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by d2ncal 3420 days ago
Being liberal doesn't mean that you block everything that the other side is doing. It's also about being open and accepting to others and their views. Shopify did the right thing here.
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Being liberal does not require accepting Nazis. I will defend their right to hold their views and say what they want, but they have no right to do business with a particular e-commerce site.
By comparing Breitbart with Nazi you're being incredibly disrespectful to the actual Nazi victims.
Their Shopify store includes a t-shirt with a fricken' parteiadler on it. I think the label is entirely justified.
Link? I found this [1], but the label suggests it's the US eagle instead...

[1] https://store.breitbart.com/collections/mens/products/e-plur...

I found this one, but basically the same:

https://store.breitbart.com/collections/all-products/product...

The US eagle has its wings going up, not straight sideways. And the head is pointed to the eagle's right, not the left. (This is also the difference between the reichsadler, which is a more generic symbol of Germany, and the parteiadler, which is a Nazi symbol: the riechsadler's head points to the eagle's right, while the parteiadler's head points left.)

Just compare:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Seal_of_the_United_State...

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Pa...

The one on the shirt is quite close to the second (minus the swastika) and quite distant from the first.

I think the shape is quite dissimilar to either (e.g. the Nazi one has legs and no tail). I wanted to agree with you on the head thing, but it seems that Nazis used both directions... I'm not sure I'd call the Reichsadler a "generic symbol of Germany" if it was used during the Third Reich...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coat_of_arms_of_Germany#Nazi_G...

Nobody has the obligation to help fundraise for hate speech.
Can you point to any examples of hate speech by Breitbart?
"If for no other reasons than manners and aesthetics, we ought to think about shoving the next generation [of gays] back into Narnia."

Yes, I know Milo is gay, doesn't mean this isn't advocating violence against a group of people, fitting most definitions of hate speech. I feel dirty linking to the article but you can google it for the source.

This [1] is a pretty tongue-in-cheek article (the quip about anal sex was particularly funny), but given that his main point seems to be that gays are smarter than average, so they should have more kids, I just cannot possibly interpret the above quote (or any other part of the article) as advocating violence...

[1] http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/06/17/gay-right...