@cutecruel mhmhm. OK. Racism. Got it.
"Can you imagine the outrage it would provoke if the very same movie was filmed mocking black people? Or trans people?"
I would love to see such movies :-)
@guenguer Wait what, he was actually honored by the ADL? The irony is indeed strong with that one.
@cutecruel I think you might have misunderstood who the film is making fun of.
@cutecruel "Ali G (Black Culture)" -> Care to elaborate? Ali G is a play on British scum culture and has about as much to do with "Black culture" as Donald Trump has with metal (that is, he possibly heard one or two songs by Rammstein).
@cutecruel Spare us from your concern trolling. We already had this conversation about the first film and still only morons would think Kazakhstan and its culture is anything like what's portrayed in this film. Borat expertly mocks white Americans and that seems to be what some people are mad about...
strong "anti-racists are the REAL racists" vibe from this whining
@cutecruel This is the thing I am agreeing on, mocking them without clarifying is what I felt was pretty unnecessary and without benefits.
Of course it also mocks other ethnicity, such as Jews or women, but the difference is that these get resolved and proven untrue. This doesn't hold up too much for the Kazahks, except maybe in the end of the movie, but way too less.
Albeit I can imagine some is criticism of society or gov in there, such as holocaust denials or anti-antisemitism, but I don't know enough about the country and culture in there in order to judge about that.
@cutecruel What is really disturbing is this guy thinks he's funny. You do know he is from England? Personally, I think the man has no talent and just uses situations exaggerated to profit, the blind leading the blind.
Review by cutecruelBlockedParent2020-10-23T21:35:33Z
How the hell has Borat not been cancelled in 2020? It's a wealthy Western man caricaturizing a poor Kazakh in public spaces as a crazy and ignorant racist. He's basically inciting racism while wearing blackface and people are like, "He's so hilarious! haha"
For people claiming Sacha Cohen is "oh, so against PC-culture, he doesn’t care", then why does he retired his other 'satirical' characters like: Ali G (black culture), Dictator Aladeen (Arabs), Bruno (gay people)? Oh, that’s right, he is scared of 'cancel culture'. Cohen has a Golden Racism Pass for Borat because American 'cancel culture' is veeeery selective on who they target, and this is due to the famous American ignorance. Here is the loophole: all ex-Soviets countries/cultures are free to ridiculed. American humor has always been about making fun of other countries. They also love making fun of immigrants’ accents. But since they don't want to be seen as racists (even though they are), it's their loophole to still make jokes at the expense of certain nationalities. It’s a vile double standard.
Borat is a racist caricature of a central Asian person, no it's not funny, and no it's not 'satirising racism' to perpetuate hateful stereotypes about Central Asia. And miss me with the, 'this movie mock America and not Kazakhstan' shit. Can you imagine the outrage it would provoke if the very same movie was filmed mocking black people? Or trans people?
And meanwhile, Sacha Cohen is the spokesman for the ADL which polices the portrayal of Jewish people. Oh, the irony.