You might ask, what kind of idiot would do that?
Statements from the Children's Museum and Madison police said the man has cognitive disabilities."His work with the museum over the past 10 years has been closely supervised, coached, and supported. It is our understanding that he believed his costume to be mocking Hitler," the museum said in the statement.
So, of course, he was fired, but the museum says "its staff still hopes to engage him in a restorative justice process "that would redress the harm done to the community while allowing him to understand the effects of his actions and accept accountability.""
If the description of the man is accurate and he really didn't understand what reactions would be, I think restorative justice requires that the museum quickly re-hire him. It is too much to expect media and foundations to issue clarifications.
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These things are so tragic. The people doing this to this poor man should be horsewhipped.
When I was a kid, Hitler was often seen as a comic figure, a kind of pompous loser. There were Hitler Halloween masks for sale at the local five-and-dime. Nobody made a federal case out of it. Us kids were always zig-heiling each other, and laughing about it. Guess that's not allowed anymore.
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