1. A few thoughts on the use of comedy as a mask for bigotry. In 1938 Louis-Ferdinand Céline published Bagatelles pour un massacre
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2. Bagatelles was an over-the-top anti-Semitic diatribe. Céline argued Jews responsible for downfall of Napoleon, the Pope was Jewish.
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3. As per Céline, everything wrong in France going back to Treaty of Verdun in 843 was fault of Jews & almost all public figures were Jews.
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4. Andre Gide (who Céline of course claimed, inaccurately, was Jewish) thought Céline's tract was so absurd it was "joke."
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5. Gide's review of Bagatelles (seeing it as satire) failed to realize role of hyperbolic fantasia in nurturing anti-Semitic imagination
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6. Occasionally there are accounts of contemporary neo-Nazis ("alt-right") that fall into same trap: just kids making bad taste jokes.
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