Amazon quickly pulled a line of products from a third-party seller bearing the slogans "Slavery gets shit done" and "Slavery makes shit happen," after the retailer was criticized by shoppers and advocacy groups for trivializing slavery - a practice which continues to this day especially in nations "liberated" by the US.
.@amazon how lovely is this? A little white boy with a highly insensitive and ignorant ‘Slavery Gets Shit Done’ bib on. Hmm.. did they pick the cotton right amazon? Or no? Gotta love 2018, what a great start. #Amazon #BOYCOTTAMAZON pic.twitter.com/DKKLFH4JKJ
— Grace Croft (@Queen___Grace) January 19, 2018
Charities Anti-Slavery International (ASI) and International Justice Mission (IJM) UK lodged formal complaints over the line of T-shirts, mugs, baby bibs, tote bags and other items carried by the Marketplace seller.
"Children the same age as those modelling the T-shirts will be forced to work long hours for no pay in desperate conditions where starvation, beatings and sleep deprivation are common," said David Westlake, chief executive of IJM UK.
Absolutely shocking t-shirts! - "Amazon under fire for selling 'Slavery makes sh*t happen' t-shirts for kids". Come on @amazon, you should do better to control what you sell
— Anti-Slavery International (@Anti_Slavery) January 22, 2018
https://t.co/BkJc8fNdFG
"If it is meant to be funny, it fails miserably," Jakub Sobik of Anti-Slavery International told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
A spokesman for Anti Slavery International told MailOnline:
"I understand this is meant to be a joke, but slavery is no joke for the 40 million people who are experiencing it right now, including here in Britain.
Slavery includes girls trafficked into prostitution or boys forced to work in sweatshops. They may be 'getting sh*t done' but I don't think they would find the t-shirt particularly funny."
There are an estimated 21 - 46 million slaves around the world today, subject to forced labor, sexual exploitation and domestic servitude. India has the highest actual number of slaves at an estimated 18.3 million people, however North Korea topping the list on a per-capita basis.
A spokesman for Amazon said: "All Marketplace sellers must follow our selling guidelines and those who don't will be subject to action including potential removal of their account," adding "The products in question are no longer available."
Comments
Well I think it's funny....
F'd up but funny. Sears may want to acquire the line to raise some short term cash.
In reply to Well I think it's funny.... by Peak Finance
Ha ha, get rekt niggers.
In reply to F'd up but funny. Sears may… by johngaltfla
Now awaiting for Amazon to remove all Feminist items, because "Feminism Wrecks Sh8t Up."
In reply to Ha ha, get rekt niggers. by Buckaroo Banzai
We all know Jeff Bezos is totally against slavery since he is now moving into hiring mostly automated robots
In reply to Now awaiting for Amazon to… by stizazz
... this logo/shirt is over 10 years old
In reply to We all know Jeff Bezos is… by YUNOSELL
considering they advertised only white babies/children wearing the items, a good chance the producers of this line of clothing were promoting white child trafficking.
In reply to Ha ha, get rekt niggers. by Buckaroo Banzai
Darn, I'd order one of those bibs.
In reply to Well I think it's funny.... by Peak Finance
He’s a bit young. I’m not sure he’d get much done
In reply to Well I think it's funny.... by Peak Finance
Fuck Amazon, their workforce is pretty much near slave level.
Robot slaves?
In reply to Fuck Amazon by BarkingCat
(Robot voice) Au-tom-a-tons-of-the-world-un-ite! Buzz, click You-have-no-thing-to-lose-but-your-um-bil-ic-als!!
Robot socialsm in 3...2...1...
In reply to Robot slaves? by Bobbyrib
You no pay attention? Amazon would rather have ambulances on call outside their doors than provide an adequate work environment.
That would have been a funny T. Slavery and a picture of an Amazon warehouse.
In reply to Robot slaves? by Bobbyrib
Censorship at play. I would expect that from a obama person. Not a capitalistic conglomerate.
Right, slaves were given a HOUSE, LAND, MONEY, FOOD and a FULLTIME job.
Today, you get nothing.
The we have this gem
https://www.google.com/amp/s/articles.masslive.com/politics/index.ssf/2…
Dotard vs. Dotard
In reply to The we have this gem… by Bill of Rights
Pyramids weren't built by slaves
Our overlords were alien.
We are alien.
We are the slaves.
Weeeeeeee won. Aren't you glad?
In reply to Pyramids weren't built by… by Catalonia
It's Al Ways some unforeseen factor that pops the bubble...
Unless you believe in "Manifest Destiny "?
That would have sold out had most ZHers known you could buy clothing that compliments slavery.
I would buy that tote, pack my P226 and a bunch of mags in it and ride the Red Line for awhile
In reply to That would have sold out had… by Bobbyrib
Yeah, just ask the US govt and MIC how much you can accomplish with 100 million wage slaves!
Next century they will say,
how aweful being an employee-worker was, worse than a slave as the robots perform all labor. They will look down on the past as wrong for people to do anything themselves without holding mommys tit.
Those poor people in 2000 didnt have anything, they would work and sleep outside and had nothing in the end. Poor saps.
Baby's First Pyramid Symbolism...
Just think how funnier it would have been with black children. Now, that would have been a show stopper!
For blacks it would read:
Slavery-My Lotto Ticket Outta Africa
In reply to Just think how funnier it… by CHoward
For blacks it would read:
Slavery-My Lotto Ticket Outta Africa
In reply to Just think how funnier it… by CHoward
talk about cognitive dissonance. if you collect a paycheck with someone elses' name on the signature line you are a slave.
Cue Twitterstorm full of no-skin-in-the -game virtue signaling.
And the graphic is of the pyramids. So who exactly should be triggered by this? Hittites?
Tylers, market them to the ZH'ers.
It's not even true. Frederick Law Olmstead travelled 20,000 miles through the south in the 1850s doing a survey of conditions in slave states. He found slave labor was 3X or 4X more costly than free labor because slaves don't get things done. As a farmer in New York state who employed farm laborers he was a good judge of costs and efficiency and what he saw in the south indicated the slave system was very expensive, and produced inferior results for all but a small handful of slave owners (the 1% of that time).
So, some 150 plus years later and the work ethic of some people has not changed.
Color me surprised.
In reply to It's not even true… by armageddon addahere
I want one.
I don't know about on Amazon but if you really want one the people who first came out with this slavery design was tshirthell dot com about 20 years ago. I'm sure its still a bestseller and its still available there. They have a bunch of other great designs too.
In reply to I want one. by DEMIZEN
Well, I thought it was funny.
Lock me up.
Gets it done at Walmart, that's American style.
What's funny is a jester laughing about his own predicament. Kind of like Americans laughing about slavery all the while they're enslaved. That's the joke and punchline, that's what's funny.
In reply to Gets it done at Walmart,… by Herdee
Slavery does get shit done. Look at all the dope American slaves of the 20th Century. Living in all their "Little Pink Houses. Back in the U.S back in the U.S back in the USSR."
bezosabub forgot the pizza logo.
Honesty, and transparency brings out moral outrage? Even the Amish buy shit from China
I can laugh at it even though 1.2 million of 'my people' were enslaved in Africa (Barbary slave trade). Get over it.