This is right. Borat & his "Kazakhstan" are a complicated sophisticate/rube comedy. We the sophisticates in audience know that Borat is absurd stereotype & comedy is at rubes he interacts with who take him literally.https://twitter.com/BenjySarlin/status/1320746978007986182 …
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Replying to @HeerJeet
Up to a point but esp. now that we've entered an age of liberal paranoia about Slavic/Eurasian autocracy I'm not completely sure that "we the sophisticates" are quite as sophisticated as all that.
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If you're saying liberals are just as often rubes as anyone else, sure, absolutely.
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