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• yeah, so it would seem: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0808/12669.html
  (posted to Breaking: Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones on life support)
• Thanks guys for hosting a sweet happy hour! Chi Cha is super chill and awesome. Can't wait for the next
  (posted to Reminder: Feministing/Racialicious DC Happy Hour Tonight!)
• I completely agree with flamingo. That's fucked up, but the kid is 3 and his parents' name choice nonwithstanding, it's not his fault.
  (posted to Appalling: Naming your child Hitler and wondering why people are not OK with it. )
• I've been thinking and discussing this a little more - of course seeing someone name their kid Adolf Hitler makes you think "wtf." But I think we all value a little thing called the First Amendment, our right to speak
  (posted to Appalling: Naming your child Hitler and wondering why people are not OK with it. )
• I have less of a problem with ShopRite than with people rejoicing over it. ShopRite is a business and can decide to deny a service is they so desire (though saying the parents have no right to tell people what
  (posted to Appalling: Naming your child Hitler and wondering why people are not OK with it. )

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• I never said that no one was allowed to reply to me. She just replied to my question as if I had asked her directly, in the middle of a long exchange, which is not the case. And I already (posted to Appalling: Naming your child Hitler and wondering why people are not OK with it. )
• But you're assuming that it would be the same reaction, which is still making an assumption. I actually think that the name Joseph Stalin (or perhaps a variation on the spelling, but still the same pronunciation) does come up from (posted to Appalling: Naming your child Hitler and wondering why people are not OK with it. )
• exactly the point a trickster who stands at the crossroads, who ]you must make peace with to reach all other orisha that name to a post about a racist name of an innocent child of wacked out parents not geting (posted to Appalling: Naming your child Hitler and wondering why people are not OK with it. )
• Elegba is an Orisha (posted to Appalling: Naming your child Hitler and wondering why people are not OK with it. )
• This is interesting because I had a similar argument with someone who didn't understand how the First Amendment worked not too long ago. I had some former classmates posting some idiotic comments on my Facebook wall and decrying that I (posted to Appalling: Naming your child Hitler and wondering why people are not OK with it. )

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