I think we correctly object to satire when it dupes people who don't stand a chance, and are already subject to much cruelty and in a manner that's just so exploitative. Borat is unashamedly so, including the character he's chosen and the way he's chosen to go about it.
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Maybe i need to watch this movie again. I saw what i took as a skewering of a painful human truth. Every culture does the figurative Beautiful Wife Cage thing. I know mine does.
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nd lower-middle class Americans, whose ignorance and hospitality he exploits to help upper-middle class liberals feel morally superior.
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