The hilarious defense of the Deadskins name

[BSmack]

Unintentional of course. I don't thing Snyder can process irony.

Here's a sample

The PTO has registered hundreds if not thousands of marks that the Team believes are racist, or misogynistic, vulgar, or otherwise offensive. By way of example only, the following marks are registered today: TAKE YO PANTIES OFF clothing; DANGEROUS NEGRO shirts; SLUTSSEEKER dating services; DAGO SWAGG clothing; DUMB BLONDE beer; TWATTY GIRL cartoons; BAKED BY A NEGRO bakery goods; BIG TITTY BLEND coffee; RETARDIPEDIA website; MIDGET-MAN condoms and inflatable sex dolls; and JIZZ underwear. These are not isolated instances. The government routinely registers pornographers’ marks: TEENSDOPORN.COM, MILFSDOPORN.COM, THUG PORN, GHETTO BOOTY, and BOUND GANGBANGS are but a few.

http://deadspin.com/the-skins-latest-co ... 1740262036

[Left Seater]

Is there any free speech issues here?

Further the Redskins have to be loving all this talk as it keeps their name at the forefront when it otherwise wouldn't be.

[BSmack]

Leave it to you guys to be serious about a post that should bring out the 3rd grader in you.

Baked By A Negro?

[mvscal]

Snyder might not know shit about football but hiring some sharp, pipe hitting Members of the Tribe to kneecap your case in court is child's play.

Shomer Shabbat, bitch...

[BSmack]

BSmack-

I have read your take several times, but do not understand the point you are attempting to make. The Team (NFL's Washington Redskins) had six U.S. trademark registrations canceled by the PTO on grounds that the name REDSKINS is scandalous. The Team is simply pointing out in its brief the absurdity of the PTO's decision to cancel the Team's registrations on that basis, when one considers that the PTO regularly grants trademark registrations for marks that are far more scandalous by comparison.

The Redskin's opening brief is excellent, in my opinion:

To quote Deadspin's Barry Petchesky

This feels like an entirely valid legal point to make. It’s also an argument that could be not-inaccurately summed up as “‘Washington Redskins’ is every bit as crude as ‘Twatty Girl,’ ‘Thug Porn,’ and ‘Dick Balls,’ but so what?”

[smackaholic]

How is it the Cleveland Injuns have escaped the hyper PC police? Their name is considered derogatory by some and their emblem could definitely be viewed as derogatory, unlike the redskins which is quite dignified, IMO.

And their defense, while hilarious, is spot on.

[Felix]

Further the Redskins have to be loving all this talk as it keeps their name at the forefront when it otherwise wouldn't be.

the deadskins are one of the worst teams in the NFL.....pretty much the equivalent of a bye week when teams have to play them....the last thing they want is to have their names at the forefront for all the wrong reasons.....

How is it the Cleveland Injuns have escaped the hyper PC police? Their name is considered derogatory by some and their emblem could definitely be viewed as derogatory, unlike the redskins which is quite dignified, IMO.

Indians is not a derogatory term, that's what they are....Indians
I work for the Departement of the Interior, Office of the Special Trustee for American Indians.....my office is located on the Fort Hall Indian Reservation.....as far as the logo goes, yeah it's pretty offensive to Indians......

[Felix]

it's not the logo they are bitching about, it's the name

ding! ding! ding! we have a winner

indians are a little offended by this


and this


but not nearly as offended as use of the term Redskins

A: - Your employer's logo:

I'm not employed by the Bureau of Indian Affairs, I fall under the direction of the Office of the Special Trustee....
just for your information, the vast majority of upper management people with the BIA all have indian heritiage.....why would they create a logo that offends themselves?

[atmdad]

I work for the Departement of the Interior, Office of the Special Trustee for American Indians....

So you feed at the federal trough under the guise of an obscure federal program that assesses the value of tee-pees, wig-wams and mud huts. It is a bitch to get weened from that gub'mint teet.

[smackaholic]

Talking about hillarious defenses, I watched a bit of the deadskins/pats today. Tom really should have hung fity on them. Hell, seems like he hangs close to 50 even on decent defenses.