Store Refuses To Make Cake for Toddler Adolf Hitler
Oh, the hardships of being a white supremecist. Heath and Deborah Campbell tried to get ShopRite and a local grocery store to make a birthday cake for their three-year-old, named Adolf Hitler. And they actually wanted the cake to say “Happy Birthday Adolf Hitler” (I guess just using “Adolf” was out of the question, hmmm?) But apparently they are so persecuted that the stores refused, though the grocer did offer to leave room for their own inscription. The story has some awesome quotes, like Deborah lamenting how sad it is the store can’t make a cake for a kid, and Heath saying, “Other kids get their cake. I get a hard time. It’s not fair to my children. How can a name be offensive?”
Um, yeah. I have no idea. Oh, and believe it or not, ShopRite won’t make a cake for their two-year-old either. Her name? JoyceLynn Aryan Nation Campbell. Oh boy. By the way, Wal-Mart is willing to do the cake.
A psychologist quoted in the story says he believes the names will cause problems for the kids later in life. Hmm, ya think? But he also points out that the parents’ views are kinda likely to damage the kids too. Oh, and that any problems they face in school later “would be icing on the cake.” Get it? Icing? Riiiight.
Of course Adolf and siblings live in a house decorated with swatstikas, but the Campbells insist the swatstika “doesn’t really
have a meaning. It’s just a symbol.” Just a name, a symbol, and a few kids who are gonna have a rough road. Seems like an inscribed cake might be the least of it.
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No more child abuse than idiots who name their kid Neveah.
I feel so sorry for these kids. Poor babies!
Let’s hope these kids grow up and legally change their own names. As for the cake, for Pete’s sake, order a decorated cake and use one of those icing tubes to write what you want to at home. We do this all the time, because often stores don’t get the spelling right, no matter how carefully I spell the name out on the little forms.
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.
WHY DO YOU HATE IT WHEN OTHERS SPEAK THE TRUTH IN THEIR HEARTS?
You know, as a (former) social worker I generally hate the standard “that’s child abuse!” cry to any parenting decision that isn’t strictly mainstream, but in this case, I fully agree.
That’s child abuse…
“just a symbol?” Right, which, by definition, symbolizes something.
It’s so sad to look at that little 3 yr old boy and think about what his life will be like. What a shame! It’s not his fault that his parents are such awful people.
They are from Pa. for Christ’s sake!!
Would I be opening a can of worms by inquiring whether these people are competent to be parents? And should the state have stepped in when they tried to put these names on birth certificates? I know you could never use a name like Hitler on a personalized license plate, and I seem to recall a state that refused a guy’s request to use whatever the word was for the poison the Germans used to kill millions of innocent people in the gas chambers (forgive me for not looking it up but I don’t feel like having a Google search for that item show up in my name).
I find it hard to believe that they are that ignorant. They clearly are loving the attention that this has generated and have probably helped let the media know about their “plight”. Unfortunately these kids are being raised this way and may turn out as bigoted and racist as their family. I truly hope not though.
Yet another reason for me not to shop at Walmart.
yeesh, I feel bad for anyone else named Campbell! And there’s a lot of them!