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The difference is that fascists crumple under ridicule. It's an idealogy entirely dependant on maintaining the appearance of incredible power (strategic, political and physical) and anything that makes them look lame or maybe a bit kooky completely subverts the entire premise.
Therefore, setting aside normal rules of "no kink shaming" for example to redicule fascists hurts the fascists far more than it hurts those with actually extreme/subversive kinks. Fascists have no defense against redicule, meanwhile someone mocked for simply engaging in kink with other consenting adults can simply say "I like what I like and everyone involved consented so what's it to you?"
For a real world example, the Ku Klux Klan was heavily set back about a century ago when a journalist wrote an expose about how goofy their super-secret ceremonies are that they do behind closed doors, and suddenly people stopped seeing them as scary masked mobs but instead started seeing them as sad angry men who engage in silly dress up games with other sad angry men.
The fact that you think this is about being bad meanies and kinkshaming and not like, misogyny and transphobia while both women and trans people are losing their legal protections in the US is telling. You think this is about making them look "goofy?" Have you maybe considered you're not in the position to intuitively understand how problematic the specific conditions of this "goofyness" is? I say intuitively as it is already obvious you haven't read a fucking thing about any of these topics, let alone how fascists and liberals launder their values on these topics. Think for one fucking second why it would be bad to see these Nazis as engaging in "silly dressup games" specifically in reference to crossdressing as a woman.
I do not give a shit about being mean to fascists, they deserve to suffer, I care about preventing liberals and fascists from reproducing their values and directing violence at vulnerable groups. If you're still at the point where the debate is "be mean or don't be mean," you should step back and stop approaching these kinds of discussions as though you're an authority. You wanna be mean to these people? Howbout you make fun of them for being fascists or at the very least don't make fun of some other group to do it.
Before you respond, ask yourself if you are the kind of person who should get a say on whether this is harmful.