Naming Ethics: Your Children Can Suffer For Your Ignorance

This one will be short, if not sweet.

A Reddit user shared this baby shower announcement on the sub-reddit devoted to terrible baby names, mostly absurd spellings….but this isn’t a spelling problem:

Yes, the parents are morons.

It seems that they didn’t know about the worst nuclear facility disaster in history, which rendered the Ukrainian city of Chernobyl a veritable ghost town in 1986, In some movies, it’s a zombie town. But the parents just thought it was a pretty name. You know, like “Treblinka.” Or “Malmedy.”

It is unknown at this point whether someone will back Mom and Dad into a corner, slap them silly, and tell them that they cannot stick an innocent child with that name, although naming a child “Chernobyl” is perfectly legal. It did prompt some inspired mockery on Reddit, though.

My favorite: “I guess it’s a nuclear family.”

4 thoughts on “Naming Ethics: Your Children Can Suffer For Your Ignorance

  1. After our kids got “mobile”, my wife put her degrees to work and taught (high school) Latin for a number of years. As a teacher new to the system, she didn’t get first choice of schools, and was posted to one of the academically lower-scoring schools. That school only offered Latin because it was the performing art magnet school (they did some excellent productions), and had a cadre of better students from families that valued education. The black students in her classes referred to the sometimes bizarre names (like in Johnburger’s example) of other black students as their “ghetto names”.

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