Suggestion for new policy on items connected to race. Firstly, ebay, stop book burning...

[borkboing]

Let me start with a simple point, that selling an item from the period of Jim Crow/Slavery in no way 'promotes or glorifies racial, sexual or religious intolerance'. I am offended to have been so judged by such a thoughtless policy.

If you see such an item like a slave bell and think it glorifies slavery, you're sick in the head and sick in the soul.  These items are a lesson and a warning. 

1) How are African Americans to collect such items? Taking away this valuable social and historical resource from the African-American community is a gross overstep. Put another way, Ebay has no right.

2) Make the items that are so condemned visible in the same way eBay's tens of thousands of 'adult' items are viewed, with a separate sign in page. Only in this way adult responsibility has been served and legitimate sellers and legitimate buyers can interact.

3) Banning items that offend you is what is done to peoples that are not free.  Stop book burning. If you can tell me to my face that I am promoting racial hatred by selling historical items, I get to tell you the painful truth that you have overstepped into oppression. You're not helping, you're hurting. 

[borkboing]

Please send me any left over pig masks at your leisure. You have my address. https://boston.cbslocal.com/2020/06/15/ebay-employees-arrested-u-s-attorney-andrew-lelling-cyberstal...

[jack_bucks_ghost]

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@borkboing wrote:
Please send me any left over pig masks at your leisure. You have my address. https://boston.cbslocal.com/2020/06/15/ebay-employees-arrested-u-s-attorney-andrew-lelling-cyberstal...

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oh, that's an entirely different thread...lol

[whiteparrot2003]

Maybe ebay needs a special category of collectibles:  Black Americana

[upgradedendmills]

This is a very broad outline of a workable solution to this problem that would benefit sellers, collectors, and most (certainly not all!!!) sensitive or easily offended groups.

     Develop and maintain within eBay a subscriber service to seperate independent stand alone sites for "offensive" items categories. By charging a subscriber fee, it would ensure that viewers would only be exposed to items they had paid to see and agreed to view. This would allow eBay to monetize and continue to host these items without offending their general customer base. Maybe make the FVF's a percentage point or two above normal to make these special categories self supporting.

     It would be a compromise that would make items available only to those buyers seeking and not offended by that type of item. If items slipped through and were listed in general categories either by mistake or plan, it would give them a holding area to be assigned to rather than being pulled.

     With the added revenue from subscriber fees and increased FVF's establish a panel of humans to review and establish practices and guidelines.  No bots!!!!! Sellers gain a marketplace, viewers are vetted, and eBay stays whole or gains revenue. The general public stays unoffended. (for the most part)