Sunday, July 23, 2017

trademark "nigger"

Just in time for a Trump presidency:
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A small group of companies and individuals are looking to register racially charged words and symbols for their products, including the N-word and a swastika, based on a U.S. Supreme Court decision on trademarks last month.
    At least nine such applications have been filed with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) since the unanimous June 19 ruling throwing out a federal law prohibiting disparaging trademarks. All are pending.
 The word "dolt" regains power in my mind ... a cultural dolt brigade. Glorifying unkindness and stupidity is unkind and stupid and that's just for starters. If there are those who insist on being stupid, how can they simultaneously claim to deserve a job?

1 comment:

  1. Oh well. The law really can't stop stupidity or cruelty. A renaissance ends, and a dark age begins.

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