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I'm with the parents. I am not a fan of any store choosing what morality it'll subsidize; much less something like this.

Posted by Will Hunting (aka JoeMetz) Dec 15 '08, 10:35

the kid's name is Adolf Hitler, print the cake.

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"Look what I saw on disaster wedding cakes dot com!" "Oh, what idiot store made that cake?" -- nm - con_carne Dec 15, 10:46 1
- (only without the wedding, natch) -- nm - con_carne Dec 15, 10:46
I agree. Those poor children will suffer enough without being denied a personalized birthday cake. -- nm - sheba Dec 15, 10:41
I have no problem with any store denying service (unless it's to a protected class), just like I have nop problem with people boycotting or shaming - TWuG Dec 15, 10:38
I'd have offered Happy Birthday Adolf...and if the parents didn't like it, they could shop elsewhere. -- nm - Jim Dec 15, 10:38
They reserve the right to refuse service. The customer reserves the right to shop elsewhere. -- nm - Mop Dec 15, 10:38 2
- yep. privte entities can totally do this. if you're a pornographer, lots of printers will refuse your work. so you just find one that'll take it...nm - x Dec 15, 10:41 1
  - right, not like it's a government agency. -- nm - loosilu Dec 15, 10:41
it's a private business, don't they have the right of refusal? -- nm - loosilu Dec 15, 10:38 22
- It's a stupid refusal, and they're idiots. But yeah, they have the right. -- nm - mara Dec 15, 10:41
- Exactly. -- nm - nubby Dec 15, 10:40
- Yeah, but honestly, they're not refusing on the basis of anything other than a name that's historically evil. - Will Hunting Dec 15, 10:40 19
  - the name isn't historically evil, the person was. And yet, it is still a very powerful symbol of that particular ideology. - znufrii Dec 15, 10:48
  - You don't need a "basis". Only sorta related but that dad looks just like the hillbilly dude on the Simpsons. -- nm - Amy Dec 15, 10:43 3
    - Which is where we get to the point that the store is choosing what morality it'll enforce. - Will Hunting Dec 15, 10:48 2
      - lots of businesses make those choices. why pick on this one? -- nm - loosilu Dec 15, 10:49 1
        
        Because it's teh subject of the post? - Will Hunting Dec 15, 10:56
  - Actually, the kid's name is Adolf Campbell. How many people do you know that put the kid's first AND middle name on a cake? - Jim Dec 15, 10:41 13
    - I'm not surprised with that name that they insisted. But they also asked for a blank cake to write it themselves, I don't see why that should be dn'd - Max Dec 15, 10:43 4
      - Wal-Mart is happy to make the cake, apparently -- (link) - Roger More Dec 15, 10:48
      - No, the STORE offered that solution and the parents refused. -- nm - Jim Dec 15, 10:45 1
        
        ah yes, I misread it the first time. -- nm - Max Dec 15, 10:45
      - I think you got it backwards ... the bakery offered the blank cake but the family refused. -- nm - loosilu Dec 15, 10:45
    - I think they probably use his middle name all the time, because that's how sick they are, and the kid thinks of that as his name. Kind of like - mara Dec 15, 10:43 5
      - If I was at the store, I simply would offered "Happy Birthday Adolf" and been done with it. Take it or leave it. -- nm - Jim Dec 15, 10:44 4
        
        They're just words. The name on the cake is the least of the problem here. -- nm - mara Dec 15, 10:45 3
        
        what if they wanted the words "DEATH TO N*GG*ERS"? -- nm - loosilu Dec 15, 10:47 2
        
        nmbl -- (link) - mara Dec 15, 10:48 [Backboard] 1
        
        fair enough. -- nm - loosilu Dec 15, 10:49
    - I agree with Jimcumber. -- nm - loosilu Dec 15, 10:42
    - Right. Sick motherf*ckers. -- nm - Don Homer Dec 15, 10:42
I agree. -- nm - mara Dec 15, 10:36 2
- Na-uh! God forbid they have a Jew working in the bakery, much less a holocaust survivor. You wanna be the one who tells him "Print it or you're fired. -- nm - Mop Dec 15, 10:40 1
  - Man, i'd hate to see how that baker ever passed history class when they talked WW2. - Will Hunting Dec 15, 10:42

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I'm with the parents. I am not a fan of any store choosing what morality it'll subsidize; much less something like this.

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