The Issue: Oregon’s ban on the use of American Indian imagery in public schools’ mascots and symbols.

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This nonsense has gone on too long and is beyond ridiculous (“Oregon’s PC ‘Warriors,’” Editorial, May 26).

Schools choose sports nicknames they deem heroic, noble and valiant. They don’t choose names they consider demeaning.

Those names are valuable trademarks in which they invest huge amounts of money to advertise and promote. To arbitrarily demand those trademark owners give them up without compensation because of distorted PC sensibilities is absurd and ignores the fact that they are valuable private property.

J. Santora

Manhattan

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The Post is missing the point in “Oregon’s PC ‘Warriors.’”

The leftist radicals who run Oregon’s Education Department aren’t really concerned about demeaning stereotypes, but rather about dominating every aspect of the lives of the people in their state.

It’s not a mystery why the far left is opposed to using such names as “warriors” for school teams. It’s not opposed to demeaning stereotypes — like that the rich have made their money by stealing from the poor — as much as they’re opposed to language and words that they don’t fully approve of.

The left is, step by step taking control of the language, and in doing so is succeeding in taking control of the lives of the rest of us.

Steve Heitner

Port Jefferson Station