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In response to "it's a private business, don't they have the right of refusal? -- nm" by loosilu

Yeah, but honestly, they're not refusing on the basis of anything other than a name that's historically evil.

Posted by Will Hunting (aka JoeMetz) Dec 15 '08, 10:40

this isn't a request to "Kill all the Jews" or "Lynch the blacks."

the kid's name is Adolf Hitler. Rightly or wrongly, there's no equivalency that the store can argue it has if it prints any child's name on any cake.

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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

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Yeah, but honestly, they're not refusing on the basis of anything other than a name that's historically evil.

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