i recently heard

that e-bay features

racist items

4 example, they

offer "the n--ger bible'

apparently, they

also offer many

more insulting

n--ger items


will they sale

their very soul

4 a profit?


ignorance is not bliss

They also sell "Gold Nigga" !!

This is disturbing news. However, the blame surely lies on that of the sellers of such items. I dont think its those working 4 ebay surely. As part of their trading standards such offensive material would be removed from the site.

I think they would. It's the American Dream.

I don't have anything against eBay allowing stuff like this to be sold. The real question is: why would someone buy it?

Think about it. Some scholars seek items like these out so they can study racist literature and teach students how to counter such material, and others seek this material out to understand the minds of racist zealots so as better to understand hate crimes, racist militias, and other forms of race-based violence. Others simply seek stuff like this out to remind themselves of the hatred that's out there.

It's less about the objects - it's more about the context in which the object is used.

Anxiety said:

i completly agree..

for example i recently bought a couple of nazi propaganda posters, not because i'm a rascist in the making or a neo nazi but because i'm writing a paper on nazi propaganda and the symbols they used.
i also found it intresting to know that you couldn't buy Hitlers "mein Kampf" in Europe along with other Nazi propaganda films...

i think it is vital you understand the past to be able to understand the futur and that means taking the good with the bad...
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