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Isn't it ironic that this is said by Sacha Baron Cohen, who made a fortune from creating fake characters that attempt to trigger folks with existing prejudices?
by juanbyrge 7y ago
Isn't it ironic that this is said by Sacha Baron Cohen, who made a fortune from creating fake characters that attempt to trigger folks with existing prejudices? His characters try to get a reaction from people's antisemitism, islamiphobia, bigotry, etc.. I am not at all disagreeing with what he is saying in the video, and I love all of his content, but it strikes me as hypocritical. Why is it okay for him to gain personally from provoking these reactions from people, yet it is evil when others do the same?
- threeseed 7y agoIt's about the aims. Sacha Baron Cohen does it for comedic effect. Others do it to influence elections, destabilise societies, hurt minorities etc.
- 0x445442 7y agoI think it would be reasonable to conjecture that part of the reason he does it is to hurt, or at least humiliate, those he doesn't agree with politically and thus, to indirectly influence elections.
- cycrutchfield 7y agoBy that logic, any action we take indirectly influences elections. See how ridiculous this reductionist argument is?
- 0x445442 7y agoAbout as ridiculous as suggesting Cohen's only motivation is comedy.
- cycrutchfield 7y agoHmmm, I’m starting to feel like you might be sympathetic to the kind of people that Cohen is satirizing. Perhaps you may even share their same viewpoints as well. Did you feel personally attacked by ”Who Is America”?
- 0x445442 7y agoNope, just pointing out the cognitive dissonance.
- m4r35n357 7y agoNo it isn't ironic. You just have a very poor sense of priority and scale.
- cycrutchfield 7y agoSo what I am reading is that you don’t understand the distinction between satirizing bigots and actually being a bigot?
- melq 7y agoIt isn't ironic, his work was satire.