Amazon Taking Heat for Selling Doll With Racist Description
Amazon has removed a doll with a racist product description after causing outrage on social media. [...]
What the fu@k is this @amazon⁉️
Colored?
— Christopher 🇺🇸 Proud Dem (@cwebbonline) December 5, 2020
Dirty?#RacistDoll pic.twitter.com/o0PoLAzxi0
This is hardly the first time social media users have found an offensive product description listed by a seller on Amazon. In August, a British shoemaker was selling a brown shoe with its color described as "N— brown." Amazon told TMZ the product was removed. "All sellers must follow our selling guidelines and those who do not will be subject to action including potential removal of their account," the company said at the time. "The product in question is no longer available."
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Booooooo Amazon⚡️👎🏼 pic.twitter.com/ktwBX7OaCm
— Dazzla⚡ (@1Dazza1) December 5, 2020
In October, members of The Proud Boys, which is considered a hate group, tried to sell custom shirts with the phrases "stand back" and "stand by" after President Donald Trump made those comments during the first presidential debate. Amazon quickly removed the shirts. The company does not allow sellers to list items that "promote, incite, or glorify hate or violence towards any person or group. This includes products that contain violent or offensive material that has no historical significance," according to a statement on its site.
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prevnextI'm not surprised anymore and that's sad. It's only because of social media that they are being exposed. This is what WE have been dealing with for centuries. So basically because her hair is braided it's dirty? Nah... Shame on them!!!
— Patricia (@Patrici09633911) December 5, 2020
blah blah blah... you’re over it. it’s a third-party seller. nobody cares. stop stirring the pot.
— steve (@vegasknight) December 5, 2020
Some Twitter users disagreed on calling the doll's description racist. "I'm black and I don't see nothing racist about this," one person wrote.
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prevTranslators strike again! Can't tell u how many times I pissed someone off or got pissed off by using one 😂🤣. Listen. I think Amazon should monitor overseas vendors more because English is not their 1st language and they have 0 clue about the faux pas that they are making. 🤷🏾♀️
— Tricia Lorraine 🇨🇷🇺🇸🇯🇲 (@One_Sexy_Tica) December 5, 2020