Little ‘Adolf Hitler’ Denied Birthday Cake at New Jersey Grocery Store
The father of 3-year-old Adolf Hitler Campbell, denied a birthday cake with the child’s full name on it by one New Jersey supermarket, is asking for a little tolerance.
The store is wrong and the parents are idiots.
The Campbells’ other two children also have unusual names: JoyceLynn Aryan Nation Campbell turns 2 in a few months and Honszlynn Hinler Jeannie Campbell will be 1 in April.
Heath Campbell said he named his son after Adolf Hitler because he liked the name and because “no one else in the world would have that name.”
Aryan Nation and Hitler. Something has been left out of the story and I see 3 suspects in a yet to be committed double murder.
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How is the store wrong? They can choose who they wish to do business with and what that business entails. I wouldn’t make a cake with KKK or Swastikas on it and I wouldn’t expect the anyone to force me to.
I fail to see how that’s wrong.
I could understand it being called a bad business move, but honestly if my local supermarket was the one in this story, I’d frequent them just as much. Certain social behaviors should be shunned. We can argue until we’re blue in the teeth which behaviors are acceptable and those will change with the times, but I’m pretty sure the vast majority of the populace ain’t gonna care about some skinhead racist piece of shit not getting a birthday cake for his crotch fruit.
They’re wrong because in this day and age they could well get sued. They would then settle out-of-court ’cause they don’t want the expense and bad PR.
You did spot the missing element in the story. Obvious from the daughters middle name.
The parents are idiots. The store isn’t wrong. I agree with Robb. This may surprise some not-so- bright readers who think I want the government to right every wrong, and force property owners to accomodate every bizarre wish fantasy in the world, but, well, those folks aren’t so bright.
There is a difference between discrimination aimed at folks for what they are, and discrimination about the choices they make, whether rationally or irrationally. Nobody is born with the name Hitler Hitler Hitler, or whatever.
Yes, you can say that you support a person’s right to discriminate over anything whatsoever, but we’ve already had that argument, and you lost - a good long time ago, and, AFAIC, a damned good thing.
Instead, we don’t permit certain forms of discrimination - in other words, we guarantee an equality of access for people who otherwise would not have that access based on what they are, over which they have no control, and in so doing we raise the right of equality of access over the the right to discriminate.
But if you choose to be a moron, we don’t guarantee that you may force others to accommodate your state of moronhood.
I guess Heinrich Himmler and Adolf Eichmann were already taken.
Or maybe ol’ Heath didn’t think they had quite the right “sound” to them…
Sorry - the store is absolutely correct, I think; if threatened with a suit, their answer should be “Bring it, bozo.” I can’t imagine this causing the store any “bad PR,” either - how bad can it be to be recognized as being unwilling to participate in one “parent’s” idiocy? As to the expense - I’d think a lot of folks would go out of their way to do business with someone who’s willing to draw the line at said idiocy.