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09 March 2011

Irony or Stupidity?

There is a rather peculiar gentleman that has been frequenting the library a lot lately.  He's loud, crude, rude and impossible to talk to.  He wears headphones but the music coming out of them is so loud that he screams instead of taking them off so he can hear what you are saying. He constantly tries to engage the Ref Desk staff in conversations about Mein Kampf and Hitler.  He's a real Hitler devotee.  


He showed up today with swastikas drawn all over his t-shirt with the word "Injun" scribbled above them.  He's constantly asking for books on the subject of Nazi Germany but I don't know if he actually reads them or not. The ironic thing is... he's African-American. Now, it's been a while since I studied 20th century European history but I seem to recall that Hitler wasn't exactly fond of black people.  Weren't they persecuted and brutalized by the Nazi regime too?