Frenchman Offended; San Jose Mercury News Columnist Outraged

CafePress T-shirts and merchandise are coming under fire from Frenchmen in America, and a Merc-News columnist is flabbergasted that they're not following their stated policy and banning this filthy foul filth. The one they mentioned was "I just neutered the dog. Now he's French", which I don't see on this page of CafePress anti-French merchandise.What ever shall we do about these vile slanders, frets columnist L.A. Chung? After all,

...you cannot find CafePress' policy unless you look really hard. I tried, navigating the pages that help new businesses set up shop with CafePress. Things that can get you sued - copyright infringement and the disregard for licensing - were easy to find.

CafePress' media contact man, Marc Cowlin, e-mailed me a single statement:

[blah blah blah boilerplate statement redacted--seedub]

Translation: We don't pay attention to content. We just want your money.

I didn't want to make rash conclusions, but Cowlin didn't respond to my repeated queries over two days.

I suggest a simpler policy: "Anything goes. Except if we notice."

Meanwhile, L.A. Chung's ire seems unmoved by this little dig at mentally handicapped children:

Or this one , which uses a bit of the vulgarity Chung says that CafePress's rules prohibit:

I found those after approximately eighteen seconds of searching CafePress. I think they're tacky but I'm hardly going to write a column in a major regional paper about them.

Oh wait, five more seconds of searching yields this:

That's okay, though, because it doesn't insult the French.

UPDATE: Did you know that CafePress has an entire section devoted to anti-Israel merchandise, with 172 fresh Jew-hatin' styles? I hope the Merc News didn't when they decided to write about the offended Frenchmen. Because when you stack up the dog-neutering comment beside this...

Teddy bear available, too.

...it suggests the Merc News may lack a bit of perspective. That's the nice interpretation, anyway. I don't want to "make rash conclusions".