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For a primer on how to make fun of Nazis, look to Charlie Chaplin

  • Written by Kevin Hagopian, Senior Lecturer of Media Studies (Cinema Studies), Pennsylvania State University
imageCharlie Chaplin's character Adenoid Hynkel was a not-so-subtle nod to Adolf Hitler.Wikimedia Commons

White nationalists and neo-Nazis are having their moment. Former Ku Klux Klan Imperial Wizard David Duke is back, yet again, in the media spotlight, while newer figures such as white supremacist Richard Spencer and Christopher Cantwell are...

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