Accidentally Marketing the Austrian Painter

We live in an age unable to appreciate irony or nuance.

Louder with Crowder tells us:

Olney Theatre’s production of Mel Brooks’s 2001 musical The Producers only has three more performances, but it’s not going to close without a bit of manufactured controversy. Audience members at Montgomery County playhouse are going to have to walk past a small coterie protesting the show’s play-within-the-play, because, the demonstrators say, it makes light of Adolf Hitler and the atrocities committed by Nazi Germany. 

“I understand the intent is satire,” says Jeffrey Imm, who is organizing the demonstration through his anti-discrimination group, Responsible for Equality And Liberty. “This is the point of morality: some things we have to recognize as absolute evil. When 6 million people are murdered, we don’t view it with knee-slapping, we view it with reverence.”

This Imm person misses the point.

What would happen if the SPLC or ADL were to condemn The Austrian Painter?

Heh, we should be so lucky.

You can't buy that kind of PR.

What if another problem arises? What if those crazy guys in the Neo-Nazi community find The Austrian Painter and like it? We'll take Neo-Nazi money, that's not the point. What if they hold up The Austrian Painter as some sort of example of the 'the good' Hitler? Would it really be a good thing if The Austrian Painter goes viral because it makes Storm Front's recommended reading?

Uh oh,

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