Walmart: 'All Lives Matter' bumper sticker is offensive

[Jackson]

Walmart: 'All Lives Matter' bumper sticker is offensive

For the past nine months Domagron, a family-owned business, has been selling “All Lives Matter” bumper stickers on Walmart’s online marketplace.

But on Oct. 11 the company received a notice from the nation’s largest retailer that the bumper sticker had been removed from its marketplace.

The notice implied that the bumper sticker had violated the company’s “prohibited products” policy.

Owner Dominick Agron was stunned – so he fired off an email to Walmart demanding to know why the “All Lives Matter” bumper sticker was prohibited.

A spokesperson from Walmart responded Thursday: "The item you’re asking about was incorrectly removed due to a system error earlier this week and was quickly re-published to our site, which you can see here."

Later that evening Agron was stunned to receive the following message from Walmart:

“’All Lives Matter’ has been deemed an offensive term. These types of items are not appropriate for the Walmart Marketplace.”

Mr. Agron was furious.

“Walmart should be ashamed of itself,” he said. “To advocate a view that not all lives matter is deplorable.”

Meanwhile, Mr. Agron wrote a letter to the company’s board of directors announcing his intentions to terminate his relationship with Walmart.

“As a result of Walmart’s blatant discrimination and formal position that “ALL” lives do not matter, we are terminating our relationship with Walmart effective immediately,” he wrote. “I am disappointed in your views, but we cannot transact with such a morally corrupt organization.”

Mr. Agron’s message apparently was received loud and clear at Walmart headquarters – because they recently reinstated the bumper sticker.

“They had blamed the removal on a system issue,” he said. “While we seriously doubt the veracity of the claim, we are taking it at face value.”

Mr. Agron is right to be suspicious.

“Someone needed to code the algorithm in the system to consider the term ‘All Lives Matter offensive,’” he said. “A computer can’t do that on its own.”

As a good faith measure, he decided to reinstate all of his other products on the Walmart marketplace.

“However, we reserve the right to cease dealing with Walmart once again,” he added.

Last month a Walmart in Georgia refused to decorate a cake with the words “Blue Lives Matter.”

Facing a media firestorm and national outrage, the store had a change of heart and agreed to comply with the customer’s wishes.

Sounds like the Walmart bakers may have had the same algorithm problem that resulted in the bumper sticker getting banned.

Walmart might want to look into that.

Walmart: 'All Lives Matter' Bumper Sticker Is Offensive

There's something wrong with our society when citizens claim one section of its population matters above the others. We all matter!

 

[Mudda]

Walmart: 'All Lives Matter' bumper sticker is offensive

For the past nine months Domagron, a family-owned business, has been selling “All Lives Matter” bumper stickers on Walmart’s online marketplace.

But on Oct. 11 the company received a notice from the nation’s largest retailer that the bumper sticker had been removed from its marketplace.

The notice implied that the bumper sticker had violated the company’s “prohibited products” policy.

Owner Dominick Agron was stunned – so he fired off an email to Walmart demanding to know why the “All Lives Matter” bumper sticker was prohibited.

A spokesperson from Walmart responded Thursday: "The item you’re asking about was incorrectly removed due to a system error earlier this week and was quickly re-published to our site, which you can see here."

Later that evening Agron was stunned to receive the following message from Walmart:

“’All Lives Matter’ has been deemed an offensive term. These types of items are not appropriate for the Walmart Marketplace.”

Mr. Agron was furious.

“Walmart should be ashamed of itself,” he said. “To advocate a view that not all lives matter is deplorable.”

Meanwhile, Mr. Agron wrote a letter to the company’s board of directors announcing his intentions to terminate his relationship with Walmart.

“As a result of Walmart’s blatant discrimination and formal position that “ALL” lives do not matter, we are terminating our relationship with Walmart effective immediately,” he wrote. “I am disappointed in your views, but we cannot transact with such a morally corrupt organization.”

Mr. Agron’s message apparently was received loud and clear at Walmart headquarters – because they recently reinstated the bumper sticker.

“They had blamed the removal on a system issue,” he said. “While we seriously doubt the veracity of the claim, we are taking it at face value.”

Mr. Agron is right to be suspicious.

“Someone needed to code the algorithm in the system to consider the term ‘All Lives Matter offensive,’” he said. “A computer can’t do that on its own.”

As a good faith measure, he decided to reinstate all of his other products on the Walmart marketplace.

“However, we reserve the right to cease dealing with Walmart once again,” he added.

Last month a Walmart in Georgia refused to decorate a cake with the words “Blue Lives Matter.”

Facing a media firestorm and national outrage, the store had a change of heart and agreed to comply with the customer’s wishes.

Sounds like the Walmart bakers may have had the same algorithm problem that resulted in the bumper sticker getting banned.

Walmart might want to look into that.

Walmart: 'All Lives Matter' Bumper Sticker Is Offensive

There's something wrong with our society when citizens claim one section of its population matters above the others. We all matter!

You must be a white supremacist pointy hood wearer. Don't you know that only black lives matter? ... Just not to black fathers.

 

[Asclepias]

All lives matters wasnt a thing until they were upset that Black people said Black lives mattered. Whites copy everything they can since they have no original thought.

 

[squeeze berry]

lol at the dead ****** that gets caught vandalizing my vehicle

 

[dfens]

I actually disagree with both "black lives matter" and the reaction of "all lives matter"

None of us really matter. We are just workers for the big banks and corporations. Our lives our meaningless.

 

[Ozone]

only my life matters, not sure about the rest of you to be quite honest.

 

[ptbw forever]

If only Sam Walton could see his company now.....

 

[BrokeLoser]

All lives matters wasnt a thing until they were upset that Black people said Black lives mattered. Whites copy everything they can since they have no original thought.

Thank God you couldn't be more wrong...could you imagine if whites did in fact copy blacks and their behaviors?
We'd need a lot more prisons and that kind of drag on the public assistance would break the system for sure.

 

[Wyatt earp]

All lives matters wasnt a thing until they were upset that Black people said Black lives mattered. Whites copy everything they can since they have no original thought.

Blacks are racist...when they say black lives matter...well no shit scherlocks


.

 

[Asclepias]

All lives matters wasnt a thing until they were upset that Black people said Black lives mattered. Whites copy everything they can since they have no original thought.

Blacks are racist...when they say black lives matter...well no shit scherlocks


.

Whites are racist when they say Blacks are racist for saying Black lives matter.

 

[Wyatt earp]

All lives matters wasnt a thing until they were upset that Black people said Black lives mattered. Whites copy everything they can since they have no original thought.

Blacks are racist...when they say black lives matter...well no shit scherlocks


.

Whites are racist when they say Blacks are racist for saying Black lives matter.

Blacks are racist when they say whites are racist when they say blacks are racist for saying black lives matter.

 

[Asclepias]

All lives matters wasnt a thing until they were upset that Black people said Black lives mattered. Whites copy everything they can since they have no original thought.

Blacks are racist...when they say black lives matter...well no shit scherlocks


.

Whites are racist when they say Blacks are racist for saying Black lives matter.

Blacks are racist when they say whites are racist when they say blacks are racist for saying black lives matter.

Whites are racist when they say Blacks are racist when they say whites are racist when they say Blacks are racist for saying black lives matter.

 

[Wyatt earp]

All lives matters wasnt a thing until they were upset that Black people said Black lives mattered. Whites copy everything they can since they have no original thought.

Blacks are racist...when they say black lives matter...well no shit scherlocks


.

Whites are racist when they say Blacks are racist for saying Black lives matter.

Blacks are racist when they say whites are racist when they say blacks are racist for saying black lives matter.

Whites are racist when they say Blacks are racist when they say whites are racist when they say Blacks are racist for saying black lives matter.

Blacks are racist when they say Whites are racist when they say Blacks are racist when they say whites are racist when they say Blacks are racist for saying black lives matter.

 

[squeeze berry]

All lives matters wasnt a thing until they were upset that Black people said Black lives mattered. Whites copy everything they can since they have no original thought.

Blacks are racist...when they say black lives matter...well no shit scherlocks


.

Whites are racist when they say Blacks are racist for saying Black lives matter.

blacks are racist

period

 

[Mudda]

All lives matters wasnt a thing until they were upset that Black people said Black lives mattered. Whites copy everything they can since they have no original thought.

Focusing on one race is the very definition of racist.

 

[Mudda]

All lives matters wasnt a thing until they were upset that Black people said Black lives mattered. Whites copy everything they can since they have no original thought.

Blacks are racist...when they say black lives matter...well no shit scherlocks


.

Whites are racist when they say Blacks are racist for saying Black lives matter.

So you're saying that blacks aren't racist?

 

[ThankU4votingTrump]

All lives matters wasnt a thing until they were upset that Black people said Black lives mattered. Whites copy everything they can since they have no original thought.

Thank God you couldn't be more wrong...could you imagine if whites did in fact copy blacks and their behaviors?
We'd need a lot more prisons and that kind of drag on the public assistance would break the system for sure.

Yeah, some how I can´t picture two fat white women fighting in the middle of the street while white guys stand around recording it on their cell phones.

 

[koshergrl]

I actually disagree with both "black lives matter" and the reaction of "all lives matter"

None of us really matter. We are just workers for the big banks and corporations. Our lives our meaningless.

speak for yourself.

 

[miketx]

All lives matters wasnt a thing until they were upset that Black people said Black lives mattered. Whites copy everything they can since they have no original thought.

If whites copied everything blacks did, civilization would have failed decades ago. Look how great blacks are doing in Africa.

 

[Asclepias]

All lives matters wasnt a thing until they were upset that Black people said Black lives mattered. Whites copy everything they can since they have no original thought.

Blacks are racist...when they say black lives matter...well no shit scherlocks


.

Whites are racist when they say Blacks are racist for saying Black lives matter.

So you're saying that blacks aren't racist?

Try reading that again then tell me what you came up with dummy.