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AMAZON PROFITS OFF OF HATE; BOYCOTT THEM
I just found out Amazon has been selling hateful products that denigrate and vilify marginalized communities. They are a multi-billion USD corporation and yet have made no real efforts to curb the push for the sale bigoted material.
Here is some of the hateful stuff Amazon is willingly allowing on their platform:
Amazon.com : Heterosexuals Flag 3x5 Ft Outdoor Indoor Garage With Grommets Dormitory Farmhouse Decoration Sign : Patio, Lawn & Garden
Amazon.com : 4Less Co 18x12 Inch All Lives Matter Yard Sign with Stake kb1s : Patio, Lawn & Garden
Amazon.com : 4Less Co 18x12 Inch Back The Blue Yard Sign with Stake kb1s : Patio, Lawn & Garden
Amazon.com: Straight - Proud - Heterosexual Male T-Shirt : Clothing, Shoes & Jewelry
Aryanity: Forbidden History of the Aryan Race: Starfire, Orion: 9781543141559: Amazon.com: Books
How do we boycott a large corporation? Here's some of the stuff you can do:
Share this post and spread awareness on various social media platforms. Try to get high-profile social accounts to publicly shame Amazon and inform others how they can boycott Amazon.
Avoid making purchases from Amazon, cancel subscriptions, and avoid indirect support of Amazon. A minor inconvenience is always better than supporting a corporation monetizing bigotry.
Inform your boycott reasons to Amazon (e.g. email, letter, or call out on public forum).
On Amazon customer services page: Help & Contact Us - Amazon Customer Service Go to the live chatbot and type “Talk to a representative” into the live chat system.
Amazon Phone Number Customer Service: 1-888-280-4331
Amazon Twitter: (16) Amazon (@amazon) / X (twitter.com)
Amazon Tik Tok: Amazon (@amazon) Official | TikTok
Amazon Pinterest: amazon - Profile | Pinterest
Amazon Instagram: Amazon (@amazon) • Instagram photos and videos
Create and support grassroot movements to address this issue.
Alert human-rights organizations of that will hold Amazon socially accountable and advocate for change. Some human-rights organizations you could get in contact with:
GLAAD: Join GLAAD in the fight to end hate | GLAAD
Black Lives Matter: Contact - Black Lives Matter
Simon Wiesenthal Center: Location and Contact Information (wiesenthal.com)
Some more information:
How to Boycott - Americans of Conscience
How to Start a Grassroots Movement (campaignnow.com)
I want my blog to be mostly positive and mostly witchy, but given the state of things, I feel I need to share some things because I am angry. Just know, I say these things as they are what I witnessed and grew up being around. Growing up, my (step)family and I were Catholics. I'm not obviously anymore but they still are. We lived in rural Kansas where there was more livestock than people.
These people wouldn't know kindness if it bit them in the ass. When my mom and step dad got married, I was informed and reminded repeatedly that I would never be a real sister, cousin, and I wasn't a part of the family. Mental health issues were a sign of weakness, and I was bullied by peers and adults alike for being too sensitive. Bullying was an everyday occurrence, and I really struck a nerve when I found their mother's suicide note, it was four pages. I read it. Being only 13 years old, I understood
They were also racist, so racist one of my sisters got caught kissing a guy that was not white, I remember a lot of yelling being involved, maybe more but not 100% sure. Throughout this weird Catholic community we also had a lot of Latino people. At school, my peers weren't allowed to speak Spanish, even at recess it was always met with "We speak English here!" I was there at the beginning of the whole "Mexicans are taking our jobs!" In our dating years, we didn't dare bring anybody home that wasn't white.
Being LGBT...um..."Not the way God intended." Is the kindest way to say how it wasn't welcomed. This was met with insults, hate, and biblical rhetoric. And threatened to be disowned if we were.
It's also very much a Pro-life area, growing up during the Summer every other Sunday afternoon all us little chickens and some older chickens would flock to the highway with some Pro-life signs from the church basement and stand along the highway with our signs for a couple of hours.
These people cannot be reasoned with, they refuse to even remotely listen. This mindset has been ingrained in people's brains. Even in my town now, there is still hate. A town maybe 30 minutes away was KKK headquarters for my area. If you aren't straight and white, it's tough.
I'm angry and scared, but I refuse to be dragged back into that pit which I dug out from. I will fight as I did before. I'm bisexual, pro-choice, and I love everyone. We are humans, we all bleed red, and we all deserve love and respect. The sun can warm, but it can also scortch and burn, and I will do my best to help comfort those who suffer.
What “every white person is racist” means
Everytime I see a post of “you can’t be white and not be racist” or something along those lines, there’s always a white person jumping in saying “i’m white and i’m not racist, you saying that is racist” and here’s the thing:
YES. In the USA specifically you cannot be white and not be racist. Why? Because in USA history white people have opressed black people and they have built a system in which they are benefited from their status as white folk.
So you may not consider yourself racist, and maybe you’re not, in the sense that you’re not hateful, or pro-salvery or part of the KKK - but you benefit from the systematic racism in your country. If you don’t recognize your privilege and actively try to deconstruct that system that benefits you while giving black folks the shorthand you are being racist cause you’re enabling that systematic racism - and because if you’re aware that you benefit from it and you don’t want to tackle it and deconstruct it is because you don’t want to lose that privilege. So, yes, it is racist. That makes you racist.
Plus, segregation was “abolished” in 1954 - 66 years ago, your grandparents and your parents were alive and learned the segregation way, you probably have been subconciously taught racism while you grow. Maybe little comments here and there, maybe you’ve been taught to not trust a black person when they come to your home, or you have been taught to lock your car doors when you’re inside and a black person passes by. Keep in mind these arent taught in a verbal way, this are little reaction-habits that are learned subconciously. So yeah, you are most probaly racist in one way or another. The same way all men are sexist, one way or another.
My dad for example, he doesn’t consider himself sexist, and most people wouldn’t either, he isn’t violent, or actively treats women as a lesser kind BUT every time we talk about celebrities his only focus is on the physical attraction of the female celebrities, ive hear him say many times “she’s not pretty enough to play that role”, while his focus on the male ones are about talents and scores and awards and stuff. Those are sexist comments, that is a very sexist pov to look at celebs, so yes, he is sexist.
THIS is what people need to understand, being racist, sexist, lgbtqphobe doesnt always present itself in an ugly oppressive agressive “im better than you and you dont deserve human rights” kind of way, sometimes its subtler and unintentional, and that’s where its dangerous cause most of this people really think they arent like that and when it gets pointed out they get defensive. They take pride in something they think they are, but arent willing to listen and grow.
My issue with Camila's apology is that 6 years ago in 2013 a website published screenshots of her calling Normani the n-word and of problematic/racist stuff she published on her 1D stan account and she "apologized" in a tweet BUT months later she did it again and the same website called her out, this time she called Dinah Jane “ghetto fabulous,” called Barack Obama the n-word on her 1D account, and new screenshots of her calling Normani the n-word in a casual text conversation surfaced, plus this tweet:
Now, let's look at the "apology" back then:
Let's look at yesterday's apology about her tumblr posts:
Notice something? It's basically the same thing, but longer.
I think cancel culture has gotten out of control as people have both the ability and the right to grow, learn and change, and cancel culture does not allow that, but what irks me is that Camila's apology doesn't read as genuine because as you can see she repeated the same excuse disguised as an apology that she used 6 years ago and back then it wasn't long until she went back to her, and I quote, "immature and ignorant behaviour".
It’s not that Camila is necessarily a bad person or that she definitely hasn’t learned anything from her past mistakes, but as an increasingly-famous public figure, she has a responsibility to publicly acknowledge why her actions were inherently wrong and to give her fans more than an excuse. And given that she apologized shallowly before she needs to show she means it, that this is not another half-ass apology like in 2013.
Camila's albums are good and I'd like for her to show the growing she likes to talk about so much.