flaw in your position is that you're allowing emotion to dictate.2.9 million out of of nation of 300 million. Not quite the numbers that would be if our nation didn't try to kill them out.
Ah, so now I understand. You don't think as a citizen I have a First Amendment right to voice my opinion. Got it.
The Washington Redskins isn't a state, and they are the ones that violated the patent rules.
How long ago was that again?
Apparently not, as the name has been trademarked for decades. Unless, of course, you're saying that laws and rules should be constantly moving targets subject to the whims of whoever is in charge on any given day.
I didn't say that, you have every right to say what you think. All I'm doing is using my First Amendment right to tell you that your opinion on this subject means jack ****.
Doesn't change my point that a big reason why people don't think this word is racist is because there aren't enough people in the group that it is disparaging to stand up against it.
The Washington Redskins aren't a state, and they are the ones that violated the patent rules.
My opinion means jack **** because the US government is the arbitor. Thank you for acknowledging that I have a right to say what I think. Then the point of your original post to me was just to be emotional and contrary?
2.9 million out of of nation of 300 million. Not quite the numbers that would be if our nation didn't try to kill them out.
You don't get to decide what is disparaging to another group.
You know, the only reason this hasn't already been dealt with and the word isn't more disparaged to the general public is because the people it is used against where mostly killed off.
You can't decide what is disparaging to another group of people; that isn't how it works.
You don't actually think that the Indians invented casino's, do you?
Cool...I hope you give this message with the same venom to those claiming in BROAD terms that "native americans" do find it offensive. Because those individuals are "deciding what is disparaging" to another group as well.
So, essentially, you are clairvoyant and can read people minds and feelings, and you know what's better for them than they know for themselves.Doesn't change my point that a big reason why people don't think this word is racist is because there aren't enough people in the group that it is disparaging to stand up against it.
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