How Do You Call for a Boycott of Something Totally Wrong?

This site is just wrong. Who in their right mind would buy something from there. I would do as the others say and get ahold of the company and if that don't work then I would take it to the press. Let me know what goes on. And if you need help let me know and I'll stand behide you on this one. People should not make funny of someone who can't help it for what disable they have.

That is terrible, but that is one of the reasons there is so much wrong with the world today....You can go and report it to organizations that support people with disabilities, and let the press know they are many people who are affected with disabilities and they will join your protest. I know i would my daughter is autistic and I hate taking her to public places because she will loose control and it looks like i am a bad parent when i am not and people will look down on me or say Can't you control your child and I get offended and my feeling are hurt but i can't control that but i do only shop at store and what not that the employees respect myself and my daughter. and i even make the stores aware that that is one of the reasons i shop there or don't shop there. good luck i hope you can accomplish something if everyone gave alittle of themselves for one thing the world would be a much better place.

Oh this is so bad!!!!!!!! I found this group that supports indiviuals with disabilities on line. This may be a place that could help http://www.dredf.org/

Also, I would start with your own grassroots effort to boycott. Send out and e-mail to all of your contacts explainging the situation and requesting a boycott and ask it to be forwardded on.

I think I've ordered a t-shirt from that company in the past! No more! Good Luck with your efforts.

Dear C.:
I would simply do what you are doing now. Post this information on as many BBS's as you can, let your friends & relatives know how insensitive this company is.
You can also write to the company directly, see if you can get an Internet petition started. You would need 25,000 signatures to make an impact on a site like cafepress, they have been around awhile. Even with a petition, they are likely to do nothing.
Not giving your patronage to their site is your own way of not helping them be insensitive and rude.
But, I think personally that just telling everyone you know that they sell material that is offensive to the Disabled community will do a lot...remember that in business even bad press is good press. By posting this information on BBS's you will drive traffic to their site, people may not buy the rude shirts...but may still grant them their patronage.
You have to do what ever you feel is best.
At the end of the day it is what it is and they do have protection under the 1st amendment.
I am in a wheelchair and before writing to you, I went to their site to see just how bad some of their stuff is. I personally was not offended as I KNOW I am a person first and disabled 2nd, my disability does not define me. Just as it should not define your friends daughter. She is a child who happens to be blind. If she is referred to as a Blind child all her life, the disability will define her. You cannot let that happen. We are people with disabilities, not disabilities with people.

Best of Luck whatever you choose,

J. T

Yes, I think these shirts and others are just horrible and they must be made by heartless people who have never had anyone close to them have a problem. I don't get it. Keep in mind though that ANYONE can have a shop there. So, what you could do, is set up a shop, so that instead of people comming up with that site, they would come up with yours, which would have possitive things in it. Just my 2 cents. :)

That is so wrong!!!!!!If I were you, I would start by contacting your local newspaper, and news crew, and get a sotry published. I have a disabled sister, and I find this web sight extremly offensive.

I think it's important to understand that the cafepress.com site has nothing to do with the quality or appropriateness of what is sold on it. Individuals create a "shop" on there and upload their images, and anyone can find their items through keyword search. You should figure out the name of the shop selling the items and encourage people to boycott that business. It doesn't make any more sense to boycott cafepress for this than it would to boycott Staples because someone bought markers and posterboard there and wrote an offensive sign with it.

Before you call a boycott of Cafepress, try to track down on whose behalf they are selling these offensive shirts. Cafepress is a vendor of logo shirts for a large number of internet companies, not all of whom should be penalized for one company's poor taste. Then you can go nuclear on the actual offender, rather than just their employees.

I agree with the other poster who said track down the company who makes the shirts and boycott them. It's terrible some of the things that happen in this world. While we're on the boycott topic, I think all pet shops that sell puppies should be boycotted too. All the puppies sold by any pet shop are from puppy mills or Back yard breeders trying to get rich. Health, and even purity of breed aren't guaranteed. please check out www.puppymillrescue.com to see what really goes on and what a puppy mill really is.

That is DISGUSTING!! I am doubly offended. I work at St. Josephs Center, a facility for severely mentally and physically handicapped children and adults. And, I don't understand why anyone would make these things (The shirts). And, who would wear them?? I would contact them and, if you don't get anywhere with them, take it to your newspaper.
T.:)

Contact your local media, it may or may not stop them from selling the shirts but it will make others aware of it. If enough people complain the company will have no choice but to stop selling them or lose business.

There's a big difference between censoring free speech and eliminating hate speech. If I were you I would contact cafepress.com and file a complaint.