Saturday, March 2, 2013

Amazon pulls t-shirts promoting rape and violence that seller claims were auto-generated

KEEP CALM AND KNIFE HER

"Keep Calm and Rape a Lot" is one of hundreds of t-shirts based on the much-used "Keep Calm and Carry On" World War II propaganda poster that a Massachusetts-based company offered for sale on Amazon until today. The manufacturer, Solid Gold Bomb, removed the shirt and numerous other offensive iterations of the phrase after a receiving a flurry of tweets and complaints. The shirts were primarily sold on Amazon UK, which has now removed insensitive versions of the garment.


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