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From Saturday Night Live to HBO to South Park, major players in entertainment are starting to depict QAnon. But experts are cautious. As the absurdity of the conspiracy theory becomes the butt of jokes, does it ignore the group s roots in anti-Semitic and racist ideology?
“QAnon says there is an underground ring of very bad people who gather to undermine Trump and steal elections and eat children. I hear that and I m like whoa, where, said Kate McKinnon on a recent episode of Saturday Night Live.
On the one hand, the scene is very purposefully trying to make it laughable and ridiculous and unserious in a way that it helps us to recognize that it s not going to be congruent theory that there are lots of weaknesses in the theory, said Outi Hakola, Researcher of North American Culture at the University of Helsinki.  ....

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