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Sasha Baron Cohen -- AKA Borat -- AKA Ali G [VIDEO]

"The bad-ass ghetto pimp" before he was a BAGP... low-rent cable, magazine modeling, and Hasid humor...
December 7, 2006  |  
 
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Sasha promotes racial stereotypes for Jews to laugh at others
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Posted by: itzamirakul on Dec 8, 2006 5:34 AM   
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Why does this guy need to steal his characters from people of other races? How would Jewish people feel if an Arab person imitated the Jewish characteristics as stupid and something to be laughed at?

Why does he have to borrow black language and characterizations (many of which are outright stereotypes and lies and really form 21st century minstrelsy without the blackface) such as the "bad-ass ghetto pimp" and "low-rent" etc.
As a Jew boy he probably has no idea what it means to be "low-rent". What is it about black people that makes this guy want to be one so badly (except, I am sure when it comes to how black men are treated in America.)

I don't find this Sasha or whatever his real name is, comical in any way. He is a latter-day Al Jolsen or Eddie Cantor. With no talent of his own, he has to lean on stereotyping minorities. He forgets that Jews are a minority also.

I would love to see a black comedian dress up and talk like a Hasidic Jew. There wouldn't be enough room on this planet to hide such a daring person.

Sasha sucks and the only people who find him funny are other Jewish people who like to make fun of everyone else but who scream "Antisemitism" when anyone else even dares to question Israel and their treatment of Muslims.

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» Didn't watch the video? Posted by: YogiBear

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I've been in a cave
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Posted by: DaBear on Dec 8, 2006 8:46 AM   
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I guess I've been working to pay the always increasing bills on a persistently declining income so I missed this whole thing. I heard there was a movie by a guy called "Borat"? This is the same guy, I'm thinking? Wasn't there a show on HBO called "Ali G"? Is this the same guy? I didn't realize that he was a Brit?

How different is this guy from the Yes Men? Other than the agenda, I mean. Seems pretty humorous to me. If we can't laugh at ourselves and each other once in a while, we're in deeper shite than we thought. Thanks for the tip... when I get out of my debt, I'll find some filems and watch this guy.

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Sasha promotes racial stereotypes for Jews to laugh at others
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Posted by: itzamirakul on Dec 8, 2006 5:34 AM   
Current rating: Not yet rated    [1 = poor; 5 = excellent]
Why does this guy need to steal his characters from people of other races? How would Jewish people feel if an Arab person imitated the Jewish characteristics as stupid and something to be laughed at?

Why does he have to borrow black language and characterizations (many of which are outright stereotypes and lies and really form 21st century minstrelsy without the blackface) such as the "bad-ass ghetto pimp" and "low-rent" etc.
As a Jew boy he probably has no idea what it means to be "low-rent". What is it about black people that makes this guy want to be one so badly (except, I am sure when it comes to how black men are treated in America.)

I don't find this Sasha or whatever his real name is, comical in any way. He is a latter-day Al Jolsen or Eddie Cantor. With no talent of his own, he has to lean on stereotyping minorities. He forgets that Jews are a minority also.

I would love to see a black comedian dress up and talk like a Hasidic Jew. There wouldn't be enough room on this planet to hide such a daring person.

Sasha sucks and the only people who find him funny are other Jewish people who like to make fun of everyone else but who scream "Antisemitism" when anyone else even dares to question Israel and their treatment of Muslims.

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» Didn't watch the video? Posted by: YogiBear

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I've been in a cave
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Posted by: DaBear on Dec 8, 2006 8:46 AM   
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I guess I've been working to pay the always increasing bills on a persistently declining income so I missed this whole thing. I heard there was a movie by a guy called "Borat"? This is the same guy, I'm thinking? Wasn't there a show on HBO called "Ali G"? Is this the same guy? I didn't realize that he was a Brit?

How different is this guy from the Yes Men? Other than the agenda, I mean. Seems pretty humorous to me. If we can't laugh at ourselves and each other once in a while, we're in deeper shite than we thought. Thanks for the tip... when I get out of my debt, I'll find some filems and watch this guy.

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