Amazon Customers Sign Letter To Jeff Bezos To Dump Donald Trump (thestreet.com)

An anonymous reader writes: More than 13,000 Amazon customers (including upwards of 5,000 Amazon Prime subscribers), have signed a letter to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos calling for the company to stop selling Trump's line of menswear. UltraViolet Action is the organization hosting the petition, which calls for Amazon to "stop profiting off of [Trump's] brand of hate." The letter reads: "Donald Trump has consistently lobbed racist, sexist, and xenophobic attacks against entire groups of people, encouraged violence and vitriol against his political enemies and perpetuated a culture of violence against women. Amazon.com should want to distance themselves from this hateful rhetoric, but instead, they're profiting off his brand," explained Karin Roland, Chief Campaigns Officer at UltraViolet, in a statement. "Jeff Bezos needs to listen to his customers and ensure that Amazon doesn't profit off of Trump hate, and take immediate steps to dump Trump." If Amazon does take action, they wouldn't be the first. Macy's stopped carrying Trump's products last summer, and Univision and NBC cut ties with Trump over his statements as well.

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Re:Valid Action

[Idou]

Expressing the desire to do something (ban Mexicans and Muslims, in this example) is not the same as doing it.

Expressing the desire to not shop at Amazon again until they drop the Trump brand is not the SAME as doing it. . .

an attempt to exert control over others and -that- is an act of intolerance.

So Trump attempting to ban minorities by seeking the highest office of the free world and riling up mobs until they start beating up said minorities = "He has a right to speak!"
Me attempting from the quiet solitude of my home to express my intention to not to purchase anymore items from Amazon until they drop the Trump brand = "You are being intolerant!"

You may not be supporting Trump, but you see seem to be inflicted by the same deficiencies of rational thought. . .

Let him talk.

Right. . . because trying to get Amazon to drop his brand is somehow preventing him from talking!? This is Insightful!? Slashdot is becoming a lost cause. . .

Did I ever say Trump does not have the right to do any of the stuff he is doing? I am simply expressing my right to do everything legally in my power to purge the kind of festering stupidity he represents and cultivates.