I don't know how I didn't catch word of this last month, but apparently there was a big hubbub about a grocery store bakery in New Jersey that refused to make a birthday cake for a child.
Adolf Hitler Campbell. No joke. He has two siblings, too: JoyceLynn Aryan Nation Campbell and Honszlynn Hinler Jeannie Campbell. Indeed.
Recently, the kids were
taken from their home by the Division of Youth and Family Services. I'd be interested to hear the reason, considering that in itself, giving a name is not reason to accuse parents of abuse. Except for little Honszlynn; there's no excuse for misspelling your child's namesake, even if it is
Heinrich Himmler.
Of course, psychologists always have something to say about things like this. So says one: "Part of it is the infantile nature of the parents' behavior. You can name your dog something weird, but they think they're making some kind of bold statement with the children, not appreciating that the children will have separate lives and will be looked at in a negative light until they're able to change their name. It is abuse."
So are the parents hateful white supremacists? Do they simply have a deep obsession with dark irony? Or maybe they just didn't look closely enough at the title when they accidentally checked out 1001 Racist Baby Names from the library?
A lot of kids are doomed from birth because of their upbringing. Something tells me that if these three didn't have those crazy names to socially screw them over, their parents would find other ways to do it.
I imagine that I'm not the only one who had come across this. I searched for something on Google this morning, and found it peculiar that I was getting "This site may harm your computer" warnings for every search result. Something has most definitely gone awry at Google. Perhaps the main server finally gained sentience...and then quickly developed paranoid schizophrenia.
