"I just figured that they're just names," Deborah Campbell said. "They're just kids. They're not going to hurt anybody."
Heath Campbell said some people like the names but others are shocked to hear them. "They say, 'He (Hitler) killed all those people.' I say, 'You're living in the wrong decade. That Hitler's gone,'" he said.
"They're just names, you know," he said. "Yeah, they (Nazis) were bad people back then. But my kids are little. They're not going to grow up like that."
"Other kids get their cake. I get a hard time," he said. "It's not fair to my children.
"How can a name be offensive?" he asked.
'Why not call the kid Peace?'
Robert M. Gordon, a clinical psychologist in Allentown, said the names would hurt the children.
"Certainly society is going to be hostile towards those kids, especially when they go to school," Gordon said.
More than that, he said, the children would be harmed by their parents' views.
"By the time they get to school, they will already have been damaged," Gordon said. "Any parent that would impose such horrific names on their children is mentally ill, and they would be affecting their children from the day they were born. Only a crazy person would do that."
For the record, I agree with Gordon's last statement. The Campbell's say it's just a name. Really? So is a swastika just a meeting of lines? And if that's the case, why hang one in every room of your house? The Campbells said they just wanted their kids to have unique names. There is such a thing as being unique without resorting to this. For example, NFL player D'Brickshaw Ferguson has a very unique name, and he wasn't named after a man who slayed hundreds of thousands of people.
The Campbells go on and on about how it's just a name, nobody should be offended, but really, who's going to believe that? The man has swastikas all over his house; his kids are named for prominent Nazis, or, in the case of Joycelynn, a prominent neo-Nazi movement; he wears boots worn by a former Nazi; they've got a skull in their foyer with a swastika on the forehead. Pardon my french here, but "just a name" my fucking ass.
Nevermind the father's jacked up view on things, what about his kids?
The Campbells, Morrison said, "might as well put a sign around their (the children's) neck that says bigot, racist, hatemonger. What's the difference? Why not call the kid Peace or Tranquility or Hope or Acceptance?
"It's doing them (the children) a tremendous disservice, and it's cruel that parents would place these names on children," he said. "It's a mark upon them. It sets them apart for ridicule, derision, attacks.
"The children at this age might not have an understanding of these names. But when they grow up, hopefully, they would want to distance themselves from them," he said. "If they come to identify with the ideology of Hitler, Himmler and the Aryan nations, their parents are launching them on a life of hatred."
I usually try to restrain myself from out-and-out judging people here, but this is just too much. These people are seriously messed up, and in all likelihood, should never have been allowed to have kids.
Heath is asking for a little "tolerance" according to msnbc, and swears that he is teaching his kids not to hate. They're not racist, according to him, they just don't believe in the mixing of races.
Heath, let me explain this to you: Until you're willing to start practicing a little tolerance, you shouldn't start asking it of other poeple.
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