Online Retailer Removes Auschwitz T-Shirts After ADL Voices Concern

[oberliner]

NEW YORK, Dec. 4 /U.S. Newswire/ -- An online retailer has removed novelty t-shirts bearing the message, "My grandparents went to Auschwitz ... and all I got was this lousy t-shirt" after being notified of concerns by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL). CafePress.com has removed pages advertising the "Auschwitz Souvenir T-Shirt" and several other shirts bearing similarly offensive messages and imagery associated with the former Nazi death camp.

"It is incomprehensible to us why anyone would create a t- shirt that makes light of the mass murder carried out at a former Nazi concentration camp," said Abraham H. Foxman, ADL national director. "While we understand the genre of novelty shirts, we also believe that retailers bear a responsibility to ensure that their products do not cross the line into causing offense or pain to others, or trivialize important and serious subjects like the Holocaust. We are gratified that CafePress.com has acted responsibly and removed these shirts from their Web site."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/usnw/20061204/pl_usnw/online_retailer_removes_auschwitz_t_shirts_after_adl_voices_concern141_xml

[ncrainbowgrrl]

1. Holy crap- those t-shirt designers have no human decency.

:wtf:

[TheCowsCameHome]

2. They must be republican entrepeneurs, You know, the type Rush praises

as being the backbone of American business.

[bullwinkle428]

3. Does this mean Rush has to remove them from his website?

After all, he brought us the whole "Club Gitmo" line of loungewear... (insert not-overly-sarcastic smiley)

[Kiouni]

4. let them sell it

that way i can pin-point who in a crowd needs a beating