Official Sacha Baron Cohen "Who Is America" Fukkery Thread

[BushidoBrown]

GOP Lawmaker Jason Spencer Strips Down, Screams ‘N-Word’ on Sacha Baron Cohen’s ‘Who Is America?’

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Her willingness in the segment to lie about a supposed humanitarian trip to Sierra Leone is deeply embarrassing, but it’s hard not to wonder what exactly she did to deserve being pranked like this.

Yea they immediately get on code when it comes to protecting the perceived innocence of white women tho

shyt never fails

 

[Baka's Weird Case]

is a link up for episode two like somebody had for the first one?

 

[wire28]

seeing the commentary on twitter regarding the kingman, az segment is depressing.

these bleeding heart white liberals really believe this is only an outlier in amerikkka.

this might just be his magnum opus

 

[88m3]

wow

 

[Robbie3000]

this might just be his magnum opus

These hardcore racists always have a look. A dusty, product of incest, ugly ass kind of look.

Like if you were to have a casting call for inbred racist cacs you couldn’t have done better than this bunch.

 

[AndroidHero]

And right wingers were shytting on Ana kasparian for saying she is better than these people.

 

[wire28]

These hardcore racists always have a look. A dusty, product of incest, ugly ass kind of look.

Like if you were to have a casting call for inbred racist cacs you couldn’t have done better than this bunch.

lets not go overboard here

the guy at the end had a black friend in middle school, and gets along just swell with black guy down the street

 

[Baka's Weird Case]

second episode was even better than the first
can dikk cheney hurry up and fukkin die of heart failure soon
that model was unbelievably stupid like completely brainless
that georgia rep also needed zero prompting to start shouting the n word and showing his ass
ted koppel the ONLY one who looked good after this
hit mics like ted koppel

 

[Dre Space Age]

Techs for Toddlers. :TrumpedYa:

Lol that fukking smilie

 

[MR. Conclusion]

seeing the commentary on twitter regarding the kingman, az segment is depressing.

these bleeding heart white liberals really believe this is only an outlier in amerikkka.

Somebody show Van Jones this clip.

 

[Lucky_Lefty]

seeing the commentary on twitter regarding the kingman, az segment is depressing.

these bleeding heart white liberals really believe this is only an outlier in amerikkka.

That's why I find it hilarious when Dems try to reconcile with these morons and try to get then on their side by not trying to hurt their little fragile feelings. You're trying to be friends with muthafukkas who have no shame or intelligence. There is no getting them to see the right side of history. fukk'em

 

[Professor Emeritus]

Yea they immediately get on code when it comes to protecting the perceived innocence of white women tho

shyt never fails

I dunno about the specific people complaining, but there's a legit gripe in there which deals with the fact that Sasha Baron Cohen, AFAIK, has no clear moral center and thus no ability to stay on message.

With his skills, the impact he could make is incredible. The gun skit. The mosque skit. The georgia representative making an utter fool of himself. The Cheney expose. That stuff is money. (And there are certain people on the left that can and should get such treatment too.)

But too often his "targets" are just stupid or, even worse, just hospitable. Like, not everyone is going to condemn every random idiot that sits down to dinner with them, because they've been raised that you shouldn't be rude to guests. Some of the scenes in the Borat movie weren't even a condemnation of the people in them, they were just pointing out how tolerant some people can be even when they're around asshats. And this dumb chick looked really dumb....but so? There are definitely people equally dumb who post here in some of the subforums. Does that make them bad people?

The worst I heard was with those people in Romania that he filmed for Borat when saying it was Kazakhstan. They didn't even want to do the things he made them do in the scene, like having animals in their homes, but they felt pressured to because he was the foreigner with the film crew. Most of what they said and did was what he made them say and do, and then he twisted it to mean something else and humiliated them. I've always had mixed feelings about him since then.

If he could stay on message and focus on exposing people who are actually ill-willed towards others, he'd be doing God's work. But he loses track of the narrative because he doesn't fully have one.

 

[Professor Emeritus]

That's why I find it hilarious when Dems try to reconcile with these morons and try to get then on their side by not trying to hurt their little fragile feelings. You're trying to be friends with muthafukkas who have no shame or intelligence. There is no getting them to see the right side of history. fukk'em

It depends on the lumping though. There are people in that room who straight up called other people in the room ignorant and racist. It came out in stories about the event from way back in January. But you know that only the worst ones are going to get their comments aired, and not the ones who pushed back or who saw through the whole thing.

“He said the project was going to be building the world’s largest mosque outside of the Middle East. He implied that Muslims would take over our town and we’d all be converted or one would have to move,” one attendee told Daily News reporter D.K. McDonald. “I think they were trying to piss us off, just for reactions,” another attendee said, “because the stuff they were stating was just absurd.”

“He showed pictures of our town with business signs photoshopped into Muslim languages,” Mudge said. “He used many trigger statements like the Muslims would be protected from regular citizens to make sure there were no terror attacks from us.”

Mudge, who attended with her husband, said she and some of the other attendees speculated the purported focus group was going to be used to create a show or documentary about hate toward Muslims using the responses from the meeting.

“They claimed it (the filming) was for the architectural firm that was going to build the mosque,” she said. “We even tried pointing out to those around us to stop playing into the speaker’s hands by responding because it was all a set up. So many members responded with hate, some with blatant racism and a whole lot of ignorance.”

The issue isn't racists getting exposed as racists - that needs to happen. The issue is when people who aren't racists get lumped with them because they happened to be in the same room, or the same town, or of the same skin color. Just like nation-states treating all Muslims in a community like terrorists has the potential to push more of them towards terrorism, and cops treating all Black people in a neighborhood like gang members is going to push some of them towards gangs, media treating all rural white people as idiot far-right racist extremists is going to push some of them more to the right. You don't want to encourage them to feel more solidarity with the racist asshats, you've got to create the opening for them to distinguish themselves from the asshats. Otherwise you're just constantly shooting yourself in the foot for the sole purpose of hoping to feel good about "keeping it real."

 

[88m3]

Think you're letting them off the hook too easy @Rhakim and I personally think it's pointless to shame them unless they've committed a crime and guilty.

 

[Professor Emeritus]

Think you're letting them off the hook too easy @Rhakim and I personally think it's pointless to shame them unless they've committed a crime and guilty.

Not quite sure what you mean.

Shame is a strong tool. Shame is one of the ways that communities police behavior that is wrong even if it isn't illegal. There are times when people are wrong and can't be arrested, but they should legitimately be shamed, or else acceptance of the wrong can spread.

My point is just that we need to be careful about shaming people for being wrong, versus shaming people merely for being loosely associated with people who are wrong. We need to give the associated people an "out." And I don't mean a bullshyt out, where they keep being associated with racists and evil people and voting for them and casually supporting their evil. I mean a real out where they have a chance to distinguish themselves and move towards the light. It requires more subtlety than the sledgehammers we usually lose around here.

MLK Jr. was a master of that. He exposed people's own bigotry and evil while always giving them ample opportunity to turn away from their bigotry and evil. He never softened his condemnation of the wrong while also never ceasing to give them a way out towards the light. And he didn't let moderates off the hook either - he condemned them if they acted in such ways that enabled the evil to continue being evil. But the moderates always had a way out too. They didn't get lumped in with the asshats just by being in the same town or the same race or the same political party. They only got called out when they acted in such ways that enabled the asshats. And THEN MLK Jr. launched righteous condemnation on their ass, and it always came off as enlightened because it really was deserved.

We have to learn that kind of subtlety. We have to be able to create an atmosphere that is forthright and honest about what is wrong, that shames that which is evil, while still always giving the rest a chance to break towards the good.