By Selwyn Duke

It was just three years ago that a SCOTUS ruling restored the Washington Redskins’ trademark protection, after it was revoked in 2014 under the Lanham Act’s “Disparagement Clause.” The court couldn’t provide cultural protection, however. And now, the “woke” mob has accomplished what the law couldn’t do: Compel the football team to drop its 88-year-old name and its logo, which it officially did on Monday (press release below).

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— Washington Redskins (@Redskins) July 13, 2020

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Interestingly, No-longer-Redskins owner Dan Snyder had vowed in 2013, “We’ll never change the name,” as USA Today reported at the time. “It’s that simple. NEVER — you can use caps.”

Yes, well, we didn’t know he meant CAPitulation and CAPriciousness. 

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