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    1. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 25 Oct 2020

      Wait, where is cancel culture? To say Sacha Baron Cohen's earlier film was racist and inexcusably exploitative is an understatement. It was cruel. He went to a dirt poor village in Romania, paid them a pittance and duped them into this. I'm not over it. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7686885.stm …pic.twitter.com/2sqTaeUPvV

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    2. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 25 Oct 2020

      If you ever wonder how the cruelty of white-supremacists is seen as funny in their own groups, look at how the other side of the culture divide lets Cohen remain "funny" as long as he targets the right people in a funny way. He'll keep laughing all the way to the bank, I suppose.

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    3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 25 Oct 2020

      Can you imagine anyone targeting any other group we think about (African-Americans, Jews, Native Americans, etc.) with the nakedly racist, unashamedly exploitative cruelty of Cohen, and getting to make another film and making lots of money and being reviewed seriously?

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    4. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 25 Oct 2020

      Now, I believe in redemption and moving forward. But this guy hasn't sought anything of the sort. He shrugs, cashes the check, makes the right noises about cultural issues of the day and goes on with his lucrative life AND IS STILL DEPLOYING THE SAME RACISM. Come on.

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    5. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 25 Oct 2020

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted Alastair Thompson

      If that were the case, he would have chosen his character to be an American or a Brit. Blackface minstrel shows aren't satirizing racism, and neither is Cohen.https://twitter.com/althecat/status/1320383883452518401 …

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      Alastair Thompson @althecat
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      I think that’s the entire point. He is satirizing racism.
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    6. Lana Sinapayen‏ @sina_lana 25 Oct 2020
      Replying to @zeynep

      Although I think you make a good point, always making equivalencies with anti-black racism (and the centuries of genocide and torture that's behind it) is super tasteless and I don't think your point will come across well out of this.

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      zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 25 Oct 2020
      Replying to @sina_lana

      The "backward" places he targets that have been subject to much pain, including colonialism and ethnic cleansing, would like to say that one should not compare sufferings as if it were a rankings, but the idea that they do not suffer is exactly the result of his kind of racism.

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        2. Lana Sinapayen‏ @sina_lana 25 Oct 2020
          Replying to @zeynep

          I'm not saying they do not suffer. But the fact that you use another group's suffering, while you're not part of that group, to make a point is kind of exploitative too. It would be better if you could make your point without absolutely wanting to drag Black suffering into it.

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        3. Lana Sinapayen‏ @sina_lana 25 Oct 2020
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          Because while I can't speak for Jewish people, your underlying point is basically that Black people are "protected" from that form of mockery and that it's a form of privilege compared with foreign people who are. It's not a very valid point and now you'll get more comments about

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