Imagine visiting a blog you contribute to. On the side: A set of Amazon ads featuring a David Duke book. The next day, another David Duke book. A day or two later, a book by Holocaust denier David Irving.

That’s what life has been like for me with Robert’s Rationale (though I hope most of you have started reading Orble-based The Rationale instead). I e-mailed Amazon support a couple of days ago, but they didn’t get back to me. I took all my Amazon ads down; I haven’t sold a single book since joining anyhow.

The funny thing is that I tend to write about America’s racial problems, which focus on the black/white/Hispanic tension. I’ve mentioned both David Duke (I think it’s hilarious he lives in New Orleans) and Holocaust denial (the media does a terrible job of covering it), but most of my race writing has concerned immigration, diversity, IQ, poverty and the like.

In slight defense of Amazon, here’s how the ads work. A computer program reads my blog, matches the topics to various books Amazon sells and places ads for those books on my site. Again, I write about race on a fairly frequent basis, though from nothing resembling David Duke or David Irving’s perspectives. So it’s not like an Amazon employee picked out “My Awakening” as a great book to market.

I’m certainly not saying Amazon should shy away from selling controversial or even racist books; people researching those subjects need access to them. But when a program selects products to promote, Amazon should remove such fare from the pool.

Not only does it make client sites look bad. It makes Amazon, in effect, promote hateful material.

What’s scariest is that Jew-run blogs probably experience the same thing, particularly if they talk about the KKK or the Holocaust often.

Since I killed my Amazon ads, you can’t confirm this yourself. However, I made a PDF of my blog’s homepage with two David Duke books promoted on it. E-mail me at robertv4311[at]gmail.com for an attachment.

Robert VerBruggen blogs at http://www.therationale.com.