Amazon this week removed shirts from its online marketplace that used a derogatory word to refer to California Senator Kamala Harris, the Democratic nominee for vice president, the company said on Wednesday.
The shirts have a fictitious campaign logo for Ms. Harris and Joseph R. Biden Jr., the Democratic presidential nominee, who referred to Ms. Harris with a slur associated with promiscuity.
“All sellers must follow our sales guidelines and those who do not will be subject to action, including potential termination of their account,” an Amazon spokeswoman said in an email. “These products have been removed.”
USA Today, which first reported on the move Amazon took, said one seller, The Oxygen Bandit, sold T-shirts, tank tops, hoodies and sweatshirts with the expression on its Amazon store.
As of Wednesday afternoon, the store had other products available, mocked Mr Biden, Mrs Harris and her campaign.
Ms. Harris, a former California Attorney General and former San Francisco attorney, is the first Black woman and the first candidate of Indian descent to be on the presidential map of a major party.
But since Mr. Biden announced Ms. Harris as his running mate last week, she has been forced to endure attacks on her heritage and gender. Last week, President Trump set up a racist conspiracy theory that is troubling among some of his followers: that Mrs. Harris was not eligible for the vice presidency as president because her parents were immigrants.
That assertion is false. Mrs. Harris is eligible to serve.
