[On the Patent office canceling the Redskins trademark]
What's next? The Atlanta Braves?
If they become The Atlanta Transgenders,; everything OK.
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I could see the Braves getting along just fine if they got rid of the Native American iconography. They could possibly pass it off as Braves as in people who are courageous.
The Redskins and Cleveland Indians need an outright brand makeover.
As for you, you're a fucking idiot.
And I don't thing Krystoffer Rygg would approve of a Nazi piece of shit using his band's name for a username on a neonazi site.
I actually want to say maybe Poe for this one. The use of transgender is throwing me. Stormfront users tend to be vile creatures who favor the awful tranny title. Of course, it is possible to be a racist trans person, so you never know.
Come on, why not one of these I've thought up;
-The Atlanta Honkies
-The Washington Blackfaces
-The Cleveland Crackers (I wanted the rhyme)
-etc.
And there you go.
While I can understand why "Redskins" is banned as trademark, being the equivalent of "Coon", "Chink" and "Kike," and that "Blaves" is way too stereotypical, I can't fathom why using tribes' names such as "Seminole" or Iroquois" in a team name can be contentious - after all, if they are using these names to show a "tough, don't-take-shit" image, it is rather flattering for these tribes; the Michigan State Spartans are using the name "Spartan" to project such an image to the world.
@JeanP : It's as much about the how as the what. Florida State calls itself the Seminoles and tries to give an accurate portrayal of the Seminole people (albeit in a sporting context) - mascots done tastefully and in accurate period costume.
Some people still oppose it - feel it veers too close to stereotypes, and it's a still extant ethnic group (unlike Spartans) who didn't start the team (unlike the Fighting Irish) - but it's not nearly as controversial as the university of Illinois and its "Chief Illiniwek" mascot, who was not dressed as an Illini but as a Sioux, and who the NCAA forced Illinois to retire in 2007.
> If they become The Atlanta Transgenders,; everything OK.
Uh, no. The whole point is to not insult the namesake, so switching to crazy stereotypes of trans people would be exactly wrong.
If you can't think of any crazy stereotypes of trans people that aren't 100% true...
I would suspect most current Indian-themed teams in the US can stay as long as they tread lightly. Though the Cleveland Indians will have to change their mascot.
Maybe if it were something like "Atlanta Porch-Monkeys", that would be an equivalent.
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