Modern media love right-wing villains. Nazis, Klansmen, and white supremacists are easy antagonists – no one sympathizes

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The blind spot
Modern media love right-wing villains. Nazis, Klansmen, and white supremacists are easy antagonists – no one sympathizes with them.

But films and TV almost never show leftist radicals who killed for their ideals. The omission isn’t just ideological; for decades, it simply felt irrelevant. The violent New Left burned out quickly. The Black Panthers disbanded in 1982, and their imitators faded too. Political violence became associated exclusively with the far right and religious fundamentalists.

That selective memory shaped how America sees extremism.

And as the political climate shifts once again, the roles – and the narratives – may be up for reevaluation.

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