Kabul skydiving club’ t-shirts mocking the refugees
Social media users drew attention to the offensive T-shirts and sales listings on Twitter. While several were hosted by niche e-commerce sites, one was being sold via a link on Etsy, which serves as a platform for independent sellers to run their own shops. Holly Dagres, an Iranian-American senior fellow at the Atlantic Council think tank, said in a tweet: ‘As Afghans are fleeing and clinging to planes out of desperation, someone decided to capitalise on their pain and misery with this repulsive T-shirt’.
