- Amazon has just donned a sexist T-shirt targeting Vice Presidential candidate Kamala Harris.
- “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 spokesman told Business Insider.
- Products linked to the Boogaloo Bois movement, the assassination of George Floyd, and the conspiracy QAnon have also generated controversy after they were reported on the e-commerce site in recent months.
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Amazon has unleashed a controversial T-shirt that was attacked by Democratic Vice Presidential candidate Kamala Harris after users of social media criticized the sexist and destructive message of the product.
The Daily Mail reported that the shirts in question were emblazoned with the phrase “Joe and the h–” in the upcoming November election in reference to presidential candidate Joe Biden and his running mate, Harris. Other clothing sold by third-party anti-Biden brands such as The Oxygen Bandit and Weisay contained similar items, priced at $ 17.99 and up.
“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 spokesman told Business Insider. “These products have been removed.”
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T-shirts targeting Harris are not the only brush of Amazon with merchandise-related political controversy of late. The ecommerce giant has attracted long-selling third-party vendors with right-hand views with contentious gear.
In July, Amazon appeared to remove patches and T-shirts linked to the far right Boogaloo Bois movement from its site. However, Business Insider discovered earlier this month that the e-commerce company had not removed all ads, including Hawaiian print shirts – the movement’s trademark uniform.
A racist children’s shirt depicting Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin kneeling on George Floyd’s neck was also cut off from the site in June. Meanwhile, products linked to QAnon’s far-reaching conspiracy theory have proliferated on Amazon, even after the move was linked to a series of violent incidents and other technology peers such as Facebook and Google.
Amazon’s current third-party sales policy states that items that “promote, encourage or glorify hate, violence, race, sexual or religious intolerance or promote organizations with such views” will be removed from the site.
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