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Parents Named Their Son "Hitler"...Not Racist
Posted by lotusb • 12/17/08 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
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Read Headline: news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081217/ap_on_fe_st/odd_hitler_cake;_ylt=AkHVOW8GplMPY...
I don't know what to ask, but....thoughts???
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Yeah, really... reminds me of that old Johnny Cash line, "Billy, George! Anything but Sue!"-
That's exactly what I was thinking too!
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What has happened to the naming of children?!
Hitler? Did they not think that the kid would be forever scarred by that name? I mean, he's only one of the worst dictators in our history, following Pol Pot, Lenin, and Mussolini.
Why not name him any of those names?
*shakes head*
Edit:
Karen Meleta, a spokeswoman for ShopRite, said the Campbells had similar requests denied at the same store the last two years and said Heath Campbell previously had asked for a swastika to be included in the decoration.
Yeah, A name's just a name, and a name with he accompanying swastika means nothing!
HOld on, more edit:
The Campbells' other two children also have unusual names: JoyceLynn Aryan Nation Campbell turns 2 in a few months and Honszlynn Hinler Jeannie Campbell will be 1 in April.-
Er, wrong Lenin. I think you wanted the one less likely to Give Peace a Chance.
I met a girl who named her son Damien Krueger. She liked horror movies.
People will name their kids anything. -
Woah...what did John Lennon do?
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beat me to it, Thriftshop
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Oops I edited it....
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Yea the other kids are just as bad. And the remark about his kids being allowed to hang out with Black people is HILARIOUS!
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Oh I know! Well, that's his choice...
WTF?
Nah, they're not racist.... Holy crap.
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You guys are slow... I already blogged about this today.
pointlessbanter.net/2008/12/17/it’s-not-like-i-named-my-kid-adolph-hitler...
Wait until you see the additional pictures the yahoo article didn't include-
Nicely done post, Banter!
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Gracias... I forgot to point out in the post that Walmart did make the cake for the kid. You can always trust them to do the morally correct thing... ugh.
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That made so much more sense than the Yahoo article.
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What's really sad is when you look at the picture, that little boy is amazingly cute.
Maybe he'll legally change his name when he gets older.-
He has a mullet. His parents should be removed from his life for that alone.
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Well, toddler hair has a mind of it's own. Punky had an unintentionally mullet for a while too. It happens, you can't change it until real hair grows in
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I almost don't know how to reply. Sick & demented are the 1st two words that come to mind. What is wrong with people or, more importantly, the world today? -
I think they have set their child up for a lot of problems and it boggles my mind why they would do that. -
Like any other child with a weird name, the kids is going to get picked on and teased. If he decides to ever have short hair or go bald, he's going to be labeled a KKK member or skinhead. Most of the teasing will probably come once his age group learns about the war and holocaust, probably in high school. Other parents are going to whisper and talk behind his and his parents back, maybe even forbidding their kids to play or associate with him. The way everyone else will react and interact with him will be slightly negative, even if they are trying to keep an open mind.-
My husband's family is German, and in school once they learned of Hitler and World War II and all of the atrocities....man he went through a lot BS.
And that was without having parents naming their kids Adolf Hitler and Aryan Nation. Their children will unfortunately be the victims of a lot of harassment
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Most times I'm not shocked by the antics of the wacky but this takes the cake, no pun intended. Why would they think that people wouldn't get a tad hot under the collar.
Given their other child Aryan Nation, and they deny the whole racist thing at least be proud of your beliefs no matter how ridiculous, maybe the kid won't need counseling he'll be so brainwashed he might actually like his name. Or he could be so jacked up by the loser-ness of his parents and need heavy doses of medication. It could be worse not sure how but I am sure it could be worse.-
Yep the denial of the race thing, hum! they think people are stupid like them?
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Yeah the swastika tattoo on his hand isn't racist either *shakes head* I mean...really.
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@Anok & Jafabrit, what everyone's not getting swastika tatts to show their absolute love and affection for those of other races. Or at least that's what the residents of Pennsyltucky obviously want us to believe.
I do like the backwards wife's comments that the sad thing about this story is that Shoprite denied a three yr old a b-day cake. Yeah it breaks me up inside sort of like I don't know naming your kid after an insane murderer. -
If the tattoo was backwards and not tilted up in it's side, they would be right. It was originally a Hindu symbol for love and peace, that Hitler perverted to become the ultimate symbol of hatred....
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These parents have an beligerent, in-your-face attitude and they think it's funny, maybe even a little exiciting, to be extrememly inappropriate. They think they're fooling everyone and they are fooling no one. Too bad the kid will be the victim in all this. Maybe he'll change his name when he's old enough but that won't erase the years of being ostracized. And I fear the skin heads and KKK folks are going to try to recruit and brainwash him over to the dark side of the force. (not that the parents aren't going to try this as well).
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Uh hello... they have swastikas all over the house. It isn't an in your face attitude it is flat out racism.
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You don't think he is already being groomed and that he isn't already in the hands of kkk folks?
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I know a black (American) guy named Adolph. It's not as bad as Hitler, but I'm sure most people think of Adolf Hitler when they hear his name.-
Adolph is a popular name, so I am not sure there is an automatic association with Hilter.
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There should be boycotting and people with signs and posters in front of the Walmart that did finally make the cake! The news should get involved. Walmart is white supremist, anything for a buck!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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yeah really... walmart is not racist because they made a cake. The family is ridiculous for naming thier child that and setting him up for the years of torture he is about to endure. But is that any reason to have wal-mart discriminate against the name?? The cake department at wal-mart is in the business of making cakes, not baby name judging.
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Walmart regularly judges and activelya voids selling any and all products they disagree with.
They will not sell movies or CD's with explicit lyrics or sexual content (no matter how mild) They will sell the censored versions, however.
They limit their books, and any and all products with unsavory content.
Yet they sell guns, and make cakes with Adolf Hitler and swastikas on it.
Erm...
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Can you imagine that kid going for a job when he is older.
Adolf Hitler- "So as I say I think I have all the correct qualifications and think I would be a great addition to your team."
Interviewer- "Errrrrrrr... we're really sorry Mr Hitler..... you are immensely qualified for this position but we don't think you would be a suitable tour guide for our Holocaust museum." -
I know a couple of guys named Adolf.. don't think they have such problem
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@Bookishmichael, I get the feeling that Adolf isn't really the problem, I'm leaning hard toward the combination of Adolf and Hitler.
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They named their daughter JoyceLynn Aryan Nation Campbell. One can only hope that the kids will be smarter than their parents. -
I'd like to know who puts a kid's FULL name on their birthday cake, unless they're proud of it and want to make a statement?
If they'd just had the cake say, "Happy birthday Adolf" it might never have raised a flag.
Sounds like someone wants their 15 minutes.-
Or even just "Happy birthday mein Fuhrer" No one would have been any the wiser.
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"And do you have little plastic tanks you can put on the top instead of birthday candles?"
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@TSR I tend to agree with your theory, these people can't be that dense, although...
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They had the little plastic tanks all over the icing map of Europe, it was actually when they asked them to put the little tanks on the iced Polish border that the shop got suspicious.
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Faith- Yup-- how many of us have had our first and middle names put on our birthday cake as kids?
I bet hardly any. It's for reaction. It sounds like they weren't getting that notoriety and exposure with the previous requests they made (wanting swastikas added, etc.), so they upped the ante a bit. -
We have a winner!!!
Why you so smart Jen?
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I'd just like to know what they thought it would accomplish. Christmas cards from the KKK?
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Fame, and a one in the win column for white supremacists nationwide.
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Can you imagine when she has to call him in for his dinner she will be stood on her doorstep shouting "Adolf!!!!Adolf!!!! Adolf Hitler get your arse here right now or there is no dessert for you tonight!!!"
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I totally agree - just the first name would have been fine and none of this would have happened.
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Has anyone else noticed that the parents got Himmler's name wrong? (for Adolf's sister - they named her Hinler)
I also wrote a post on this today. Couldn't resist it:
cosmopolite-kaffeeklatsch.blogspot.com/2008/12/i-feel-sorry-for-adolf-hitle...-
There was a sauerkraut stain on the Himmler page of their copy of "My first Nazi pop up book"
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LOL! Thanks for the laugh =D
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If the kid grows strong in character, he won't have a problem with the name.
Usually strong characters are built during childhood by excessive bullying.
The spirit and character of a human shouldn't hide behind a name.
A name is just a name, but the character behind the name speaks volumes.
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Or he'll turn into that kid who sits on the school rooftop at graduation with a sniper rifle and a scope.
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It's always possible...we even have kids like in Columbine who's parents have a good life,
their kids have a good life, yet their kids turn out to be mass murderers.
How the heck can a parent not know that their kids are building bombs down in the basement of their own house?
We have lots of kids with great names, from good homes, that still turn out bad.
Those are the ones we are so shocked about because we didn't expect them to become rotten apples, yet they did and they snuck by us because we didn't expect their good name to tarnish.
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I really dislike people who use children to make an adult statement, which is what they are doing! Ugh! -
My name was Hitler, but changed later. -
The supermarket could have write just "Adolf" instead of "Adolf Hitler" in the cake. -
Reminds me of the COPS clip that a elderly black lady was having problems with skinhead neighbors across the street. At the end of the clip, a cop asked her whats the name of the bird she had in her house and she replied replied "hitler" and that got the cops by surprise. -
There needs to be a sensibility test before people have children
Why couldn't they just call him dickhead, his life would be easier
My daddy left home when I was three
Didn't leave much for ma and me
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Those parents--well--they probably just should not be parents. -
tyler is right.
With those parent in charge of the upbringing. The name will be the least of this kids problems.
I predict long jail terms, or 50k in therapy. Maybe both. -
I really feel sorry for that kid. -
How come this is not child abuse? Names should also be child abuse. Time for some law changes. -
Now that I think about it, I think Stalin would have been catchier.
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The best part of the whole story was when the father asked for folks to show "a little bit of tolerance."
I suppose it's too much of us to ask that he show "a little bit of restraint" before naming his children after absurd racial fantasies (i.e., "aryan nation") and/or mass murderers.
Poor kid though...imagine receiving his college application, or job application?
In my heart of hearts, I hope he falls madly in love with a young Jewish girl and his parents go insane from the "betrayal."
Besides...naming kids after nazi inspired themes/figures is so last year - the new rage is to name folks after Teenwolf characters.-
They could have called him Mr Ed, or even better Mrs Ed
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LOL!
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Michael Hart gave Hitler the 39th ranking in his book "100 most influential people in history" and now the there is a kid named after him, I don't see the irony here.-
@farazahmed
Adolf Hitler was the most evil person person ever to exist on Planet Earth...He caused the deaths of hundreds of millions of human beings...
If not for the courage of the millions of world war 2 volunteer soldiers who sacrificed their lives to stop him it is unlikely many of us would even be alive today to read your ridiculous disrespectful comment...
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Could be worse. He could've been called Karl Marx or Che Guevara. -
What is really mind-boggling is how a U.S.A. government agency could allow these sick morons to name their children in this vulgar disrespectful racist manner and why these children have not been rescued from these sick evil moronic hate mongering parents...
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The problem with that is naming your child something abnormal or hideous or abhorrent isn't child abuse. Neither is raising your child to have the same beliefs as you do - no matter how good or vile those beliefs may be.
If we were to legislate things like the naming of children, or the rearing of children's belief systems we would open up a whole new world of intolerance towards individual freedoms.
I agree that naming their children such vile things as Adolph Hitler and Aryan Nation is cruel and unusual. It is not abuse, however. We can only hope that other family members or friends with some sense will step in and help the children, or the kids will break free from their parent's ignorance and hatred and change their names and live normal hate-free lives. -
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A hate crime against who?
No, bad names and horrible belief systems are not criminal, no matter how badly we want them to be. -
@Anok
"A hate crime against who?"
This is a hate crime against humanity...
"Horrible belief systems" are criminal when the people who hold these horrible belief systems try to influence others to share their beliefs...
These vermin parents put the promotion of hate organizations above the welfare and future of their children and should be prosecuted and their children taken away from them...
This is not a human rights issue like gay marriage etc. This is the promotion of a sick dangerous group of potential phycopathic killers who claim to be superior and believe that blacks, jews and other people by virtue of their race who are inferior should be exterminated...
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I am defending their right to freedom of thought, expression and speech.
Why?
Because if we take away theirs, yours and mine will be next. What would you do if a large enough group of people decided to take offense of your religion? What if they convinced others it was hateful, and vile? Right now, they couldn't stop you from practicing it, or teaching it to your children - but if you had already criminalized certain types of thought and expression and speech - then they would have the precedent set to take away yours.
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@Anok
"Just think, would you like someone to take away your children because they thought your ideas were wrong?"
These ideas are criminal...Exterminating humans because you feel they are inferior is a crime...
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The people in question are not exterminating anyone. They have hateful ideas - as do many people in the US. It is perfectly legal for them to think, and speak those ideas.
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What is the crime? Next thing you'd want to arrest everyone named Paul from their parents because it sounds like Pol Pot. How about everyone named Rudolf because it's the same name as Rudolf Hess? Are their parents committing a hate crime against humanity? Should we stop singing Rudolf the Reindeer at Christmas time? What about parents who name their kids Joseph, because it's the same name as Joseph Stalin? How close should the match be before it's a hate crime against humanity to name your child after a historical figure?
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@flamingpoodle
Frankly I am not surprised that people who base their conclusions on the origin of mankind by breeding fruit flies and who think a foetus is a giraffe or not human would be trumpeting the rights of white supremists...
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those parents should go to jail!
the kid will get bullied for sure, freakin cruel faith-
Jail? On what charge?
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Adolf Hitler is a cool name....but he is not Adolf Hitler...different parents, different nation, different education, different social environment, different schoolmate, different food, different economical situation...he is DAMN different ! So its cool to have a name like Adolf Hitler
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Do you have someone that looks after you?
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@hadrian1407
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No...it's not cool.
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@ttiger
The extermination of six million Jews is not a joke...
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This is a crazy topic. I know this guy (the father) well knew him when I was in high school. No I was not friends with him but I knew him.-
Holy crap...for real?
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Yeah I wish I was making this up! A good friend of mine just encountered them not long ago too. He was very strange back in the day too. I never met his wife though she looks familiar.
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Stupid people out to get attention we'd be wise to ignore them but of course we won't.
The grocers has the right to refuse if these people were wise they'd just have gone and gotten the stuff and written the kids name on the cake themselves.-
As a result of the outcry, Walmart seems to be reviewing their policies.
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Imagine you are Susan Sarandon and your caterer puts 'Happy Birhtday SS!' on your cake. Next thing the thought police comes sliding through your window, abseiling from helicopters to arrest you for a hate crime against humanity...
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FP, most places know the difference between initials for a name, and a family insisting that a child's whole name be used - who happens to be named Adolph Hitler, with swastikas on the cake.
See what I mean?
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The child's full name is not Adolf Hitler, it is Adolf Hitler Campbell.
Some people seem not to know the difference between Adolf Hitler Campbell and Adolf Hitler, so I won't be surprised if Susan Sarandon gets arrested in that case. That is, if we lived in a society where thoughtcrime was a crime.
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and that is the reason why we have movies on serial killers and stuff. Ed Gein must have inspired a dozen of directors, how cool is that
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I presume you have seen this?
www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/11/25/benito.italy.name.ap/
about right wing italians paying people to name their kids after mussolini?
Useless fact: my first proper boyfriend had middle name of Adolf - he was black. His dad had a sense of humour. I went on to marry P W Botha.-
Is that offer valid for British citizens?
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You know I don't think it is. Are you expecting?
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Not in the near future but if I can add some ready cash to my council house and poor persons allowance it all helps.
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I guess you could pretend to be living in rural italy and pretend to give birth, you might be on to a winner
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Well this is why we have a European union isn't it?
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True enough. Go for it. Hell, why not have twins?
I;m sure there will be lots of bloody forms to fill in, but.-
Well that's the function of the poor, we the are machines that make the middle class viable.
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really? I;ve been looking for a way to become viable. Come over and see me sometime.
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Blimey. You have SEEN my breasts? Good god. Have you been on Youporn again?
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Your empty breasts for Darfur appeal was broadcast during my empty heads in 'ull appeal.
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Have you been drinking?
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Course it's Friday.
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I have two blog posts on this from my Families in the News blog...
One on this specific situation on Wednesday: familiesinthenews.blogspot.com/2008/12/boy-named-adolf-hitler-denied-birthd...
And one from back on October 17 featuring the girl named, "Talula Does the Hula From Hawaii" in a case where such names were ruled by the court to be a form of abuse (in New Zealand): familiesinthenews.blogspot.com/2008/10/new-zealand-some-names-are-so-weird....
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I wonder if those people know that any living relatives of Hitler and all their descendants changed their own names and never spoke about their relation to Hitler.
Why would two random people pick to torture their children. Not even Hitler's own family want to be a Hilter!-
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Digging this up from the archives. Apparently the child and his two sisters have been taken by authorities.
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Csuinatc - that whole incident is on another discussion...
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you should start a new thread
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If i did that.. Timethief will jump down my throat.. lol
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pfft... i got your back besides if you explain that this is a follow on in the description you should be fine, its only annoying when people ressurect a thread to add one word, or that people will continue a thread that lost stem like 3 months before hand or when people create threads that are exactly the same as a thread that has been created before
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Why would she jump down your throat, unless they are the moderators of said BC discussion session, then you should ignore people who would do such a thing. With that said, I dont think TT would care.
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Nothing to do with racsim. Its all about abuse of the innocent. -
I dont care if it was racist or not, they ruined their childs life. Probably were going to breed that child to become a racist leader or some racist organization. But personally I think its racist.
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Perhaps his brother Osama Bin Laden II should get some sympathy too. -
A lot of the holocaust deniers claim that they aren't racist.
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