Is HIStory fascist?
I made this post to the main MJ sub a couple of months back but it got deleted (I wonder why...)
I should preface by saying I am an MJ fan and supporter. He's my favorite artist, and I personally believe he was truly a good man although I could be swayed otherwise.
It has always been extremely apparent to me that the album HIStory and it's surrounding era has a **ton** of Nazi/fascist imagery and associations.
The album cover, the album title, the title track, They Don't Care About Us "Jew Me, Sue me, Kick me, Kike me" which MJ said was a solidarity statement but it's funny that he says the line kick me, kike me on last time at the very end of the song completely unprompted. It doesn't even rhyme.
The infamous HIStory teaser is a pure Nazi propaganda piece but it's played so seriously. It was very strange at the time because MJ was always very humble and kind and childlike. It was also the antithesis of everything cool in music at the time, people wanted rebellious music not fascist music. Just weird, what do we think was the psychology behind this one?