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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Emma Brockes

Digested week: ICE’s performance is intimidating and deadly, but also farcical

Federal officers throw a teargas canister and fire “less-lethal” rounds from behind a yellow tape
Federal officers throw a teargas canister and fire ‘less-lethal’ rounds at protesters in Minneapolis. Photograph: Craig Lassig/EPA

Monday

An aspect of ICE’s deadly performance in Minneapolis that goes hand-in-hand with its mission to intimidate is the absolutely farcical tone of the ICE aesthetic. Broadway numbers like Springtime for Hitler in The Producers and, more recently, Das Übermensch in Operation Mincemeat, a showstopper performed with a German techno beat and Nazi boyband – “Third Reich on the mic” – vocals, present fascism as an essentially camp enterprise and we’re reminded this week that ICE fits the mould entirely.

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