Amazon row over 'rape' T-shirt

[Jazzy]

Internet retailer Amazon is continuing to sell clothes from a US firm despite a row over a T-shirt printed with the message: Keep calm and rape a lot.



On Friday, US company Solid Gold Bomb apologised for selling the T-shirt and removed it from sale, saying a listing was automatically generated in error.



At 12:00 GMT on Saturday, the firm had T-shirts with messages including keep calm and hit her on sale.



Amazon has yet to respond to a request for a comment.



The T-shirts are based on the World War II wartime propaganda slogan keep calm and carry on.



Among the 8,425 T-shirts still listed by the company on the Amazon site at 12:00 GMT on Saturday were those with the slogans keep calm and knife her and keep calm and grope a lot.



However, it has been reported that T-shirts with offensive messages are being progressively withdrawn from sale.



'Mellow-harsher'

The sale of the T-shirts has been criticised by former Labour deputy leader Lord Prescott, who said on Twitter: First Amazon avoids paying UK tax. Now they're make money from domestic violence.



Times journalist and author Caitlin Moran tweeted: Wow. Keep Calm & Hit Her T-shirts on Amazon. What a massive mellow-harsher.



In Friday's statement, Solid Gold Bomb said it had been informed of the fact that we were selling an offensive T-shirt primarily in the UK.



It added: This has been immediately deleted as it was and had been automatically generated using a scripted computer process running against hundreds of thousands of dictionary words.



Offensive items still on sale were certainly in the deletion queue and will be removed as soon as the processing is complete, the statement added.

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How did Amazon miss this and list these for sale?

 

[Sinon]

Meh it's a t-shirt. Amazon have plenty of offensive articles of clothing for sale. Type in any rude/swear and you'll find a ton. This isn't really any different.

 

[Evil Eye]

First Amazon avoids paying UK tax. Now they're make money from domestic violence.

Uhuh, bit of an overstatement that.

These shirts aren't exactly good taste, but yeah... they're just shirts.

How did Amazon miss this and list these for sale?

I really don't think they check every product they sell.