Genuine question, but is it literally just gender stuff where that line is drawn for you? Like if it’s rhetoric about “women empowerment” or whatever, that’s too political? But any other political themes are fair game? Even as just a send-up to history, you have to realize Gilroy is working on this stuff as cyclical and resonant to contemporary context.
That’s how any of this works as well as it does, it’s rooted in real and relevant things we can feel, even if you don’t have the tools to articulate it, or just choose not to. Fascism and authoritarianism describe phenomena, and function through theory that has been worked out academically for decades. They aren’t just something that popped out in WWII Nazi Germany once in history and never happened again.