Sometimes even the right result does absolutely nothing to assuage the rage one feels upon hearing a deep and dark issue.

As the title notes, Kmart and Sears pulled shirts that were on display, for sale, calling Ashli Babbitt, the woman who lost her life in the Capitol because she failed to heed the law enforcement’s warning, after warning, after warning, so many more warnings than we’ve seen given Black Americans from the police when she and her crowd represented a true threat to congressional representatives just a hallway away. And yet somehow, Babbitt, who refused police commands and proudly held herself out as a threat, has become a hero of the “Back the Blue” crowd, to the point that they are selling shirts lionizing her as a patriot.

But we have come to expect the worst (although perhaps not quite to this degree) from the MAGAs. We have not and will not accept decisions accepting the worst from mainstream retail outlets. What were the shirts doing there!

According to The Hill:

The shirt, which also included a faded black and white American flag, prompted backlash from social media users Tuesday after Vox’s Aaron Rupar tweeted a screenshot of the item of clothing, as well as the links to the product on Sears’s and Kmart’s websites.

Hours after Rupar’s initial tweet, the official Sears account responded, writing that the product was “no longer available for purchase” on the websites for Sears and Kmart, both of which are owned by parent company Transformco.

We do not know a lot about retail, but we understand enough to know that the shirts did not order themselves, nor did the sellers make the decision for Kmart and Sears. We also know that individual store managers must have seen the shirts (they did not hang themselves). And yet there they were? Why!

It is made worse by the fact that it took a tweet, forcing them to run the numbers: “Shirts sold versus people refusing to walk through our doors ever again…Pull the shirts.” Correct result, which does nothing to absolve either outlet.

.@Sears (https://t.co/VTWoZlm95W) and @Kmart (https://t.co/lZolqc38ga) are selling Ashli Babbitt "American Patriot" shirts pic.twitter.com/CYx3dVINfB

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 6, 2021

This is outrageous and both outlets should pay a price for even hanging these shirts. We recommend that people avoid the stores until these companies do something demonstrating that they fully appreciate the seriousness of the problem and the danger it represents to the country.

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