Really accomplished something.
lolwat
They are in the Illuminati and thus know Biden is secretly the leader of Hamas
Brave
Sacha Baron-Cohen of all people did this?
You mean the celebrated comedian whose most famous schticks are the generic Muslim Middle Eastern dictator who is terrible in every way and the Central Asian anti-Semite who is sexually deranged and borderline uncivilized?
Why, it’s almost as if this was inverted and a Muslim man from the Middle East played a grossly stereotyped depiction of an Israeli Jew for cheap laughs that there would be an immense outcry against what clearly amounts to open bigotry and racist caricature…
To his Credit, SBC also played a grossly stereotyped Israeli for laughs as Elan Morad
He also played a very funny gay Austrian in Bruno but everyone forgets that.
I think there’s a discussion to be had about satirising the in-group vs satirising the out-group, especially when it comes to how privilege intersects with this stuff.
Obviously there’s the whole both-sidesism thing and also how equal opportunity bigotry primarily serves the interests of the dominant groups.
I think the main joke about Elan morrad isn’t how racist Israelis are though- but it’s certainly a part of the setup.
the joke is that Americans can be conned into insane Islamophobia because they worship the Israeli “security” apparatus.
Imagine if SBC had better politics and he used that character and his brand of irreverence to get some real mask off reactions about the current situation.
I mean wasn’t that the premise of “what is America?”
Never watched it though
Remember the end of the Chicago Seven when he did a revisionism stating that the USA system is the best and working within it is the only way to go?
Reminder he exploited and ridiculed deeply impoverished people in rural Romania while making Borat.
