Here we have two articles concerning the same story, both of which involved a company offering T-shirts which appear to be promoting domestic abuse. No no! That's not good.
Amazon in the UK, having received criticism from customers pointing out offensive T-shirts with slogans promoting domestic abuse, continued to sell the T-shirts for several more hours from the merchant Solid Gold Bomb.
The offensive slogans, to name a few, were "Keep Calm and Rape Her", "Keep Calm and Knife Her" and others as based on England's famous World War II slogan of "Keep Calm and Carry On". When Solid Gold Bomb was questioned about these slogans they indicated they were the result of an errant automated process which creates content for T-shirts. Word substitution inadvertently generated slogans promoting violence against women. Yeah, oops.
Let's hope Solid Gold Bomb fixes their automated word substitution process. This is not good.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/02/amazon-removes-keep-calm-rape-t-shirt_n_2798682.html?utm_hp_ref=business
Updated 03/25/2013: Another article on the subject. This has been very hot subject.
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