Roseanne Barr ploys against Xenophobia.

 

One of the recurring trends after the collapsed of The Third Reich, is the cultural contention that most Germans were unaware of the concentration camps.  That they did not know that this was happening to the Jews, or to those arrested by the Nazis.  In a recent movie documenting an art exhibition of the Holocaust War in Germany,  the most fervent argument was that not all soldiers were killers themselves, that most of them were just following orders.  Mind you most of the exhibition was about the pictures that the soldiers themselves took in front of the corpses, but we are supposed to believe that they were just following orders. Even Neo-Nazis were shown up protesting the Art exhibition claiming that their fathers and grand parents were being demonized by the exhibition.  The trend as I see, it is one of denial of the facts, and of intolerance for the revision of any argument.  How will anyone fight against Xenophobia, when the Xenophobics themselves do not see anything wrong with there hateful message.  These images of Roseanne Barr dressed as Hitler, as first shown in  That Oven Feelin' are meant to challenge power perception and fear mongering myths so much circulating nowadays.  By Roaseanne, a Jewish woman herself dressed as a Hitler, she reversed the role of the victim by Bringing to the forefront, that yes the Holocaust did happen, and that she is prepare to fight back not with fear but with parody against its masculine power archetype.  She knows that the fight that is being presented nowadays is a cultural one, and its is basically being presented in the form of fear mongering antics, in which the presentation of swastikas are both used to intimidate and to mischaracterized history and politics.