Lindsay Ellis’s shit takes aside, she makes a very good case for parodying fascism (Nazism in particular). Fascists haven’t appropriated Mel Brooks’s lampoons of fascism. They unironically love American History X and sing “Tomorrow Belongs to Me”. Nazis do not love “Springtime for Hitler” in the Producers or Jojo Rabbit because it makes them look silly and dumb. Fascists don’t have a coherent ideology and build their ethos around telling themselves they are badass warriors, so parodying fascism by making them sing and dance like clowns is good.
Lindsay Ellis’s shit takes aside, she makes a very good case for parodying fascism (Nazism in particular). Fascists haven’t appropriated Mel Brooks’s lampoons of fascism. They unironically love American History X and sing “Tomorrow Belongs to Me”. Nazis do not love “Springtime for Hitler” in the Producers or Jojo Rabbit because it makes them look silly and dumb. Fascists don’t have a coherent ideology and build their ethos around telling themselves they are badass warriors, so parodying fascism by making them sing and dance like clowns is good.