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Originally Posted by lisarea
That's why they use memes like Pepe the Frog and Trash Dove, because when anyone points out the dogwhistle, it sounds like those silly alarmist stories the media has always done about youth culture.
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There is a related thing that the Handmaid's Tale does well in some instances.
There's an episode where they have an event called a "Prayvaganza", a name which is incredibly corny and ridiculous. Various ridiculous rituals they have doesn't make them any less powerful though.
Or the thing which was going around recently, the Saudi fashion show using drones instead of models. How ridiculous.
But just because it's ridiculous doesn't mean the Saudis will be shamed into doing anything. It's more like a mark of how completely their gender apartheid dominates things there. In the US, a far right religious group having a fashion show this way would attract too much mockery, and they require recruits if they want to grow, including female recruits. The Saudi religious freaks don't need to worry about recruiting people, they simply impose on them.
The idea that the ridiculous can't coexist with the dangerous is how we got Trump.
A lot of fascists start out as jokes.