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    1. 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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    2. 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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    3. 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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    4. 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
      Replying to @zeynep
      I think that’s the entire point. He is satirizing racism.
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    5. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 25 Oct 2020

      Unsurprisingly, this is what many alt-right say when people object to naked racism in their humor. So it spreads across the political spectrum to patrol acceptable racism? I agree humor often flirts with cruelty & there are gray zones. But Cohen is over the cliff by a long mile.pic.twitter.com/wimmm1WMtF

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    6. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 25 Oct 2020

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted HarmlessReplyGuy

      He is being fêted, reviewed positively and is reprising an unambiguously and cruelly racist character without much comment. Look I'm a great fan of satire, including when it's painful. But he takes many big, lucrative and racist swings at easy targets.https://twitter.com/HarmlessReply/status/1320383740732936193 …

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      HarmlessReplyGuy @HarmlessReply
      Replying to @zeynep
      not sure he's going to have that many defenders…he definitely obliterated decency and good taste this time …great performance art but not for bourgeois sensibilities LOL
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    7. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 25 Oct 2020

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted Ausir

      Yes. Cohen duped a dirt-poor Roma village in Romania. Roma are among the biggest victims of the Holocaust and face ongoing deep racism. Cohen paid them a few dollars and depicted them as rapists, abortionists and prostitutes. (Movie made $262.6 million).https://twitter.com/VaultAusir/status/1320390404529938435 …

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      Ausir @VaultAusir
      Replying to @fruitoftears @argyriou15 @zeynep
      he definitely is contributing to the racist stereotypes about Central Asians and about Roma people (who were the actual villagers in the village he filmed the Kazakhstan parts)
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    8. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 25 Oct 2020

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted

      As someone who understands the fake accent language Borat speaks in his 2nd movie, it's not remote. Why do we never discuss the Iraq war now? It's always a mess "over there", they're that backward. "Always fighting." That's Trump's line. That's also Cohen. https://twitter.com/EdwardHinchman/status/1320390042460786688 …

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    9. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 25 Oct 2020

      Anyway, there are many comedians who do make fun of powerful people, are hilarious, and don't go around further entrenching already widespread Western racism towards people we either directly victimize or shrug at their suffering. Come on. Who needs SBC in the age of @sarahcpr?

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    10. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 25 Oct 2020

      Again: this bugs me because Sacha Baron Cohen's cruel racism is directly related to the way US and the UK—where Cohen's from—imposed enormous suffering in Iraq, and how we *never* talk about it now. Because "those people" are irredeemably backward. It's also Trump's *exact* line.

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      zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 25 Oct 2020

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted David Osborn

      Come on people. This is terrible, and outright racist and not in some harmless way. Yes, I know what else he does. These countries "over there" are not some past relics. And he doesn't *need* any of this to satire Western anything.https://twitter.com/david_osborn/status/1320396810620424192 …

      zeynep tufekci added,

      David Osborn @david_osborn
      Replying to @zeynep
      He’s also being allowed run and promote an account actually labelled as the *official* acct of the Government of Kazakhstan, despite being obviously in breach of Twitter policy. And the acct is mocking people who accidentally tag it. pic.twitter.com/k2wizu7X5L
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        2. Asterixis‏ @DSdoc97 25 Oct 2020
          Replying to @Gearoid_Dubh @zeynep

          C'mon it's not the 2000s anymore.....u can't use the same comedic schtick with the changing power dynamics.. Americans can like borat but in Central Asia a big noooooo.....

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        1. Santos Kri  🔶 🍀 💧‏ @SantosKrikorian 25 Oct 2020
          Replying to @zeynep

          Kazajistán gave us sci hub (Elbakyan) and have a covid19 vaccine at phase 2. It's rather a middle developed country that inherite URSS tech.

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        2. Vikram Chandra‏ @typingvanara 25 Oct 2020
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        2. Slim Goodbody‏ @slim_goodbody_ 25 Oct 2020
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          When I was in Italy, a Roma put a curse on my wife because we had no cash to give them. They aren't exactly sympathetic people.

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        3. Martyn Amos‏ @martyn_amos 25 Oct 2020
          Replying to @slim_goodbody_ @zeynep

          Perhaps the curse was that she was doomed to be with someone who is prepared to racially stereotype people....

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        1. Sarwat Malik‏ @SarwatMHassan 26 Oct 2020
          Replying to @zeynep @SanaSaeed

          Finally people saying what should have been said so long ago!!!!

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