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06-10-2014, 04:11 PM #51
Alright, fuck it. What should they be called? I'll go for "Warriors." They wouldn't even have to change the uniforms much.
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06-10-2014, 04:15 PM #52
"Losers" sounds appropriate.
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06-10-2014, 04:43 PM #53
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06-10-2014, 08:39 PM #54
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06-10-2014, 09:35 PM #55
funny thing is, changing the name would give them an opportunity to sell a whole boatload of new merchandise!
"fuck off you asshat gaper shit for brains fucktard wanker." - Jesus Christ
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"everybody's got their hooks into you, fuck em....forge on motherfuckers, drag all those bitches across the goal line with you." - (not so) ill-advised strategy
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06-10-2014, 09:48 PM #56
Why is white and black acceptable but red and yellow not? Just kinda odd when you think about it.
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06-11-2014, 08:22 AM #57
I think the native americans are more embarrassed to be associated with the word "Washington" than the use of Redskin.
Click. Point. Chute.
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06-11-2014, 10:21 AM #58
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06-11-2014, 11:36 AM #59
I still don't think there's one true definition of Indian, but a little googling shows that you are generally correct. They may not use the word Indian to reference themselves (most often referenced generally as "Alaska Natives", which I'd heard, but didn't know that they did not consider themselves to be "Indian"). But digging further, the video was put together/sponsored by NCAI.org, which includes Alaska Natives as part of its general advocacy (and they have a spot on its executive board) so that explains their inclusion, I bet.
"fuck off you asshat gaper shit for brains fucktard wanker." - Jesus Christ
"She was tossing her bean salad with the vigor of a Drunken Pop princess so I walked out of the corner and said.... "need a hand?"" - Odin
"everybody's got their hooks into you, fuck em....forge on motherfuckers, drag all those bitches across the goal line with you." - (not so) ill-advised strategy
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06-11-2014, 03:18 PM #60Funky But Chic
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It's both a little clearer and a little more confusing in Canada. Clearer because they officially consider 3 groups, the Inuit, the Metis and First Nations (what we would call Indians or Native Americans) to be the "Aboriginal Peoples of Canada". but more confusing because they have also decided that "Eskimo" is perjorative, but it was the only collective word that described the 3 different Arctic peoples (the Inuit are one of those 3 groups, along with the Yupik and Inupiat), so calling all of them "Inuit" is actually wrong.
To make it even more confusing, the Metis are considered to be an aboriginal people, but they are essentially the product of cross-breeding of Europeans and Aboriginal peoples, including the Inuit, Yupik and Inupiat peoples. So the Metis are really 4 groups, which is confusing but better than it used to be because they used to subdivide them further into French- and English-speaking Metis, which they've now given up on.
What you would have if say XXX-er (asian but with a white grandfather) had a kid with a Metis woman is way too complicated to even think about.
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06-11-2014, 03:38 PM #61
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06-11-2014, 03:45 PM #62
To the best of my knowledge (somewhat dated 1st Nations referral seminars), the Yupik and Inupiat are wholly contained within Alaska, and Canada only contains Inuit (as these peoples relate to Canada's treaty negotiations). I think there is some overlap between the Inupiat and Inuit peoples in Alaska and NWT that in Canada we call Inuvialuit (a subgroup of the western Inuit).
I've never been able to sort out the distinction of Métis, and I think the most common means of designation is to be accepted by their respective Métis community as a Métis (and such verification is approved by the Canadian Metis Council).
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06-11-2014, 03:52 PM #63"fuck off you asshat gaper shit for brains fucktard wanker." - Jesus Christ
"She was tossing her bean salad with the vigor of a Drunken Pop princess so I walked out of the corner and said.... "need a hand?"" - Odin
"everybody's got their hooks into you, fuck em....forge on motherfuckers, drag all those bitches across the goal line with you." - (not so) ill-advised strategy
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06-11-2014, 03:59 PM #64Funky But Chic
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06-11-2014, 04:17 PM #65
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06-18-2014, 08:29 AM #66Registered User
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http://thinkprogress.org/default/201...football-team/
The United States Patent and Trademark Office has canceled six federal trademark registrations for the name of the Washington Redskins, ruling that the name is “disparaging to Native Americans” and thus cannot be trademarked under federal law that prohibits the protection of offensive or disparaging language.
The U.S. PTO’s Trademark Trial and Appeal Board issued a ruling in the case, brought against the team by plaintiff Amanda Blackhorse, Wednesday morning.
“We decide, based on the evidence properly before us, that these registrations must be cancelled because they were disparaging to Native Americans at the respective times they were registered,” the board wrote in its opinion.
“The Trademark Trial and Appeal Board agreed with our clients that the team’s name and trademarks disparage Native Americans. The Board ruled that the Trademark Office should never have registered these trademarks in the first place,” Jesse Witten, the plaintiffs’ lead attorney, said in a press release. “We presented a wide variety of evidence – including dictionary definitions and other reference works, newspaper clippings, movie clips, scholarly articles, expert linguist testimony, and evidence of the historic opposition by Native American groups – to demonstrate that the word ‘redskin’ is an ethnic slur.”
“I am extremely happy that the [Board] ruled in our favor,” Blackhorse said in a statement. “It is a great victory for Native Americans and for all Americans. We filed our petition eight years ago and it has been a tough battle ever since. I hope this ruling brings us a step closer to that inevitable day when the name of the Washington football team will be changed. The team’s name is racist and derogatory. I’ve said it before and I will say it again – if people wouldn’t dare call a Native American a ‘redskin’ because they know it is offensive, how can an NFL football team have this name?”
The Trial and Appeals Board previously rescinded the team’s trademark protections as part of a case filed in 1992. A federal court later overturned the ruling on appeal due to a technicality that the plaintiffs say has been fixed in this most recent case.
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06-18-2014, 08:49 AM #67
Should they change it to Rich Casino Owners (who live in trailers with a $60,000 pick ups parked outside)?
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06-18-2014, 08:56 AM #68
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06-18-2014, 09:09 AM #69
can you be a racist if your part indian? I just wish I could get on the casino deal. I could use a new truck.
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06-18-2014, 09:11 AM #70
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06-18-2014, 09:13 AM #71Registered User
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06-18-2014, 09:22 AM #72
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06-18-2014, 09:42 AM #73
That's copyright law, not trademark.
IME, most Indians refer to themselves as Indians. It might not be technically accurate, and the PC police might have created "Native American" in its place, but Indian is still an acceptable term."fuck off you asshat gaper shit for brains fucktard wanker." - Jesus Christ
"She was tossing her bean salad with the vigor of a Drunken Pop princess so I walked out of the corner and said.... "need a hand?"" - Odin
"everybody's got their hooks into you, fuck em....forge on motherfuckers, drag all those bitches across the goal line with you." - (not so) ill-advised strategy
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06-18-2014, 09:50 AM #74
Why don't they just change the fucking name? I don't remember much outrage when the Bullets became the Wizards. What difference does it make? The name Redskins is clearly offensive. Just imagine if there was a team called the Niggers. I don't see how Redskins is any less offensive.
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06-18-2014, 09:55 AM #75"fuck off you asshat gaper shit for brains fucktard wanker." - Jesus Christ
"She was tossing her bean salad with the vigor of a Drunken Pop princess so I walked out of the corner and said.... "need a hand?"" - Odin
"everybody's got their hooks into you, fuck em....forge on motherfuckers, drag all those bitches across the goal line with you." - (not so) ill-advised strategy
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