Woman who led the charge on Redskins' patent case turns her attention to Chiefs

[Wolvie]

The fact that she is going after the Chiefs now shows that she is just on a crusade against anything to do with native americans. no one in their right mind would be offended by the word chief. It is the head of a tribe and a person of stature. Someone to look up to. She is just a bitter woman looking for a fight and probably trying to make a buck or two in the process. The redskins ruling will be overturned

 

[NinerSickness]

no one in their right mind would be offended by the word chief.

This chick needs to go after David Letterman for his game: Stop Calling Me Chief.

 

[NinerSickness]

This chick has given new meaning to the term: the C word.

...Ok that's all I have for now.

 

[Wolvie]

You would think the logical next victim she would have would be the Cleveland Indians with their cartoonish Chief Wahoo or Yahoo. She is just a tool getting her 15 minutes. It'll all come crashing down on her

 

[Mondio]

This chick has given new meaning to the term: the C word.

...Ok that's all I have for now.

I know, i know. It rhymes with bunt doesn't it?

Just to keep it sports related.

 

[NinerSickness]

I know, i know. It rhymes with bunt doesn't it?

Just to keep it sports related.

It rhymes with leaf, but I can't type it because it's an extremely racist word I shan't say.

 

[Rams4ever]

I don't get this. I can understand why the name Redskins may be offensive to some, but Chiefs is a name that only holds honor and adulation. This is kind of crazy...

 

[Mondio]

shows you how smart I am

anyway, I can understand the word ****er, i've heard that, plenty of times to convey some pretty bad stuff. I know those familiar with each other use it too, but I call my friends shitheads and dumbfuckers all the time too. Doesn't mean a team should be named after them, unless it's a beer league softball team.

But Redskin? People tell me it's racist. People tell me it's derogatory. They tell me it means bad things. But I have never, ever heard someone use it that way. What time period was this popular in? If in fact it ever was a slur word, well, it's not anymore. Get over it. Nobody is calling you a redskin to be a big meanie. Nobody is mocking you, save for a few assholes that you aren't getting rid of anyway. name change or not.

Redskins is offensive. Chief is offensive, the word Indian is offensive, Pictures of feathers are offensive, a head dress is offensive. A picture of a tomahawk is offensive. It's ridiculous. I'm starting to think the whole native culture was just offensive??? Is that what they're trying to tell me?

 

[jarntt]

Let's Go Nads, Go Nads, GoNads!!! Gonads?

Here Are The Most Tasteless Mascots You'll See Outside Of A Redskins Game

 

[Money]

KC has a .5% Native American population base. DC has a .8% Native American population base. It would make much more sense if they just change their names to the Washington Negroes and Kansas City Crackers.

 

[wazzu31]

Are the totem pole logo of the Seahawks ok with her? Chief Seattle be damned.

 

[Wolvie]

Native Americans won't be satisfied until they've completely removed themselves from the history books I guess

 

[jakedog56]

My high school alumni just changed their name from Redskins this year after about a 100 year history. All of the local natives had no problem with the name, but it is what it is so whatever.

The part I don't get is that 100 miles or so to the west, the Neah Bay school has the Red Devils as a mascot, which is waaaay more offensive than Redskins, Chiefs, Braves, etc. but no one sats anything about it because the area is 99% Native Americans!

Typical double standard crap.

 

[mcnabb7542]

Why Oklahoma of course. We must change the name now because it's so offensive.

After all, the state's name is derived from the Choctaw words okla and humma, meaning "red people".

Didn't you know it was a slur? Get with the program.

Cali when the new version of "Names that are now Offensive" comes out on tape can you let me know so I can become politically correct?

 

[Caliskinsfan]

Cali when the new version of "Names that are now Offensive" comes out on tape can you let me know so I can become politically correct?

I would, but I would probably be too busy laughing and burning my copy of it.

 

[nebearsfan70]

KC has a .5% Native American population base. DC has a .8% Native American population base. It would make much more sense if they just change their names to the Washington Negroes and Kansas City Crackers.

Oh I get it! Sure, and while they're at it Baltimore can change their name to the Slums.


Makes perfect sense to me.

 

[Caliskinsfan]

Oh I get it! Sure, and while they're at it Baltimore can change their name to the Slums.


Makes perfect sense to me.

LMAO

 

[Fountain City Blues]

She has already stated she is going after anybody and everybody one at a time who uses some nickname form of Native Americans in sports. What a country!

I am pretty sure the words Chieftain and Chief came from the Europeans.

Origin of CHIEF

Middle English, from Anglo-French chief, chef head, chief, from Latin caput head — more at head First Known Use: 15th century


Chief - Definition and More from the Free Merriam-Webster Dictionary

Clearly we have nothing to do with the Native Americans. I mean really, is an arrowhead really unique to Native American Culture? Why not be a Kung Chief, or a Germanic group? Or some other Non-Native American group? Clearly we have nothing to do with this situation at all.

Commander-in-Chief Obama eagerly awaits the outcome if such a conflict occurs.

 

[MHSL82]

http://www.oxforddictionaries....english/redskin

Redskin is first recorded in the late 17th century and was applied to the Algonquian peoples generally, but specifically to the Delaware (who lived in what is now southern New York State and New York City, New Jersey, and eastern Pennsylvania). Redskin referred not to the natural skin color of the Delaware, but to their use of vermilion face paint and body paint.

In time, however, through a process that in linguistics is called pejoration, by which a neutral term acquires an unfavorable connotation or denotation, redskin lost its neutral, accurate descriptive sense and became a term of disparagement. Red man is first recorded in the early 17th century and was originally neutral in tone.Red Indian is first recorded in the early 19th century and was used by the British, far more than by Americans, to distinguish the Indians of the subcontinent from the Indians of the Americas.

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The car was introduced to the press as the Camaro, considered to be a good name because nobody knew what it meant. Chevrolet produced an old French dictionary showing that the word meant "friend" or "companion", but Ford found an alternate meaning in an old Spanish dictionary-"a small, shrimp-like creature. "The automotive press had a good laugh over that, and an even bigger one when one journalist found yet another meaning-"loose bowels." wikipedia

Words can be hurtful. . . (Just a reference to Camaro, not Redskin. Words mean what they mean to you - if it means something bad to you, it is offensive regardless of what others think. (That doesn't mean it must be changed.) If it means a football team to you, it's not offensive, unless you are a member of a football team, I mean, a group of homosapiens who happen to play a sport for a living.)

 

[Wolvie]

I think the argument really boils down to freedom. People have the freedom to be offended, and businesses have the freedom to name their organizations. If the term redskin was truly that vile, then the name would be prohibitive of maximizing profits. It isn't as if the creation of the name was to spite the Native American population