“Welcome to the Etsy community forum”
Yes, Etsy is a racist organisation. I recently started another Etsy shop. I just posted my first ever post on the Etsy “community” forums. This is what I said, here it is, more or less (albeit without the image because images are not allowed because images might offend people):
Why is Etsy advertising "black-owned businesses" but not "white-owned" ones? That's clearly racist!
- https://www.google.com/search?q=black+owned+businesses+etsy&oq=black+owned+businesses+etsy
- https://www.etsy.com/au/market/black_owned_shops
- https://www.etsy.com/au/market/black_owned_business
- https://www.etsy.com/au/market/black_owned
- https://www.etsy.com/featured/blackownedshops
- https://www.etsy.com/au/market/black_owned_businesses_on
This is not something I support. It is clearly racist. And discriminatory.
It’s favouritism of black-owned Etsy businesses and at the same time it’s discrimination AGAINST white-owned businesses.
It even goes against Etsy’s very own “Anti-Discrimination and Hate Speech Policy”:https://www.etsy.com/au/legal/policy/anti-discrimination-and-hate-speech/123551108902?ref=list
Anti-Discrimination and Hate Speech Policy
Etsy prohibits the use of our Services to discriminate against people based on the following personal attributes (collectively, “protected groups”):
- Race
- Colour
- Ethnicity
- National origin
- Religion
- Gender
- Gender identity
- Sexual orientation
- Disability
- Any other characteristic protected under applicable law
Who is in charge there?
Because I think you have made a drastically large error.
And guess what happened? The post was secretly locked, although the thread doesn’t say “locked”. And my posting “privileges” were instantly revoked. I don’t know if that was temporary, or what. But it’s pretty clear to me that the Etsy “community” forums are a very politically biased place.
It got one reply along the lines of “It’s a private business. If you don’t like it, leave”. And that was it. Not even any discussion about the matter!
(Despite the fact that Etsy is listed on the stock exchange, which makes it a “publicly traded company“, which obviously makes it a company owned by the public. Etsy is not a private company.)
Did I say something that bad? Is it me? What’s wrong with these people?! The worst part is that nobody could even SEE the post. It vanished! It’s only visible if you use the search function or happen to look at my [now banned] profile. It seems to me that censorship is rife on the Etsy community forums.
And it’s not the first time someone has raised the subject and had their perfectly valid opinions quashed. the moderators over at the Etsy “community” forums will basically lock anything that they don’t like the sounds of. If you have an opinion, tough cookies, you’re out of luck.
- https://community.etsy.com/t5/Managing-Your-Shop/Black-Owned-Businesses-on-Etsy-Main-Page/m-p/131232542
- https://community.etsy.com/t5/Marketing-Your-Business/Isn-t-promoting-black-owned-businesses-on-Etsy-itself-a-form-of/m-p/130728365
- https://community.etsy.com/t5/Managing-Your-Shop/Black-owned-shops/m-p/130710736
- https://community.etsy.com/t5/Marketing-Your-Business/Black-Owned-Shops/m-p/130863563
- https://community.etsy.com/t5/Shop-Critiques/Black-owned-business/m-p/130648107
- https://community.etsy.com/t5/Managing-Your-Shop/Etsy-I-do-NOT-appreciate-being-lectured-by-the-CEO-on-Black/m-p/130533849
- https://community.etsy.com/t5/Managing-Your-Shop/How-is-this-not-racism/td-p/130791218
All of these threads have been locked by close-minded Etsy moderators. All of them. All.
UPDATE: For my second post, entitled “What happened to my post? “, this one, I was permanently banned! Wow. Hahaha
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