Amazon Sells Books Promoting White Supremacy

Amazon Sells Books Promoting White Supremacy
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In the wake of the El Paso shooting, in which 22 were killed and 24 injured, the discovery of a racist manifesto that may be linked to the shooter has pushed white supremacist ideologies into prominence.

Several politicians, including President Donald Trump and Democratic political candidates Texas Rep. Beto O'Rourke and Ohio Rep. Tim Ryan, denounced white supremacist messages that have propagated on websites such as 8chan. 

Cloudflare, a network security platform that protects websites from cyberattacks, renounced 8chan Monday and terminated its services following the shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio. But there may be a more innocuous place for white supremacist propaganda to spread.

Amazon currently sells multiple books that espouse racist and white supremacist ideologies on its platform.

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