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Skrewdriver White Nationalist T-Shirts Now Available at Walmart

The infamous pro-Nazi punk band Skrewdriver’s T-shirts have now been removed

Retail chain Walmart has pulled a pair of T-shirts promoting the infamous white band Skrewdriver that were listed for sale on the company’s website through third-party retailers.

There were at least two T-shirts available; one had a design of a raised white fist on a black background with the words “White Power” below Skrewdriver’s name. Another had the cover of Skrewdriver’s book. Shoes and harnesses1987 album, which later turned into a compilation with another album titled Voice of Great Britain (the T-shirt had the titles of both albums on it).

Screenshot by Rolling Stone

Based on screenshots of offers made by Rolling stone As of Monday morning (September 23), it was revealed that two different third-party stores were selling the shirts. The listings, which have since been removed, also drew attention on Reddit over the weekend but there was not much noise about it.

A Walmart spokesman said: Rolling stone“Like major online retailers, we operate an online marketplace that allows third-party sellers to offer items to customers through our e-commerce platform. This item was listed by a third-party seller and has been removed because it did not meet our standards and policies.”

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Walmart’s third-party retailer policy excludes the sale of a variety of items, from alcohol and precious metals to funeral products and vaporizers. The company also prohibits the sale of items that may violate its “offensive content” policy, including items that “promote intolerance, hatred, degradation, or mistreatment of others based on race, ethnicity, religion, gender, disability, sexual orientation, body image, or similar characteristics.” The policy specifically lists: “Items, media, or propaganda related to Nazism, white supremacy, or other hate groups that promote prejudice or bigotry.”

Skrewdriver were originally active as a skinhead/Oi! band in the 1970s, and became an openly nationalist, neo-Nazi group after frontman Ian Stuart Donaldson revived the group in the 1980s (Donaldson died in 1993). Skrewdriver were part of the Rock Against Communism movement, which organised white power concerts in the UK. Their music is unavailable on most major commercial platforms.