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Nike Removes Redskins Gear from Website
breitbart.com ^ | 7/3/2020 | Dyland Gwinn

Posted on 07/03/2020 9:14:01 AM PDT by rktman

Nike, in an apparent bid to force the Washington Redskins to change their name, has removed all Redskins gear from its website.

Moreover, the vertical drop-down menu on the left side of the screen, which displays the names of all 32 NFL teams, does not show the Washington Redskins.

“Last year, Nike omitted the team name from its annual Salute to Service collection,” according to Pro Football Talk. “The more recent action sends a much stronger message.”

Despite Nike’s apparent new-found problem in doing business with the Redskins. The athletic apparel giant does not appear to have any problem maintaining ties to regimes that use slave labor.

In March of this year, a non-partisan Australian think tank revealed that Nike was one of 83 corporations to maintain “active ties” to factories in China that are believed to use Muslim slave labor.

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Philosophy
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Chinese slaves make nike shoes ... this organization is ripe for a ‘big time’ exposure.
61 posted on 07/04/2020 11:40:03 AM PDT by Just mythoughts (Psalm 2. Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?)
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