[grundle]

This is my blog and my opinion. Every word here is my own. Nothing has been copied from any other websites. And the name "grundle" is taken from a video game.

[exDemMom]

So, most native Americans are not offended by being honored by having a team named after them.

But a loud minority of liberals throw hissy fits over it.

I wonder, have any of them ever thrown hissy fits over the team name “Vikings”? After all, a large number of people were also descended from Norwegians.

[OttawaFreeper]

I can see Hitlery as President allowing movies like “Beverly Hills Cop” or “Trading Places” or “Animal House” being either heavily censored or basically banned over complaints of alleged sexism, racism, or homophobia in these and other 1970s and 1980s produced movies.

[Tilted Irish Kilt]

(title):" Two years after Obama revokes trademark protection for Washington Redskins, 90% of Native Americans say they are not offended by the term"

I didn't realize that the _resident was authorized to be in charge of, and make his own decisions about the Patent Office, supposedly above politics ?
The fact that 90% of Native Americans are not offended by the team name "Redskins" doesn't surprise either;
it's just the _resident listening to that still, small, voice in his brain called Valjar attempting to raise their illegitimate heir called chaos.

[Yardstick]

Did anyone poll the Indians two years ago?

[Recompennation]

We will remove his majesty’s Nose from all those things he has inserted it into starting in 2017. A real change for moving this country forward.

[trebb]

The real story - Native Americans not as easily manipulated as Blacks and illegal Latinos.....

[Thales Miletus]

Let me say right up front: I am not a Redskins fan, or much of a football fan in general.

Has the pResident revoked the trademark of the Chicago Blackhawks, Florida Seminoles, Cleveland Indians..etc....?

If not then he needs to STFU.

[shibumi]

"Every word here is my own. Nothing has been copied from any other websites. And the name "grundle" is taken from a video game."

Congratulations! You wrote seven sentences and three of them ended in "etc."

I guess you figure your comment was too special to be posted along with the other FReeper opinions on the three existing threads posted within the past day.

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3432016/posts

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3432050/posts

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3432141/posts

Nor could you be bothered to do the research and find that this trademark decision has been (in essence) reversed -

"Offensive trademarks are OK in US (Redskins relevant)" (FreeRepublic thread from December '15)

And you're a wee bit sensitive about your chosen name. Well, I guess I would be too, if I had chosen to name myself after a Gooch.

http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Grundle

[humblegunner]

This is my blog

[shibumi]

[John W]

Even two 100% liberal pukes Tony Kornheiser and Mike Wilbon were stepping back yesterday from their pure hatred of the nickname (rather recent development). May be because it’s a Post poll where they worked together forever.

[rjsimmon]

I am a “native” American. Born here. Folks were both born here. Their folks were born here. All the way back to before the American Revolution.

I truly hate the hyphenation and utilization of “native” when the MSM wants to identify American Indians. They are no more native than anyone else that was born here.

At one point in time, even they migrated here.

[tbw2]

There is a Navajo school that uses the same monikor. If Native Americans use the term for themselves, it isn’t off limits to everyone else.

[Thumper1960]

I never truly understood the antagonism between native American named teams and the “activists”. There can not be any hint of caricature when naming a team for Seminoles or Apache or Cherokee or any other tribal names or themes. The purpose of a team name is to evoke strength, victory, success, honor, toughness, heroism, invincibility and more. By taking on a mascot and name that places those attributes foremost, it is honoring and not debasing.

[randita]

Some years back, Allentown/Bethlehem, PA, got a minor league baseball franchise. The name of the team is the Iron Pigs (a reference to the glory days of Bethlehem Steel Co.).

They solicited ideas and then votes for a team mascot and the one that won the contest was “Pork Chop”. ONE Puerto Rican complained that pork chop was a derogatory term for Puerto Ricans and the name was disqualified, despite the fact that numerous Puerto Ricans claimed they were not aware that pork chop was derogatory. They’d never heard such a thing.

So in the world of PC, ONE squeaky wheel is all it takes to override the opinions of many thousands.

Too bad. Pork Chop was such a cute name.

[dila813]

When administrations change, I want to see the same abuse heaped on the liberal left.

[2banana]

So does this mean I can print up a bunch a Redskin football T-shirts and sell them with giving up a royalty?

[vpintheak]

Bammy is a lefty. Therefore he is smarter than everyone else, & knows what is best for us.

[John O]

26 posts and no one has this up here yet? We're slipping!