[quote name='Friend of Sonic']I think I may have misstated my example. The word Adolf Hitler isn't, say, hugely offensive. It's not like writing Huge Hairy Penis Testicle Balls on a cake. It's the name of a historical figure. Yes, a historical figure who has a shit ton of blood on his hands, but still a historical figure whose name is written in a textbook. It isn't the same variety as Harry Potter's He who must not be named.
And no, MLK is not the same as Hitler. Jesus Christ, it figures the only time Wombat acknowledges a plebe like me is to have a knee jerk reaction. My point is that some African Americans, for instance, may have offense taken to a white family naming their white kid Martin Luther King Jr. But that doesn't mean putting "Martin Luther King Jr" ton a cake, with no other context written on the cake, is offensive.[/quote]
As a black man I can say I would not take offense if a white family named their kid MLK. In the culture of the human race doing something
like that is a way to honor the person who had that name previously. That's why you have so many people offended when someone named their kid Adolf Hitler.
They are honoring the last guy who had the same name.