Congrats to the World’s Worst Parents
So I haven’t wrote anything in quite awhile, which I am trying to get better at, because of work and just other things in general. But it has been a rather slow day at work and I came across a story that just made me fume.
The story is of a NJ couple that were turned down by local grocery store Shop-Rite to write out their 3 year old son’s full name on a birthday cake. But when finding out that the child’s is Adolf Hitler Campbell then I think Shop-Rite management had a really good head on their corporation shoulders. Even more appalling is that this was not the first time the family had requested this done. They had been denied the two previous years the same thing but also wished swastikas added to the cake as well. The family eventually found a local Wal-Mart that would accomidate the dunderhead request.
The thing that just gets me about this is that the parents went on record as saying they named the kid as such to be unique because there would be no one else with that name. Being unique is fine and dandy, I really like the names Rocco and Kenta for my future offspring, but when using a name that is synonymous with such evil acts you deserve to have your children taken away. Oh yeah I did say children, meaning they have multiple offspring. Would you like to know their lovely names? Of course you do. They are JoyceLynn Aryan Nation Campbell and Honszlynn Hinler Jeannie Campbell. So they named their child Adolf Hitler to be unique yet have two other children with Nazi related names? Oh yeah I forgot to mention I have some beautiful land for sale in Maine. Anyone interested?
The mother and father go on to say that they were brought up to be hateful but do not wish their children to live that type of life, giving them those names they are well on their way to that. I have never seen such pure idiocy in my life. Even if I believed that these people wanted their children to not grow up to be hatemongers why would you just damn them away with those names. Firstly they will be ridiculed in school relentlessly. Then that ridicule could very well turn into violence once kids learn about the Holocaust. Some kids may not take kindly to having kids in their classes named Adolf and Arayan Nation. You just killed their chances of doing any better than you right at birth. But then again I really don’t believe a damn word these parents say about them wanting their children to be different from them.
I also must commend Shop-Rite for standing up against these people and not backing down. They could have very easily said yes to doing it and made their money but they said no. But Wal-Mart on the other hand….well I guess I’m not surprised by them. I have always been a huge opposer of Wal-Mart and this just adds to it. Instead of having some integrity they just cave in. This “morally upstanding” corporation that won’t carry parental advisory music because they think it is wrong has absolutely no problem with put the name of the leader of one of the world’s most horrific series of events on a birthday cake. Wal-Mart just continues to shoot itself in the foot time after time.
After this past week being in Pennsylvania I realized a few things about kids. I spent a good amount of time with my cousin’s daughter and saw how much she admired me. She liked being around me and liked me helping her with her homework and holding her hand when walking around. Kids are impressionable, especially at a young age, and if you act a certain way around your kids they are going to want to do it. These Campbell kids are going to grow up and realize what their names are and see that daddy denies that the Holocaust ever happened. Sure I would love nothing more to be proved wrong on this and see these kids grow up and denounce their names and become great people, but unfortunately growing up in the household that they do I just don’t see that happening.
Here are some links to stories about this.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081217/ap_on_fe_st/odd_hitler_cake
http://www.lehighvalleylive.com/today/index.ssf/2008/12/holland_township_family_angry.html
http://www.lehighvalleylive.com/warren-county/index.ssf?/base/news-0/122923112231930.xml&coll=3
