Why is Scout puzzled by Miss Gates disapproval of Hitler in chapter 26 of To Kill a Mockingbird?

is
puzzled because, like most people in town, Miss Gates is a racist and white supremacist. Yet
here she is, waxing eloquent about the terrible plight of Jews in Nazi Germany. Miss Gates is so
blinded by prejudice that she's unable to see theof this. And it says a lot about her, not to
mention Scout's acute powers of observation, that a young girl is able to pick up on the
discrepancy between Miss Gates's sympathy for the Jews and her lack of concern over Tom
Robinson, who's no less a victim of state-sanctioned prejudice.

Scout stands
apart from virtually all the adults in Maycomb in...