Here is a breakdown of shopify and their support for nazi merch!
this post was submitted on 11 Feb 2025
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A company that sells nazi merch is a nazi company.
Pretty sure Shopify took down the site.
Took a long fucking time to do that.
Pretty sure spotify said to not comment about them selling Nazi gear
Shopify is a Nazi company, or at least sympathetic to Nazis.
If it's true that they took the site down then i don't think so. They just don't want "official" statements on the subject coming from some minimum wage phone lackey.
As someone who was a minimum wage phone lackey for a good few years, i wouldn't have trusted me with this subject either
because they told their front line support to say "no comment" on matters unrelated to Shopify stores? it seems like they took the store down, which really has little to do with the influx of support tickets and calls they likely got. I worked support for years -- this is amazingly unsurprising and I think the correct move, if they did indeed take down the store that is.
e: spacing
How difficult is it to say "We at Shopify do not support Nazis*?
idk people have to agree in some smoky board room on the correct message and policy and run it by legal or something. i mean there are probably lots of ppl involved
“All merchants are responsible for following the rules of our platform. This merchant did not engage in authentic commerce practices and violated our terms so we removed them from Shopify,” the company told TechCrunch in a statement.
mmm delicious bland corporate platitudes
Yeah I wouldn't be too happy if I was considered a Nazi for the actions someone else took with software I made.
The whole store is down now: https://yeezy.com/
I was thinking the "no comment" policy could just have been them working though the process to shut down their participation. A more direct statement would have been preferable, but it doesn't surprise me that they would rather get their ducks in a row before making an official statement.
Any time I've worked at a company that's had a big news announcement, they always send an email out first/same time saying, if any media inquiries or outside questions come in, please direct them to XYZ department. And that goes to everyone, not just support staff. They know the media can try to find other random employees.
it's pretty standard stuff.
The only thing not standard, would be if they told the support staff this, and then went radio silence and did absolutely nothing about it.
Yeah, generally you don't want the front-line staff talking to the public about things outside their job description, because they could easily say something inaccurate.
Most organizations have a whole corporate affairs or PR department that employees are required to go through first before talking to the press.
Fence sitting isn't a good look either
Yeap, Tobias Lütke is our very own Canadian Muskrat... just as racist, just as stupid, just as full of himself
Not surprising. There's a part of the Shopify careers site that has a letter you have to acknowledge that says (paraphrased): Care more about the ability to sell than what people sell, and if feel you might disagree with what people sell then this isn't the workplace for you. They really drill that point home on the site and in interviews, not surprising their stance is 'no comment'.
(I didn't get the job)
Yeah.
I'm sure that shopify is a shitty company, but this doesn't strike me as any more shitty than any other retailer.
I mean, you can't have your staff telling people to reduce the amount of plastic they buy.
The site is down now, but I'll point out that that policy probably gets used more for filtering out religious people who might take issue with selling queer, feminism, or even rock music related items.
He knows there are plenty of racist that will buy his merch. Making money from them does not mean he has to like them. You know how capitalism works! Its all about the money!
Hahahahahaha. Doesn't he realize that the original Nazis would have refused to call him a human? They'd call him ape just because he's black.
Anyways don't travel to Europe with that shirt. You'll get beaten or jailed the moment you step out of the plane.
Counterpoint: Do travel to Europe with that shirt, for the same reasons you said.
Do travel to Europe with that shirt
I feel nazis need to be proud of their hate, wear it and see its effects. And die that way so everyone knows why.
Give him a time machine and march into germany. Yo mr. Hitler, big fan here.
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I’d recommend you contact any companies you’ve made a purchase from that uses Shopify as their backend. Tell them seeing the shop logo at checkout makes you feel uncomfortable going forward with a purchase knowing that Shopify also sells Nazi goods.
wasn't shopify started by 2 Germans?
that's surprisingly spineless
Wait he bought a super bowl ad to sell Nazi merch?
Yeezy, the apparel brand of musician Kanye West, is using Shopify’s technology to sell the swastika T-shirt. The Ottawa-headquartered commerce firm has yet to say publicly whether it will intervene. West, also known as Ye, bought a Super Bowl ad to direct people to the website. The store currently displays a single product named “HH-01,” a white T-shirt with the black version of the swastika used by the Nazi Party.
A current Shopify employee told The Logic that another member of staff, who is Jewish, had said on the company’s internal Slack messaging service they were uncomfortable that West’s store had been allowed to remain online for such a long time. The post had a number of supportive emoji reactions underneath.
The Shopify employee, whom The Logic agreed not to name because they were not authorized to speak to the press, said they first saw an alert about West’s store on Shopify’s Slack messaging system at around 2 p.m. ET Monday. In a response to the alert, someone from Shopify’s incident response team said senior leadership was “on top of it.”
Around 30 minutes later, support staff tasked with speaking to Shopify’s merchant clients were told to give “no comment” if a merchant asked about West’s swastika T-shirt and to end the chat if they established the merchant didn’t have questions about their own store.
And a 30-second Superbowl ad costs $8 million.
The worst part is, now that America has really showed its true underbelly, he'll probably make all of that back plus a tidy profit.
Cowards.
The fact they are still Shopify employees at this point is comment enough.
Bruh jobs don't grow on trees and some people have others counting on them and can't be a martyr.
Seems a little extreme to claim that it's unethical to work for a company because someone who uses their product did something unethical.
Guess we've extended "there is no ethical consumption under capitalism" to "there is no ethics under capitalism" entirely.
They're customer support. They're not making decisions at the company, they're just trying to pay their bills.
And they likely work for a call center that shopify contracts to handle support
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You'd denigrate the forklift operator loading cargo onto a truck without first looking inside.
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