An online retail shop has taken down a shirt after a Twitter backlash which called out the anti-Semitic phrasing.
Online retailer “Zazzle” has been forced to remove a shirt with the slogan ‘at least I’m not Jewish’ written across the front from its store.
Zazzle is a company which allows users to design merchandise and sell customized items in its virtual store.
A spokesman for the site said they were not aware of the shirt until users pointed it out, have since removed it and banned user ‘The Slesk Bazaare’, who created it.
A statement by Zazzle said “We do not tolerate or accept hate on our site. As an open marketplace, we are faced with the opportunity to allow people to express their creativity and sentiments, coupled with the challenge of expression that upsets and offends. When a product is brought to our attention that violates our terms of service, such as the shirt referenced, we take swift action to have the product removed. Designers, including this designer, who promote or express hate on our site are removed from the marketplace and banned from subsequent participation.”
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Is it necessarily? A goy is eating pork, and so u don’t think he’s a yid oichel neveilos, he wears a shirt saying at least he’s not Jewish.
In my constitutionalist mind, free speech and boycotting are allowed.
1, does the Constitution instruct you to brush your teeth too? Do you think and not think, do and not do things every second of your life only according to what is written in the Constitution?
In any case, the Constitution allows people to protest irrational hate and businesses to ban haters.
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Free speech has little to do with acceptable business practices , free speech just means that the government can’t stop your speech but within freedom of speech society can request and expect for businesses to keep hate sweet from their sites. No one is stating that a person can’t make such a shirt legally.
I agree boycotting would logically be included in free speech. That however doesn’t mean that the government can’t decide not to do business with people involved in bds , not doing business with ( contracting ) is different than banning it.
I wonder what a goy would say if we had a T-shirt that said שלא עשני גוי..
You couldn’t post where you got it from
And when we say every morning shelo asani goy?
You can give 100 reasons why its not the same thing.but so can a goy when u ank him about his shirt. Its a 2 way street.
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Before I even had a chance to buy it.
Takes2, do you know how much anti-Semitism is in the Christian Bible and and there are plenty of anti-Semitic verses in the Koran and numerous non-Jews say anti-Semitic things every day. I don’t see anyone protesting these things.
But a Jew going around with a t-shirt with the caption “I thank God that he did not make me a non-Jew” would garner a lot of negative attention, obviously. Religion and current events are two different things.
For those of you who are talking about free speech, this is true unless the company has set rules which in this case Zazzle does. Below is a section from their content guidelines:
“The following content is not permitted at Zazzle:
No text or images that infringe on any intellectual property rights including, but not limited to copyrights, trademarks and rights of privacy/publicity
No text or images of obscenity, pornography or nudity that is not artistic in nature
No text or images that encourage or glorify drug use/abuse
No excessive violence
No content that is libelous or defamatory
No content that can reasonably be viewed as harassing, threatening, or otherwise harmful
No hate speech
No content that can reasonably be viewed as discriminatory based upon race, ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or disability
No content that violates or encourages anyone else to violate any law”