There are many sports teams that slur against the Native American population, of which I am a member of. Most of these are not as derogatory of a nature as "redskin". Most teams Native Americans take no issues with, such as the Warriors or the Braves or even the Semenoles.
If one could only imagine other ethnicities having a major sports team with a derogatory name for their race. I won't recite any examples I am sure you all can think of some all on your own.
Ever on to topic...
This ruling could have wide reaching implications. This could mean someone could name something anything they wanted even if it was offensive to others. People may do it just for the shock value.
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Wait, let me count to see if it is 140 characters or less.
I don't know why a trademark symbol wouldn't be considered speech.
Is it something you as a corporation want to say though?
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"This will be a fight against overwhelming odds from which survival cannot be expected. We will do what damage we can."
-- Capt. Copeland
The forum moderation (censorship) brigade seem mildly peeved at this victory for free speech.
Actually there have been protests. They just don't get a lot of TV time since it was just a bunch of Native Americans.
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In order to claim true Native American ancestry one has to show legal tribal affiliation my friend.
I made no such comparison. if you can't be intellectually honest here spare everyone and don't waste time on false premises.
whether or not it has "intrinsic" power is irrelevant. It has real, practical power that is demonstrated by the consequences of its use.
There you go with that word intrinsic again. It's like you know that you have to qualify your argument for it to even be defensible.
Whether or not I personally choose to be offended by a word does not fully control whether or not the utterance of that word is able to impact me negatively. Any word or statement has power insofar as someone reacts to it, and that person's reactions affect others. People literally die over words that they don't care about because a third party that heard them did. That's power whether you want to admit it or not.