An early action alert

[valarltd]

This item is being sold on Ebay.

If you have an Ebay account, you can report it as offensive and/or hateful, and hopefully get this item pulled (and maybe the store, too, which sells other, equally offensive stickers).

Go to Ebay and sign in. Enter the following in the search box exactly as written.

seperation gays rights

Then, when it says 0 items found but shows you the store (and the item, too), click on it, let it come up, and scroll all the way to the bottom of the screen. Click the "Report this item" link. You'll be able to select Prohibited or Banned Items, and select that it is hateful, discriminatory, or racist — we used the "listing contains hateful, discriminatory, or racist language" subject selection. Then send the complaint to Ebay. It'll automatically have the subject and item number — all you need to do is click.

So that haters can't buy the item directly from here, I'm not posting a link.

(yanked from charlesks and riverheart

Comments

[shullie.livejournal.com]

have done and will post on my lj too.

[mirabella]

Done. What a fuckwit.

[janedavitt.livejournal.com]

Done and hopefully dusted.

[(Anonymous)]

I would almost want it to stay, just so we could enforce the idea that bigot=moron, since they don't know how to spell "separation" correctly. But the complaint has been made.

[timewalker.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that was me. I was logged in when I hit "reply", but was somehow logged out by the time I hit "post comment".

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

I made it. First I logged in the Italian site and found the object but not the Report this item link, then I logged in the USA site and found it. So I discover that in Italy we haven't a report policy... awful...

[reannon.livejournal.com]

Done, and while you're at it, check out the other bumper stickers the seller is spewing. There are at least two that also are violations of the eBay hate-speech policy, such as the one that actually uses the word "fags." This asshole needs to go. He can set up his own webreich to spew this garbage.

[gblvr.livejournal.com]

I reported this one, and one of the others (The Democrat's Motto) -- we'll just have to wait and see, eh?

[eyeless-angel.livejournal.com]

Can't see it at work, but will check it out and report when I get home.

[valarltd.livejournal.com]

Speaking only for myself, "separate" is one of my spelling bugaboos. And I'm a writer with a 50K word vocabulary!

I didn't even catch that it was misspelled until someone pointed it out. So no, it doesn't reinforce bigot=moron.

[serenaluvsron.livejournal.com]

don't have an ebay account, or a checking account so i can't do this, but it makes me so mad that people are so ignorant.

The D-Man checks in

[(Anonymous)]

Ummmm... People? Am I the only (straight) person here who can see that this sticker has another view-point? Last I checked, this was the United States of America, where everyone is supposed to be created & treated equal; black/white... gay/straight... man/woman... If you want to separate gays from rights... What does that say about America?
This dumb (and mis-spelled) fool thing could work to the gay community's benefit by pointing out that... Hmmmmmm... "Are we really treating gays like people/citizens in this county by setting up laws that deprive them of equal rights?"

At least that was the first thing that crossed my mind--as a straight person--when I first looked at this sticker. I didn't see it as anti-gay, but as anti-establishment... and perhaps rightfully so.

Re: The D-Man checks in

[eyeless-angel.livejournal.com]

August 27, 1987 -

Sherman: Surely you recognize the equal citizenship and patriotism of Americans who are atheists?

(G.H.W.) Bush: No, I don't know that atheists should be considered as citizens, nor should they be considered patriots. This is one nation under God.

And he was later voted into office.

These people don't think gays deserve rights because gays are also sub-citizens, and sub-human in their eyes. Anything to throw a bone into their plans to make money off these ideas should be done, imo.