Amazon has marketed a T-shirt flocked with a yellow star and the mention – Amazon
- Amazon created the controversy by marketing a T-shirt bearing a Star of David and the mention “unvaccinated”, in reference to the treatment of Jews during World War II.
- Faced with the scale of criticism, and thanks to reports from Internet users, the online sales giant deleted the ad in the hours that followed. The latter was the work of a third-party seller, invokes Amazon France.
- Comparing the treatment of unvaccinated people in society to that of Jews in WWII has become a habit of conspiracy and anti-vaccination movements around the world to denounce a “health dictatorship.”
The conspirators dreamed of it, Amazon did it. The online sales giant created controversy on Sunday, May 30, after Seamus Buckley, one of the creators of Microsoft’s first Xbox,
found on Twitter that the platform marketed a t-shirt flocked with a yellow star and the words “non-vaccinated” (“not vaccinated”).
A reference in the worst taste to the compulsory wearing of the yellow star for Jews during the Second World War, very popular within the conspiracy and anti-tax movements. One community clearly seems to be aiming for the T-shirt described in the caption as ideal “for anti-tax people, medical freedom activists and freedom lovers.” “
Here’s the link: https://t.co/rMsMYP1iPs
– Seamus Blackley (@SeamusBlackley) May 30, 2021
The ad has been withdrawn from sale
In an inflammatory tweet sent to his 65,000 followers, the American video game designer Seamus Buckley called out to Amazon, before threatening them never to use their services again if the product was not withdrawn from sale within 24 hours. The claim, also made by many Internet users who reported the mass advertisement, was finally heard by Amazon, which withdrew the T-shirt from sale a few hours later (saved by a user on the site “archive. org “, it is always visible here).
Amazon hosts many resellers and other brands on its platform, over which it does not necessarily have direct control. This T-shirt, available in several sizes and colors, was, contrary to what BFMTV had initially announced, sold by an independent seller. “It is not because it is written that the product was ‘sold and shipped by Amazon’, that it is not the work of a third party seller,” argued the press service of Amazon France has 20 minutes. According to the same source, the seller put his product on sale thanks to “Merch by Amazon”, a platform for the creation and sale of the brand’s online T-shirts.
In its regulations, Amazon formally prohibits its sellers from offering “products which promote, glorify or incite hatred, violence, racial, sexual or religious intolerance, or which highlight organizations adopting such ideologies. “. The press service added that “all sellers are required to follow [leurs] sales policies and that those who violate them will be subject to appropriate action up to the potential deletion of their account ”. Upon publication of the article, Amazon France is unable to say whether the third-party seller in question has had his account deleted.
Vaccination and yellow star, a conspiracy classic
Comparing the treatment of unvaccinated people in society to that of Jews in WWII has become a sad classic of conspiracy and anti-vaccination movements around the world. In the United States, the elected Republican Marjorie Taylor-Green allowed himself last week to compare the vaccine passport to the yellow star. Words strongly condemned by Republican elected officials in the House and Senate, but which seem to hit the mark with the QAnon community, to which Marjorie Taylor-Green has repeatedly claimed to be very close before being elected to Congress.
Vaccinated employees get a vaccination logo just like the Nazi’s forced Jewish people to wear a gold star.
Vaccine passports & mask mandates create discrimination against unvaxxed people who trust their immune systems to a virus that is 99% survivable.https://t.co/6X6VNolcA7
– Marjorie Taylor Greene 🇺🇸 (@mtgreenee) May 25, 2021
In France, Les DéQodeurs, an influential French QAnon channel, regularly use this gloomy comparison to denounce “a health dictatorship”. A staunch relativism still recently tested by the comedian Jean-Marie Bigard who, in the howls which are peculiar to him, also compared his vaccine passport and yellow star to the microphone of Russia Today.