Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/06/30/sacha-baron-cohen-trolls-conse.html
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So he gave them a bunch of money to troll them?
At this point you don’t need to encourage them to say racist shit, they’ll do it anyway.
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you didnt clap and sing along because you were duped. You did it because you wanted to.
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Yeah, unless there’s a couple dozen untranscribed n-words in there, that’s not really any different than the stuff they’ll all cheerfully go on the record saying/waving signs about. It’s not like this was the local GOP town hall, it was a right-wing fringe militia rally… we KNOW they’re racist.
This kind of stunt may have been a shocking reveal during the Obama era, now it’s par for the empowered racist demographic course.
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I’m not usually a fan of his movies, his characters, any of it. Is it weird that I like the person way more than anyone he’s ever portrayed?
Balls
Of.
Steel.
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I mean, very few of his characters are the types most people would likely want to spend much time with. Ali G perhaps being a notable exception – I’d definitely chill with Ali G.
But as far as his art/tradecraft? He’s insanely good. And from what I can tell he’s very intelligent, and is “coming from the right place” with what he does, even if some of it can fall a little flat. But some of the politicians and such that he’s totally bamboozled, and often embarrassed in the process? Simply by, essentially, being a bit of an exaggerated funhouse mirror of their own idiocy? Brilliant!
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He hired security (for himself) and paid to have a stage put up. I really doubt any money passed to them, he’s aware enough to know that would be counterproductive.
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Honestly don’t quite see the point.
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