Hate propaganda marketed for kids is sold through the online retailer, researchers found, and they’ve so far dodged censors.
By Kelly Weill
Despite its own policies against hateful content, Amazon still sells racist products—some of them marketed at children, a new study finds.
Baby
onesies featuring a burning cross, swastika necklaces, and “costumes”
depicting a black man being lynched have all found a recent home on Amazon, according to a new study
by the Action Center on Race and the Economy and the Partnership for
Working Families. The study also found a trove of white supremacist
literature that has been created on Amazon’s publishing platform. Those
products lingered on the site despite Amazon’s policy prohibiting
“products that promote or glorify hatred, violence, racial, sexual or
religious intolerance or promote organizations with such views,” the company states on its website.
Amazon,
which takes a cut of sales, often doesn’t take action against the
products unless facing public backlash, the study found. While some of
the products cited in the study have since been removed from Amazon,
others remain for sale on the site.
“Third party sellers who use
our Marketplace service must follow our guidelines and those who don’t
are subject to swift action including potential removal of their
account,” an Amazon spokesperson told The Daily Beast of the study.
Retailers aren’t exactly hiding their Nazi products. A “leather WWII
German Waffen SS” replica hat was allowed on the site, despite it being
modeled after Nazi uniforms, the study found. The same goes for a
swastika necklace, Nazi swords, and paraphernalia with the “Totenkopf,” a
Nazi skull logo that has since been adopted by violent neo-Nazi groups.
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Source: The Daily Beast
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