Family angry because supermarket won't inscribe cake to son, Adolf Hitler

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rocketpig said:

The parents might be bigots, racists, and completely fucking stupid, but where is the ACLU in situations like this?

That organization used to actually stand for something... Now it's just a liberalist agenda bullshit group that covers the people it likes and ignores those it doesn't... It's been years since I saw them fight for someone whose rights were being infringed upon and who also happened to be an ignorant, racist fucktard. They're a long way from the days of Skokie, Illinois vs. Neo-Nazis.

/end rant on ACLU.

Businesses do have the right to serve whom they please and how, but basing it from a name alone is sketchy, at best.

You may think these people are horrible for naming their kids what they did and for having the beliefs they do - but they deserve the same rights as anyone else. Would you look so kindly on that Shop-Rite if they started refusing to make birthday cakes for kids with Muslim names?

If you see a difference... I have a question to ask you. Who made you judge, jury, and executioner on other peoples' beliefs? Just curious.

There's actually a big difference between the real situation with that store and your little hypothetical one.  Writing a cake adressed to Adolf Hitler could concievably hurt sales.  Who wants to go to a store that supports Hitler, the Nazis, etc.?  Of course, that's not what's really going on, but it could easily be percieved as such by someone who just hears about it in passing.  Their decision not to serve them can not be proven to based solely on that family's beliefs.  It can very easily be argued that the store believed serving them would hurt sales in general, and thus refused to do so.  It's hard to argue that when it's a Muslim name.  In fact, not serving them would probably do just as much damage as serving someone advocating nazism.