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ShopRite Goes All PC On Cake Decoration

December 16th, 2008 • Related • Filed Under
By nemski

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Von Cracker, a friend of Delaware Liberal pointed us to this outrage  (via DailyKos): ShopRite will not personalize a cake for a Pennsylvania family whose son turned 3. Oh yeah, the son’s name is Adolf Hitler Campbell. What’s this world coming to when a small child cannot even celebrate his birthday without the PC police stepping in?

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There Are 31 Responses So Far. »

  1. Comment by delawaredem on 16 December 2008 at 1:07 pm:

    Actually….

    This is not an example of Political Correctness, in my opinion. This is more akin to pharmacists refusing to fill birth control prescriptions due to their personal religious or political beliefs.

    Thus, the right wing should not complain too loudly.

    I must say…. I am with Shop Rite on this one. If they want a cake with the name “Adolf Hitler” on it, they can buy it somewhere else or make it themselves. I understand the slippery slope argument, but come on. Hitler killed 6 million. He deserves not to have his name on a cake.

    And that brings me to the parents? Who the hell are these people? Why in the hell would they ever name their son after the most evil human that ever existed? I don’t care if it is family tradition.

  2. Comment by nemski on 16 December 2008 at 1:11 pm:

    BTW, if it wasn’t obvious, I was being incredibly snarky on this post. I was going to post the picture of the loon of the father, but I didn’t want to encroach on copyright violations. Follow the link and take a look at the moron.

    That all being said, my son and I were in a conversation about Hitler. I said to my boy that Hitler was so evil that he made the name Adolf disappear. Guess I got to take that back.

  3. Comment by nemski on 16 December 2008 at 1:14 pm:

    Here’s the link to the picture.

  4. Comment by delawaredem on 16 December 2008 at 1:22 pm:

    I know, but still.

  5. Comment by jason330 on 16 December 2008 at 1:28 pm:

    This made me laugh. It is like he named his kids in order to get into fights with the ShopRite.

  6. Comment by Mrs XStryker on 16 December 2008 at 1:33 pm:

    I saw this posted on a Jewish discussion group over on LJ. It’s ridiculous. I mean these parents are dispicable people for more than just being supremacist jerks. The names they’ve given their children completely ensure that NO ONE who doesn’t agree with their politics will ever talk to their children. My favorite comment on the other discussion however was “Hey, I’d like you to meet my daughter, Rachel Jewish National Fund Stein!”

  7. Comment by Von Cracker on 16 December 2008 at 1:39 pm:

    Great Odin’s Raven…those poor kids don’t have a chance!

    Personally, I have no problem with the name Adolf (Addie, are you ok? Are you ok, Addie?), but that mullet has to go!

    The way I see it is a little different than you, DD. I don’t think it’s like a pharmacist not dishing out RU486 pills or whatever based on religious beliefs. To me, it’s like aiding obscenity…made to be a part of someone else’s sick joke.

    Imagine if the cake decorator’s Jewish, Polish, or worse…a gypsy! ;-)

  8. Comment by Satan H. Plotnick on 16 December 2008 at 1:46 pm:

    You think THAT kid’s got problems…

  9. Comment by Unstable Isotope on 16 December 2008 at 2:06 pm:

    There was a hockey player with the last name of Satan (Suh-TAN) on the Buffalo Sabres for a while. I always got a kick out of seeing him skating around on TV.

    I feel sorry for that kid, imagine being stuck with a name like that. I doubt many people are on the parent’s side on this one. Will they name their daughter Eva Braun?

  10. Comment by Von Cracker on 16 December 2008 at 2:13 pm:

    Miroslav Satan….appropriately enough, was a center for the NJ Devils.

    Always got a kick out of seeing this on ESPN’s scroll at the bottom of the screen:

    Devils goal by Gomes (14); assist from Satan (7).

    :-D

  11. Comment by Von Cracker on 16 December 2008 at 2:14 pm:

    Penalty on Satan, 5 for fighting.

  12. Comment by anon on 16 December 2008 at 2:16 pm:

    I wonder if they would make a cake for Barack Hussein Obama.

  13. Comment by Mrs XStryker on 16 December 2008 at 2:21 pm:

    @UI,

    They already have two daughters – Joycelynn Aryan Nation and Honszlynn Hinler Jeannie.

  14. Comment by h. on 16 December 2008 at 2:26 pm:

    I went to school with a girl named Shanda Lear.

  15. Comment by Truth Teller on 16 December 2008 at 2:40 pm:

    Not worth a comment

  16. Comment by Brian Shields on 16 December 2008 at 2:57 pm:

    I went to school with a kid named Justin Case

  17. Comment by Victor Yuschenko on 16 December 2008 at 5:27 pm:

    This does not bode well for the upcoming 5th birthday of my beloved son, Lee Harvey Himmler-Columbine.

  18. Comment by Joanne Christian on 16 December 2008 at 5:32 pm:

    Just give ‘em the darn cake, but don’t accept food stamps as payment. Remember Mrs. Hitler was a mother too!

  19. Comment by G Rex on 16 December 2008 at 6:22 pm:

    This dude I was in the army with was named Kerry Katzenmeyer. Three guesses what his middle initial was?

  20. Comment by nemski on 16 December 2008 at 6:30 pm:

    my boy says that they should have called him Chicken Noodle Soup

  21. Comment by Charles Manson Bundy on 16 December 2008 at 6:35 pm:

    Do not understand the store policy here

  22. Comment by Joanne Christian on 16 December 2008 at 6:41 pm:

    You don’t have to Charlie–here take the cake now please.

  23. Comment by liz on 16 December 2008 at 7:35 pm:

    Maybe Americans will reconsider naming their sons, George.

  24. Comment by Unstable Isotope on 16 December 2008 at 7:54 pm:

    Perhaps I should reconsider my plan to name my future children John Wayne Gacy and Ted Bundy.

  25. Comment by Joanne Christian on 16 December 2008 at 8:31 pm:

    You don’t have to UI, unless of course you order their cake. Otherwise, you better stick with George.

  26. Comment by Not Brian on 16 December 2008 at 8:52 pm:

    I came out of a very similar environment. I grew up in North West Jersey about a half-hour from this mental patient’s home town.

    I went to high school with people like this guy…

    I went to high school with a guy named Rudy (Rudolph) Hess (a very nice guy by the way).

    My local A&P would have given them the cake.

    This is what I think of when I hear people like Palin talk about ‘Real America’.

  27. Comment by JohnnyX on 16 December 2008 at 9:25 pm:

    When I taught high school I had a kid in one of my classes whose first and middle name were Justin Time.

    It was an ironic name for sure…

  28. Comment by Rich Boucher on 16 December 2008 at 9:30 pm:

    I have half a mind to do some research and call the Child Protective Services Agency nearest to this family and report this waste of life who would name his child such horrible things.

  29. Comment by Shoe Throwing Instructor on 16 December 2008 at 9:55 pm:

    Recsntly been getting a lot of flack about my name, but old Shoe doesn`t let it get me down.

  30. Comment by Joanne Christian on 16 December 2008 at 10:00 pm:

    I guess the kid could always say, “Just call me Beav”

  31. Comment by Suzanne on 17 December 2008 at 8:27 pm:

    I wrote about that on my blog (before seeing it here – http://redwaterlily.com/?p=174)….

    I am German and to think that I hated growing up with the initials SS……

    I used to joke that my initials were illegal in Germany – but to be honest it really bothered me that they had such negative emotions attached to them – so I actually did not take my maiden name back until I decided to add a middle name and tued SS into SES – not perfect but a lot better!

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