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Etsy Bans All Redskins Items, Allows 456 Swastika Items

written by Jeanine Martin September 10, 2014

Etsy.com sells handmade craft and vintage items from thousands of small businesses.  Yesterday the Etsy blog posted  this statement, [read_more]

Our vision at Etsy is that business can be used for good, and that thinking about our impact on people and values can go hand in hand with thinking about profits. As we grow, our commitment to that vision remains at the core of our identity and is woven into the decisions we make in running our business, from the sourcing of our office supplies to the benefits we provide to our employees to what kind of content we allow to be sold through our website.

Today we seek to balance two principles that are critically important to us: freedom of speech and protection from discrimination. Freedom of speech and expression is important to us because we are a community of artists, artisans, and curators of all backgrounds, aesthetics, and viewpoints. If you search our site, you will see a wide variety of items testifying to our diversity and our seemingly limitless creativity.

This freedom, however, is not without limits. In the past, we have taken actions to protect our community and to preserve our integrity as both a creative and an ethical space. We want Etsy to be safe, welcoming, and respectful for everyone, including artists, women, and minorities. For this reason, it has long been against our policies to allow content on our site that demeans people based upon race, ethnicity, religion, gender, gender identity, disability, or sexual orientation.

You may have been following the struggle of one ethnic group that has made a lot of headlines lately: Native Americans and their fight against the Washington, D.C. professional football team name and mascot, which they have long considered offensive, disparaging, and racist. This very poignant ad was followed by a decision by the US Patent and Trademark Office to cancel the team’s trademarks. Following this decision, an increasing number of public figures, politicians, schools, news publications, and private companies have spoken out in protest of the name and mascot.

Like the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board, we at Etsy find the opinion of the minority group itself to carry most weight in determining whether the mascot is disparaging. In no uncertain terms, Native American groups have consistently advocated and litigated that the term “redskin(s)” is disparaging and damaging to Native Americans. Therefore, it will no longer be permitted in our marketplace.

 Etsy will no longer permit people to buy and sell Redskins items on their site but will allow the sale of items in Redskins’ colors and those items that pertain to Washington DC.  How very generous of them.

They are very concerned about the feelings of Native Americans but have no concern about the feelings of Jews and the majority of Americans who are offended by Nazi items.  Etsy currently offers 456 different items featuring swastikas., including 63 swastika pendants and necklaces.   So, I can’t buy a Redskins’ pendant on Etsy but I have my choice of swastika pendants.  Wonderful.  Political Correctness hypocrisy at its finest.  Needless to say, I will no longer visit the Etsy site or purchase any items sold on the site.

Etsy Bans All Redskins Items, Allows 456 Swastika Items was last modified: September 10th, 2014 by Jeanine Martin
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Jeanine Martin

Also known as Lovettsville Lady, I am a Republican activist in the wilds of western Loudoun County.

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