2oceansviber, Sugar, a regular on Cape Town’s bustling Kloof Street, spotted this Hitler t-shirt in the window of one of those shops where you might expect to see this sort of thing, if you know what I mean.

Here we have an example of one man’s smug irony being another man’s reason to kick the former man’s ass. Check out the pics below.

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Looks like your standard trendy shop front, right?

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And then this badboy appears. Wham. A Hitler shirt, right there, in all his purse-lipped evil glory. Slaughterer of six million people.

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Ah, but what’s this? Hitler’s wearing make up? And a pink uniform? And heart instead of a swastika? That makes this okay, right? Surely, hey?

No. Nein.

Is this shirt comparing drag queens with genocidal maniacs? No, probably not. But never mind that point. Wearing this shirt will be bad for health, most definitely. By the time the enraged relative of a holocaust survivor (or victim, for that matter) gets close enough to realise that this Hitler has mascara on, and that you’re actually a painfully witty fellow who reads Dostoyevsky in the bath, they won’t care. They’ll take the opportunity to punch you hard somewhere soft.

Before you buy this t-shirt (no doubt adding to your collection of Cliche Guevara and Jesus limited print tees), ask yourself: is the ironic smirk you’ll be wearing really worth the punishment from hordes of rightfully pissed off people?

Just think about that one before you whip out the plastic.