Princess Luna
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I think there’s a flaw in this in that you are asking two questions which are not inherently linked:
- Where should the line between okay and not be?
- When should something be considered a parody?
There seems to be an unstated assumption that if something qualifies as parody, that it is automatically in the “okay” column. The question this raises is whether “is this parody?” is a good question to ask given that a bad faith actor may intentionally make something seem like a parody to most people in order to “fly under the radar” and propagandize others successfully.
I think the problem with considering comedy separately is that it adds another layer of subjectivity, because something could both promote discrimination and make people laugh.
To manufacture a hypothetical, imagine a comedic cartoon about a Nazi that unapologetically murders Jewish people all day, but acts normal otherwise, and the comedy is derived from this juxtaposition and setting things up so the audience cares about him and not the people he kills (similar to what Solar Opposites or Rick & Morty often do) by making the Jews act bad and never showing us their more human side, while showing his; someone could easily, from this parody, come away actually thinking less of Jews and be more okay with treating them badly or supporting genocides.