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Amazon pulls Washington Redskins merchandise from its site amid calls for the team to change its name
CNBC ^ | July 8, 2020 | Annie Palmer

Posted on 07/08/2020 1:51:57 PM PDT by C19fan

Amazon is removing Washington Redskins merchandise from its site, after the NFL called on the team to change its name, widely considered a racial slur against Native Americans. In a note to sellers on Wednesday, Amazon said that it would pull a variety of products featuring the Washington team, including jerseys, t-shirts and jewelry. Sellers were given 48 hours to review and remove any products flagged by Amazon, the notice states.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; US: District of Columbia; US: Washington
KEYWORDS: amazon; censorship; districtofcolumbia; monopoly; redskins; washingtonredskins
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We have a monopoly power in online shopping using that power for a political end. I am sure the Chamber of Commerce GOP and many Freepers who think being pro-business and pro-free market are synonymous will say nothing.
1 posted on 07/08/2020 1:51:57 PM PDT by C19fan
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Amazon already caved under pressure not to allow people to purchase certain books.


2 posted on 07/08/2020 1:52:42 PM PDT by C19fan
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Wait, “Amazon”?

Isn’t that Cultural Appropriation from South American Indigenous peoples?

Waiting for Bezos to replace his name with something less offensive.


3 posted on 07/08/2020 1:54:46 PM PDT by Regulator
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Up here, people love Trump flags and huge Trump signs. Apparently, it’s to trigger snowflakes. Now I bet their Redskins apparel will be coming out


4 posted on 07/08/2020 1:56:08 PM PDT by AppyPappy (How many fingers am I holding up, Winston?)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
Apropos of nothing, sometimes I wish I could travel more.

5 posted on 07/08/2020 1:59:23 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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Okay.

I suggest they rename themselves the Washington Whiteskins. Then no one will be offended, right?


6 posted on 07/08/2020 2:03:18 PM PDT by Pravious
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We're talking foolsball, right?

Just last week Freepers were boycotting the Numbskull Fool's League because it enables American hating ghetto trash to get rich.

Now we're supposed to boycott Amazon because, why?

I absolutely could not care less about anything sports related.

I've got to have a score care to keep up with who our enemy du jour is.

7 posted on 07/08/2020 2:08:40 PM PDT by LouAvul (Put them in fear, O Lord: that the nations may know themselves to be but men. Psalms 9:20)
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I just checked. There are plenty of Washington Redskin items.


8 posted on 07/08/2020 2:09:02 PM PDT by Petrosius
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What about all the Nike /merchandise/clothing/shoes crap? All that garbage is made in slave labor factories. PULL IT!


9 posted on 07/08/2020 2:09:12 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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A Washington Post poll of Native Americans a few years back showed 90% either liked the name, or didn’t care one way or the other. It’s white liberals that are upset and they’re telling Native Americans to sit down, shut up and let white folks make the decision.


10 posted on 07/08/2020 2:09:28 PM PDT by Stevenc131
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they should go with the name DC Foreskins ..!


11 posted on 07/08/2020 2:09:48 PM PDT by ßuddaßudd ((>> M A G A << "What the hell kind of country is this if I can only hate a man if he's white?")
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Amazon acting like an Indian giver.


12 posted on 07/08/2020 2:11:21 PM PDT by Tommy Revolts
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Why the Redskins but not the blackhawks or Cleveland Indians or Atlanta Braves?

It’s like they only want one particular scalp...


13 posted on 07/08/2020 2:11:42 PM PDT by Skywise
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Already ordered some shirts a few days ago.

Allegedly they are on the way.

We’ll see....

They will likely be the last NFL items I ever purchase...


14 posted on 07/08/2020 2:16:24 PM PDT by rhinohunter (FAUCI MUST GO!!!)
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I’d vote to change the name of the team to The Rainbow Pansies. Now there’s a name that would instill fear even in a widdle bunny wabbit.


15 posted on 07/08/2020 2:23:49 PM PDT by attiladhun2
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Sucker


16 posted on 07/08/2020 2:23:54 PM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom Hi Dad)
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And yet,

https://www.amazon.com/Mein-Kampf/dp/0395925037/


17 posted on 07/08/2020 2:24:31 PM PDT by rightwingcrazy (;-,)
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👍
18 posted on 07/08/2020 2:33:09 PM PDT by eeriegeno
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Call them Washington Crackers. White people don’t get upset about insignificant things like this. Unless they’re BLM wiggers.


19 posted on 07/08/2020 2:35:34 PM PDT by Old Yeller (Eternal lives matter.)
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Since the GENERALS is taken (and too much for them to live up to), call them the PRIVATES.

Since female cheerleaders is too sexist for a neutered team, their mascot should be the SURRENDER MONKEY.


20 posted on 07/08/2020 2:44:54 PM PDT by RasterMaster ("Towering genius disdains a beaten path." - Abraham Lincoln)
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