But Hitler hated black people

One of the tragedies of our born-frees and near born-frees is that they clearly do not understand history.

I mean this is in all seriousness - we live in a country where one black person will profess an admiration of Adolf Hitler, and some other black people will come out of the woodwork to defend that one guy because they hate Jewish people.

It is like these black guys (and it tends to be guys) doing this don't like their balls.

Hitler's main view of black people is that they should be exterminated via forced sterilisation.

It is almost like a part of this is that there are a lot of people who haven't really grown out of that stage of development in which they are trying to shock their parents.

So while slamming the evils of Apartheid, they embrace one of the men whose followers included some of the architects of Apartheid.

More because he is shocking, than because of any sort of deep understanding of who he was.

They hate white supremacy - but love history's ultimate white supremacist.

They think they're being edgy - but really they just look like teenagers.

And I blame our education system for this - it is almost like nobody at our schools took the time to explain the status of black people in Nazi Germany, or the role of Nazi sympathisers in our own history.

It is almost like there is no attempt being made to contextualise what happened, to understand how it all fits in to where we are now.

It looks like our education system is not just failing with regards to the STEM subjects, but also the humanities.

And the humanities are important.

They get a bad rap because some people in them figure that in order to boost their funding they need to go on about how "science doesn't answer everything" and if I am going to fund something I want to know what it will do for me, not what the people across the way won't.

But that doesn't mean that the humanities aren't important, and this whole thing with Mcebo Dlamini and his supporters illustrates why.

It is not what other fields don't do that matters, but what the humanities do - and that is give context to our current situation in the world.

It is from the humanities that we know our place right now, which is an important part of figuring out how to get to a better one.

The humanities ultimately help us avoid being too idiotic in the longer term.