i don’t even know where to start with this one y’all.
Heath and Deborah Campbell have three children: JoyceLynn Aryan Nation Campbell, Honszlynn Hinler Jeannie Campbell and Adolf Hitler Campbell.
nice, right?
well, young Adolf Hitler Campbell is celebrating his third birthday this week. and this has caused a huge problem because the ShopRite where his parents went to get his birthday cake refused to write "Happy Birthday Adolf Hilter" on the cake for the Campbells.
"We believe the request … to inscribe a birthday wish to Adolf Hitler is inappropriate," said Karen Meleta, a ShopRite spokeswoman. The supermarket offered to make the cake and leave space for the parents to write whatever message they wished.
The Campbells are upset…"ShopRite can’t even make a cake for a 3-year-old," said Deborah Campbell, 25, "That’s sad." They chose to have their cake done at Wal-Mart instead. Anna Taylor, a spokeswoman for Wal-Mart said the store won’t put anything illegal or profane on a cake but thinks it’s important to respect the views of customers and employees. Says Taylor, "Our No. 1 priority in decorating cakes is to serve the customer to the best of our ability."
Others, however, are applauding this decision. "Might as well put a sign around their (the children’s) neck that says bigot, racist, hatemonger," said Anti-Defamation League director Barry Morrison. "What’s the difference? It’s doing them (the children) a tremendous disservice, and it’s cruel that parents would place these names on children," he said. "It’s a mark upon them. It sets them apart for ridicule, derision, attacks. The children at this age might not have an understanding of these names. But when they grow up, hopefully, they would want to distance themselves from them. If they come to identify with the ideology of Hitler, Himmler and the Aryan nations, their parents are launching them on a life of hatred."
What do you think about this? Do you think a name is just a name and the ShopRite should have gone ahead and made it for the Campbells, regardless of whether they are racists or not? or do you think the supermarket has the right not to fill this request?
(ps. as a child of two grandparents who survived the Auschwitz and Dachau camps…i think my opinion on this is obvious)
(this makes Bronx Mowgli look like an AWESOME name)
i agree with shoprite – if they want a birthday cake for that kid, they can make it themselves.
“this makes Bronx Mowgli look like an AWESOME name”
I am cracking up at this one!
I posted my opinion on another site (LJ) and think both sides missed the OBVIOUS solution – JUST PUT THE FIRST NAME ONLY ON THE CAKE; the store has the right to say it is inappropriate, and the parents are not fucking morons about the consequences of what they named their child (HELLO
I’m speechless over this. First of all that their kids would bear such names …I’m shuddering at them! I can’t imagine what they’ll face growing up. Perhaps therapy.
Shoprite is practicing discrimination. Parents have the right to name their children whatever they wish, as well as imbue them with ALMOST whatever belief system they deem appropriate. The anti-defamation league are a bunch of nazis in their own right anyways. They are the last group of individuals who should be speaking on the subject.
Yet another reason to NOT shop at Wall Mart. I read where one of the other kids has Arian Nation In it’s name. Yet I guess it takes all kinds and they are free to name their offspring as they best see fit.Wish I was free to knock him in the teeth, and take him to a cynagaoge (SP) for a lesson.
I hope his white trash 15 minutes are worth it
Go ShopRite! That is just plain sick.