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Activists Demand Amazon Stop Selling Trump Border Wall Costume
Heat Street ^ | 4-3-17 | Jillian Kay Melchior

Posted on 04/03/2017 6:04:07 PM PDT by dynachrome

It’s 211 days until Halloween, but online activists are already petitioning Amazon to remove a Donald Trump-themed costume they claim is racist.

For $20 or less, Amazon offers a nylon and spandex white onesie with a brick wall print and the words, “Mexico will pay!”

Over the past 10 days, more than 500 people have signed a petition calling for Amazon to stop selling the outfit.

“The ‘costume’ advertised on Amazon’s website promotes this despicable xenophobia and is nothing more than a modernized version of a Klu Klux Klan robe. … The Latinx community will not sit idly by as companies like Amazon help to further normalize white supremacy,” wrote Jerónimo Saldaña, who is affiliated with the activist group Mijente, and who created the petition.

By deadline, Amazon did not respond to Heat Street’s request for comment. Online, Amazon states that the company prohibits offensive products, including items that “promote or glorify hatred, violence, racial, sexual or religious intolerance.”

In the past year, Amazon has pulled a “sexy burka” costume, as well as a doormat with the word “Allah” on it.

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


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat; Humor; Society
KEYWORDS: amazon; border; costume; halloween; maga; magateachers; trump; wall
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special snowflakes at it again
1 posted on 04/03/2017 6:04:07 PM PDT by dynachrome
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To: dynachrome

When I don’t like something Amazon sells, I don’t buy it. Am I doing it wrong?


2 posted on 04/03/2017 6:05:54 PM PDT by Rastus
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To: dynachrome

Isn’t the border wall costume to make a mockery of the wall anyways? Don’t libs actually understand what is satire from their own side?


3 posted on 04/03/2017 6:06:12 PM PDT by Morpheus2009
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To: dynachrome

xenophobia...

I WIN LIBERAL MADE UP WORDS BINGO AGAIN!! :)


4 posted on 04/03/2017 6:07:00 PM PDT by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust cIonservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: Rastus
When I don’t like something Amazon sells, I don’t buy it. Am I doing it wrong?

Yes, you are. You're supposed to make a scene and get it taken off the market so no one can buy it. /S

5 posted on 04/03/2017 6:07:43 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: dynachrome
is nothing more than a modernized version of a Klu Klux Klan robe

So then Democrats are wearing it?

6 posted on 04/03/2017 6:10:25 PM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: dynachrome

I love this shirt...

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B06XP53BZX/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1491268175&sr=8-1&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_FMwebp_QL65&keywords=trump+lgbt


7 posted on 04/03/2017 6:10:34 PM PDT by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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To: dynachrome

Latinx = no credibility.


8 posted on 04/03/2017 6:12:33 PM PDT by bk1000 (A clear conscience is a sure sign of a poor memory)
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To: dynachrome

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Funny-Donald-Trump-Build-A-Wall-Mexico-Will-Pay-Zip-Up-Costume-Jumpsuit-/272374973716?var=&hash=item3f6ad04514:m:ma3vyuAkXZ3ymm9UETBI6Bg


9 posted on 04/03/2017 6:12:33 PM PDT by gaijin
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10 posted on 04/03/2017 6:14:17 PM PDT by Karl Spooner
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To: dynachrome

My costume just got 10 feet higher.


11 posted on 04/03/2017 6:14:22 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Abortion is what slavery was: immoral but not illegal. Not yet.)
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Good one.


12 posted on 04/03/2017 6:16:09 PM PDT by conservative98
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To: dynachrome

How do people even find this stuff?


13 posted on 04/03/2017 6:17:21 PM PDT by mylife (The roar of the masses could be farts)
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To: Morpheus2009

Libs have no sense of irony. Or humor.


14 posted on 04/03/2017 6:19:23 PM PDT by jazminerose (Adorable Deplorable)
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To: Rastus

Yes, you are wrong....you should DEMAND a safe space from ALL things you do NOT like.

It’s the Marxist way!


15 posted on 04/03/2017 6:23:59 PM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: dynachrome
A special good night to Snow Flakes across Amazon. Sleep well! President Trump will be there, watching over you!


16 posted on 04/03/2017 6:24:20 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (The Democrat Party is the action arm of the Establishment Media. Thanks to Mark Twain for this!)
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To: mylife

I became convinced, during the Obama years, that he had installed several rooms of computer geeks in the White House. Their sole raisin d’ etre was to scrub anything negative about him, to monitor Conservative websites and counter the Right, and to seek out anything that they could complain about in regards to political correctness. Some things that Obama said were really stupid, but you had a hard time finding the stupidity a week later. So, I suspect there are geeks now, living near his fortress in Kalorama, DC, seeking out ‘offensive’ products, so they can be eliminated.


17 posted on 04/03/2017 6:24:52 PM PDT by originalbuckeye ("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." - George Orwell)
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To: Jane Long

I will soon make sure Friedman and Krugman’s books are off of Amazon. Excellent!


18 posted on 04/03/2017 6:26:01 PM PDT by Rastus
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19 posted on 04/03/2017 6:27:10 PM PDT by Dogbert41 (Jerusalem is the city of The Great King! Forgive my misspelling when on my tablet)
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To: 2banana

I like that too.


20 posted on 04/03/2017 6:29:38 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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