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Sacha Baron Cohen

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Comedian and creator of Borat, criticized as a hypocrite for complaining about stereotypes and misinformation while his career relied on portraying Kazakhs stereotypically and editing people out of context.

Mentions (8)
"Guy whines about anti-semitism and Jewish stereotypes after an entire career of portraying Khazakh's as moronic, anti-semitic bigots. Gives weeping speeches at ADL award ceremonies about the need to regulate misinformation, even though his movies only work by editing people out of context to make th"
"Sacha Baron Cohen is a wealthy (old money) Cambridge-educated (where he studied anti-semitism) Brit who travels the US humiliating the impoverished and often the mentally ill. I HATE BORAT. I hate Sacha Baron Cohen. This movie will age VERY BADLY"
Why does Borat seem to get a pass for its egregious classism · SixFingersOnLeftHand · ↑505 · 2023-06-15
"It looks like Rebel Wilson is writing a takedown piece of Sacha Baron Cohen. Apparently, he's hired a crisis PR team to get in front of it, so seems like it could be pretty bad. I'm not going to pretend that I don't find some of his stuff funny, but yeah, super unsurprising that the dude's an asshol"
Sacha Baron Cohen · u/starfishboy123 · ↑358 · 2024-03-25
"just when you thought he couldn't get more annoying"
So Sacha Baron Cohen is ripped now · u/Zhopastinky · ↑145 · 2025-07-24
"Anyway I still think it was one of the most funny things on TV ever and infinitely rewatchable, but Sacha Baron Cohen is a pretentious cunt who isn't funny unless he's basically doing the equivalent of YouTube pranks in Muslim-face"
Borat is Hasbara level propoganda · u/Ian_Huntley_ · ↑104 · 2025-04-17
"Woketards: This movie is inherently racist because an Englishman is pretending to be from the middle east and using them as a caricature. Libs: This is funny shit. It's cool that Sacha Baron Cohen is using his film to make people laugh **AND** think. This yet again proves the political power of sati"
The discourse on the new Borat film: · u/Federalbulgaria · ↑73 · 2020-10-26
"sacha baron cohen took a camera crew to an impoverished little village in Kazakhstan and lied to em and humiliated them and they tried for a lawsuit. And it was hilarious! But whenever the TIL gets reposted Redditors rush to his defense 'Borat doesn't punch down. The punchline of the joke is how whi"
"sacha baron cohen took a camera crew to an impoverished little village in Kazakhstan and lied to em and humiliated them and they tried for a lawsuit. And it was hilarious!"
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