This is a question and i'm not trying to dunk on the tweet

I thought the main reason why those were bad because it mocked black people and they were the target of the ridicule, and while Cohen uses a similar technique in Borat he is targeting Americans as part of his satire, not Kazakhs.

I saw a criticism in vein of "People he can mock by making them think Kazakhs are actually like this would also believe that there is a country called Loftristan and its people act like that" and i can accept that, but comparison to blackface makes almost zero sense to me.

  • cilantrofellow [any]
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    4 years ago

    Most of the qanon people would believe loftristan, but maybe not someone like Giuliani or other gov officials.

    I do not think it’s blackface and I’d argue that suggestion on its own is problematic. But his portrayal does betray a priority on who to communicate with and who to consider respectfully when creating the story.