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Swastika , Buddhism and idiots on zazzle
Today Zazzle is going to pull one of my designs because it sports the Swastika.
The Buddhist one, not the Nazi one.
This is what I had in my email this morning. To say I’m pissed doesn’t really express it nearly well enough.
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Here’s my reply and I tried to stay as polite as I could.
Honestly, I am shaking right now and would love to strangle someone.
Hello,
the design you are pulling is a Photograph of a Buddhist temple in Korea.
The Swastika you see there is a symbol of Good Luck and can be seen everywhere in Asia.
You can even see it in the US.I would suggest that you please read up on the differences between the Nazi Swastika and the one that is used in this picture.
You can do so on my Site where I explained some differences a while back:
http://nicoleb.org/b2/index.php/think
or simply use wiki for that.I would highly appreciate if you would leave my design where it is or suggest to you that you pull all designs with a cross, because they offend me.
Best regards,
Nicole
Update:
They already DID pull all my products that had the Swastika on them.
About 30 at least.
Thanks, Zazzle. It will be a pleasure to make more business with idiots that are too stupid to make a difference between religious symbols and banned symbols!
Btw. this is the temple and sign in question:
And the discussion over in the zazzle forum, in case someone wants to take a peek > Forum <
I bet it will be deleted by tomorrow morning anyway.
Update:
Last week I sent an email to zazzle support instead of content review
Customer (Nicole) 05/16/2009 10:43 AM
Hello,
since I have not gotten a reply to the attached email by your content review team, I forward this email to the support team.
Can you please explain to me, why my products were pulled?!
Best regards, Nicole
and today, 20th of May I got this message back:
Now, that’s nice enough. But do I really want to go through making all these products again only to have one smart brain delete them again in a year from now?!Dear Nicole,
Thank you for your email.
Based on your representations, we would be happy to have your design in our marketplace. Feel free to re-submit your design. We apologize for any inconvenience.
Best Regards,
Erik
Content Management Team
Zazzle.com, Inc.
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Firecrackinmama, they finally have found the products with the real Swastika on them and simply just removed everuything tagged "Swastika"
!Dan, it took me quite a bit not to ghet nasty - especially after I saw AFTER I sent the email, that my stuff was already deleted.
It is just an example.
It could offend millions of people, including the Jews and Muslims.
In the name of the cross (God) millions of people were killed during the crusades and during the witch hunts.
@April
Dummheit kennt keine Grenzen....!
your letter ...awesome but obviously falling on deaf ears but super glad you sent it to them and defended your position.
Most anyone that has any inclination to learn about their world would be willing to understand that the Swastika is a very ancient symbol used for thousands of years before the Nazi's created their monster
Just keep doing what your doing.... Stay amazing!
Here's a link to the forum at zazzle, in case someone wants to read the replies there (before someone deletes the thread...)
http://forum.zazzle.com/misc/whos_working_in_the_content_review_department
My brain is fried since yesterday morning, so I don't get things from time to time.
That thread on the zazzle forum is still up, oh wonder, they even left my picture there.
They only deleted one comment, goodness knows why, none of mine, a harmless one from a fellow zazzler.
Weirdness rules!
I see me posting them anew and they get deleted again in a year
Most cases are copyright issues.
Someone complains, zazzle, checks and if doubt they remove stuff.
They should have a buffer zone for this stuff.
Oh well, maybe they will change it in my Lifetime. Sometimes they work on some good changes and surprise us with a goodie.....
looks very interesting!
bookmarked your blog.
john brightman
"Mrs. Hitler
Run Jew, Run."
remained until I contacted the ADL.
This sign is NOT a Nazi sign. Period.
And that's my point
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