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12-16-2008, 09:26 AM
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An interesting read: http://www.lehighvalleylive.com/toda...ily_angry.html
A grocery store refused to do the writing on a child's birthday cake for a family with some rather uncommon names for their kids.
It's toeing a line, but really I feel like you have to let people be stupid if they want to be stupid. I wonder how much the kids will appreciate their names when they grow up? |
12-16-2008, 09:31 AM
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"is that a mullet? in 2008? wow! that alone is almost child abuse"
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12-16-2008, 09:36 AM
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Originally Posted by coreyfyfe  An interesting read: http://www.lehighvalleylive.com/toda...ily_angry.html
A grocery store refused to do the writing on a child's birthday cake for a family with some rather uncommon names for their kids.
It's toeing a line, but really I feel like you have to let people be stupid if they want to be stupid. I wonder how much the kids will appreciate their names when they grow up? | Wow, this was a role reversal from what I was expecting. I don't have a problem with a grocery store not wanting to put racially insensitive things on cakes. They have to do business, they have to deal with everyone seeing the cakes as they check out... Plus, the grocery store has the right to refuse service to anyone they want. It's a private business, not a public entity.
I wish I could run into a member of the Aryan nation like this in public. We'd have a few "words" and they'd leave with a better "understanding" of racial equality.
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12-16-2008, 09:36 AM
|  | that video LIES | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Northern California | | | Reminds me of when our local Police department's new building addition required removal of a large oak tree, & a lady chained herself & a child or two to said tree. Kids are great tools for pushing one's own strange ideas into the public's eye(paraphrasing Pinnocchio's Stromboli).
This might need to go in the Lobby, BTW.
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12-16-2008, 09:39 AM
|  | I'm a tumbler, born under punches | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Northern California | | | You name your kids "Adolph Hitler" and "Jocelynn Aryan Nation" and then complain about discrimination?
Oh the irony. |
12-16-2008, 09:40 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Edinburgh & Dundee, Scotland | | It isn't a right to get your name on cake! 
I do seriously feel sorry for the kids. Unless they change thier names, they are going to have hellish lives ahead of them. I dare say, it'll probably be a good thing if they have hellish lives, as they would no doubt end up as misaligned as thier own parents anyway.
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12-16-2008, 09:42 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Florida | | | They named their kid Adolf Hitler. That's cute.
I feel for the kid. I guess he could go by Adolf H. Campbell, or "Dolf" for short.
If it were my bakery, I would'a shook my head and did it.
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12-16-2008, 09:42 AM
|  | One lab accident away from being a supervillain | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Powder Springs, Ga | | The store has the right to refuse service. The people have the right to give their children offensive names and teach them offensive values.
Unfortunately you can't force people not to be a-holes.
Poor kids 
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12-16-2008, 09:48 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Wilmington, NC | | | I love the fact that the kid has a simultaneous mullet and Hitler hair part going on. Classy.
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12-16-2008, 09:49 AM
| | that video LIES | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Northern California | | | I can't wait for those kids to rebel.
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12-16-2008, 09:51 AM
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Young Adolf Hitler Campbell will be getting a cake from Wal-Mart this year.
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12-16-2008, 09:53 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Newark, NJ | | Okay yeah the parents are crazy...
But to play devils advocate...Just cause one guy did something really bad 60+ years ago does that mean we have to throw out a perfectly good name and a perfectly good mustache?
Also with any luck a name like that will cause the child to go through some serious doubting of his parents ideals early in life, sparking a teenage rebellion, a name change, a haircut and a disassociation with his ****** up lineage....then again he could be the next grand dragon  |
12-16-2008, 09:54 AM
| | that video LIES | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Northern California | | | Yeah, the kid has some great options, there...
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12-16-2008, 09:54 AM
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12-16-2008, 09:55 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Eh? | | | Put one's whole name on the cake? These parents wanted the attention.
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12-16-2008, 09:55 AM
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Originally Posted by Lesfunk Those parents could have benefitted from mandatory sterilization | -of their parents.
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12-16-2008, 09:55 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Yuma, Az | | | The company has a right to refuse service to these dolts. That's not political correctness. Political correctness would be the state deciding that they wouldn't legally recognize the kids' names, or removing them from the parent's home because naming their kids that way constituted child abuse.
Why couldn't the parents decorate the cake themselves? Names like that are for the ego-gratification of the parents, who obviously like the negative attention; it's sure not looking out for their kids' best interests. I wouldn't be surprised to find out that they'd tried to get the store to do it specifically to get a reaction, and would have been disappointed if the store had just done it and been quiet.
Poor kids. Unless the parents have some life-altering positive changes, those kids will be wrestling with their parents' legacy for their whole lives, whether they embrace it or not.
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12-16-2008, 09:57 AM
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Originally Posted by DudeistMonk But to play devils advocate...Just cause one guy did something really bad 60+ years ago does that mean we have to throw out a perfectly good name and a perfectly good mustache? | Agreed on that, it would be nice to have the Charlie Chaplin stache without the negative connotations. |
12-16-2008, 09:59 AM
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12-16-2008, 10:16 AM
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