Is Amazon Part of the Problem or Part of the Solution
Although Jeff Bezos donated $10M toward 'the cause' - it didn't keep one of his California warehouses from being burned down, so I guess he's taken another route. Even though you cannot buy the Oscar winning move Gone With the Wind from Amazon, you can, indeed, by a DVD entitled All Cops are Bastards (ACAB). You can buy police-hate t-shirts, decals, bumper stickers, ACAB merchandise of all kinds, Blue Lives Murder t-shirts, etc. And of course, Black Lives Matter merchandise ad nauseum. I have called and complained and also written an email to him, saying he should donate ANY amount to a police organization that supports families of officers killed in the line of duty since he is profiting off of hate merchandise aimed directly at police officers.
What do you think his response would be if one tried to sell something along the lines of All Blacks are Criminals or something else as equally obnoxious? Do you think hate merchandise is appropriate when people from both sides of the equation are dying? Do you think that is just free speech in action? Or does it fall into the 'fire in a theater' realm?
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