3 year old can't have his name on his birthday cake....wait'll you see what his name

Originally Posted by Spitfire

In this case I can see why this parent is just a prick, but the name Hitler shouldn't be forever ruined because it happens to be the name of one of history's biggest assholes. Eventually people need to get over it. 100 years from now are we will going to have this problem? A name is a name, most of them don't even have meaning behind anything. Look at the parents naming their kids Batman.

Well said. I was scrolling down, waiting to see someone post something logical
like this.
It's just a name, people. Get over it.

It's also just as lame that no one will sport that mustache anymore. It was cool when Charlie Chaplin had it. Then OMG, no one can have that style anymore because of Hitler. Pure bullsh*t.
Why do people have to stigmatize everything associated with one infamous person? For the longest time people were going around saying that Germany was "evil" because of that ONE man.
Madness.

[Drtooth]

If I wanted to be an ass to my kids, I'll legally change my last name to Johnson, and name my child Tufut.

Hope that's not too graphic.

[Ninjinister]

Originally Posted by Ryona

Well said. I was scrolling down, waiting to see someone post something logical
like this.
It's just a name, people. Get over it.

It's also just as lame that no one will sport that mustache anymore. It was cool when Charlie Chaplin had it. Then OMG, no one can have that style anymore because of Hitler. Pure bullsh*t.
Why do people have to stigmatize everything associated with one infamous person? For the longest time people were going around saying that Germany was "evil" because of that ONE man.
Madness.

It's because of the context. The parents are obviously not afraid to flaunt their Neo-Nazi beliefs, what with giving one kid the middle name of "Aryan Nation" and wanting swastikas on the cake (don't anyone start with the whole manji business... it's pretty clear what the symbols were supposed to represent). What's more, is twofold:

1) The decorator, according to DeathKnight, was willing to make a compromise.
2) Businesses have the right to refuse service to anyone. If they had flat-out said "no, we're not handling your order", the customer couldn't have done anything about it.

But instead, they go get their order filled elsewhere, and then go whining about it to anyone that will listen.

Look, I believe that having the name Adolf and/or Hitler automatically meaning the name bearer is associated malicious entity is about as laughable as saying President-Elect Obama is evil because his middle name is Hussein and his surname rhymes with Osama. But it's pretty clear what the parents have done in this case.

[Mecha Cow]

The world isn't going to suddenly forget about WWII - it is very hard not to associate that period with the name 'Adolf Hitler'. Besides, it's just a name; it's not like not being able to use it anymore is a great loss. Generalizations are bad, but this particular stigma really doesn't matter that much.

But in this case the point is moot anyway since the parents obviously named their kid in reference to Hitler the person.

[Sewer Bull]

Originally Posted by Ryona

Well said. I was scrolling down, waiting to see someone post something logical
like this.
It's just a name, people. Get over it.

It's also just as lame that no one will sport that mustache anymore. It was cool when Charlie Chaplin had it. Then OMG, no one can have that style anymore because of Hitler. Pure bullsh*t.
Why do people have to stigmatize everything associated with one infamous person? For the longest time people were going around saying that Germany was "evil" because of that ONE man.
Madness.

I think it has to do something with people who survived WW2 and are still alive. The memories of WW2 are still fresh.

If an American guy named his kids Osama-Bin-Laden Jones and Death-For-America Jones and organized a birthday party with a cake that has Koranic inscriptions on it and two burning WTC towers as candles (a perfect for a 2-year-old kid), I take even less people would agree that "it's just a name, get over it".

[Barkworm]

Haha, that comparison was beautiful, Rob.

[That Matt Guy]

Damn it someone already beat me to naming their child after Hitler! F*CK!

Wasn't there some news story about a couple somewhere wanting to name their son "Metallica" a few years ago?

[Leogeddon]

I LOLed as soon as I really got into it.