In To Kill a Mockingbird, what do you believe to be the answer to this question?"How can you hate Hitler an' then turn around an' be ugly about...

At the time in which To Kill a Mockingbird
took place (the early 1930s), Hitler had not yet taken his Final Solution to
its terrible conclusion. European Jews were being persecuted to be sure, but Hitler's
murderous attempt at extinction had not yet begun. It must have seemed very far away to
the isolated people in Maycomb, who could sympathize with the Mrunas in Africa and the
Jews in Germany, but not with the African-American population of their own town. The
bottom line was that many Southern whites still saw Negroes as inferior, and most of
Maycomb wanted to keep them in their lowly social position. Even Jem, who grew up
adhering to Atticus' belief in treating all people the same, saw the reality in
this.

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"There's four kinds of folks in the world.
There's the ordinary kind like us and the neighbors, there's the kind like the
Cunninghams out in the woods, the kind like the Ewells down at the dump, and the
Negroes."

Though the people
of Maycomb weren't ready for a change in their own town yet, it was easy enough to judge
others who lived an ocean away.