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Townhall
Silencing
Diversity
Erick
Erickson
Jun
21, 2014
The
United States Patent and Trademark Office invalidated several patents
belonging to the Washington Redskins. This is not the first attempt
by aggrieved parties to have the trademarks revoked.
A
recent poll showed more than 70 percent of Redskins fans opposed
changing the team name. More so, a majority of Americans have not
found the team name to be offensive. Even more telling, there are
numerous sports teams on Indian reservations around the United States
that use the name Redskins. When the team name and logo were created,
Native Americans participated.
But
the patent office has ruled that, at creation decades ago, it was
commonly understood that the word "redskins" was offensive.
This conjuring of convenient facts decades after the fact is a
favorite game of professional victims.
An
honest person would concede that most Americans do not find the word
redskins offensive and an honest person would concede that at its
creation the trademarks for the Washington Redskins were not
considered offensive. But these are different times. The United
States now has a black president. The nation, as older generations
pass and newer generations take power, is moving beyond race as an
issue. Professional victims must now work even harder to find racist
things to get worked up about.
The
professional victims teach and preach a shallow diversity that is
skin-color deep and intellectually homogenous. This is most easily
seen on college campuses that have appropriate and acceptable ratios
of gay, black, Hispanic, Asian, female and transgendered tenured
professors who all view the world through the same lens with the same
politics.
Take
the same view of diversity and package it around wealth and ideas
such as privilege. Suddenly a most pernicious creature is found. This
creature is guilt ridden in skinny jeans and convinced the best way
to remove the guilt of a privileged upbringing is to find those who
do not sufficiently appreciate their own privilege and punish them.
They typically have the power to do it, too...
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