Amazon staff members in Seattle staged a demonstration at the megacorporation’s headquarters on June 1st to oppose the online merchant’s ongoing sales of allegedly “transphobic” products. The protestors specifically identified books by Daily Wire author Matt Walsh and independent journalist Abigail Shrier, the author of “Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters.”
The demonstration, which was staged to interrupt Amazon’s Pride flag-raising event, which was carried out to celebrate Pride Month, saw around 30 workers curtaining themselves in transgender Pride flags and laying on the ground to play dead.
The so-called “die-in” demonstration was cataloged by Business Insider reporter Katherine Long, who took photos and video of the flag-raising event.
I’m at Amazon’s Seattle headquarters, where about 30 Amazon employees are staging a die-in during Amazon’s Pride Flag raising ceremony in protest of the company’s continued sale of what they say are transphobic books. pic.twitter.com/Pz0Pyy0Mzi
— Katherine Long (@_katya_long) June 1, 2022
As detailed by Long, the workers are associated with an internal staff member activist group called “No Hate at Amazon.”
When Amazon security faced the protestors, several of them refused to move and got in a verbal confrontation with the guards.
The employees are affiliated with the internal employee activist group No Hate at Amazon, which @eugenekim222 profiled in March. https://t.co/bJfzx9OY69
— Katherine Long (@_katya_long) June 1, 2022
The hosts of the flag-raising event, leaders of Amazon’s company-sponsored LGBTQA+ affinity group, Glamazon, several times attempted to quell the protest before announcing they would cancel the flag-raising ceremony. pic.twitter.com/v3CrfOUBMK
— Katherine Long (@_katya_long) June 1, 2022
The transgender activists offered a speech at the virtue-signaling flag-raising event to describe the cause for their demonstration, which they claim was rooted in Amazon’s “spreading a culture of hatred through the sale of transphobic books, promoting and profiting off content that advocates for the abuse of transgender children.”
According to Ian Miles Cheong of Rebel News,
“The activists, who are employees of Amazon, slammed their employer for performing a “PR stunt” with its Pride flag-raising ceremony. The group insists that the ceremony was “blatant rainbow-washing, and all done for show,” as the retailer sells “content that aids and encourages the psychological abuse of transgender children.”
“There is a direct line between the hateful transphobic rhetoric Amazon is profiting from, the unprecedented anti-trans legislation across the United States, and the violent and often deadly physical attacks so many of our community face,” said the group in an open letter. “2021 saw the most murders of transgender people in recorded history. Overwhelmingly, these victims are Black trans women and trans women of color.”
The group mentioned a variety of main titles that they wish to be prohibited from the merchant, consisting of Abigail Shrier’s “Irreversible Damage,” and Matt Walsh’s “Johnny the Walrus.”
The open letter released by the activists refers to a video of two Amazon workers hosting an internal conference going over the success of Walsh’s book on the site, in which they implicated the author of abusing Amazon’s systems, declaring he is “taking advantage of Amazon and how the Amazon algorithms work to promote their particular brand of hate and harm.”
The letter asks: “Can you imagine the fear of transgender employees at seeing their coworkers’ identities plastered over conservative media? At seeing the names of fellow employees handed to a transphobic internet mob, wondering if they would be doxxed next?”
“Walsh used the publicity from this attack to get his book to number one on Amazon. Let me repeat that. The number one book across all of Amazon. Top of our charts,” it says.
“In Walsh’s own words, this effectively made him the bestselling author in the country. Amazon rewarded him for this harassment with enormous sales. Money he will use to keep spreading hate. This is f***king embarrassing. Everyone who let this happen should be embarrassed and ashamed,” said the trans activists.
The speech likewise points out Walsh’s newly-released documentary, “What is a Woman?” and their apprehension towards its release.
“Matt Walsh is not some random transphobe on the internet. This man is a serial abuser who has openly attacked our coworkers and our customers, and it will happen again if Amazon does not act,” the activists said.
According to The Daily Wire, the conservative network was stricken by a massive DDOS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack that launched millions of queries per minute, disabling the site during the release of “What is a woman?”.
The outlet wrote, “Despite the hackers’ best efforts, the premiere of “What is a Woman?” was the most trafficked live stream The Daily Wire has ever experienced — and the company added more paid subscribers than any other previous day in its history.”
H/T Rebel News
