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Old 09-12-2020, 10:51 AM #1
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Thumbs down Hollywood Film Academy - want to ban BORAT as its RACIST



Advocacy groups are calling for the Borat sequel, starring Sacha Baron Cohen, to be barred
from the Oscars and Golden Globes for “promoting racism in entertainment” and “portraying
Kazakh people as misogynistic, incestuous, anti-Semitic, and barbarous.”


Several advocacy organizations have called for Borat Subsequent Moviefilm to be banned
from competing in the industry’s awards after the film earned an Oscar nomination and two
Golden Globe nominations, according to a report by Fox News. The organizations say that
Sacha Baron Cohen’s flick is guilty of “normalizing, promoting and monetizing whitewashing,
ethnic stereotyping, cultural appropriation and racism in entertainment.”


“Mr. Cohen went beyond any moral or ethical standards in portraying Kazakh people as misogynistic,
incestuous, anti-Semitic, and barbarous,” said Gia Noortas, CEO of Hollywood Film Academy.
“Due to this harmful misrepresentation, more Kazakhs today will face racial abuse, bullying,

humiliation, and dehumanization.”

The groups are now “calling on the film award organizations worldwide to publicly condemn
whitewashing and cultural appropriation, stand against racism and racial hatred and remove Mr. Cohen,
his cast, crew and film ‘Borat Subsequent Moviefilm’ from their respective competitions this year.”

“We understand that the nature of comedy is to test the limits of what is acceptable,
but not at our nation’s expense,” acknowledged Noortas, who went on to say that the film is nonetheless “racism, period.”

“It’s racism, period,” said Noortas. “Racial abuse of Kazakh minority should not be the

last refuge of racism in Hollywood. Kazakh women have become targets for harassment,
Kazakh children are being bullied, Kazakhs worldwide face discrimination.”

Borat Subsequent Moviefilm is the sequel to the 2006 mockumentary-style comedy Borat.
The film follows Kazakhstani journalist Borat, as makes his return to the United States, this time with his daughter
— played by Maria Bakalova — where the two attempt to carry out a “secret mission.”

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That and the fact its a terrible film and shouldn't be considered for prestigious awards regardless.
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good, and i cannot disagree with them at all


he's placing misinformation about kazakhstan with his rubbish movie anyway, that this rubbish even got a sequel is undeserving


stick to stand up comedy Sacha
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good, and i cannot disagree with them at all


he's placing misinformation about kazakhstan with his rubbish movie anyway, that this rubbish even got a sequel is undeserving


stick to stand up comedy Sacha
and Jurrasic park is spreading scientific misinformation to children so lets ban that?
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I can see why the kazakhstani people would be offended although it's pretty clear it's not a serious portrayal either
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I can see why the kazakhstani people would be offended although it's pretty clear it's not a serious portrayal either
I think most nations have been lampooned in films over the years
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It's a Comedy fgs!

Films should only be being banned imo if they promote murder of innocent people, rape, or paedophilia as heroic things. Otherwise just don't watch.
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Its Comedy
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Tom Cruise should have been arrested after Far and Away tbf
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And Shrek is offensive to ogres. .. lol
My guess it's got more to do with an embarrassed lawyer hehehe
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I can see why the kazakhstani people would be offended although it's pretty clear it's not a serious portrayal either
Yeah it's unfortunate really that he had to choose a random country to "hail from" to amplify the West's ignorances. To take it at face value: yeah it's offensive to Kazakhstan. But the point of the character is to mock our own preconceptions of countries and cultures we know nothing about, and criticise our sense of "better than them".

I do wonder if he could have made up a country or region to hail from and got the same results and meetings.
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Yeah it's unfortunate really that he had to choose a random country to "hail from" to amplify the West's ignorances. To take it at face value: yeah it's offensive to Kazakhstan. But the point of the character is to mock our own preconceptions of countries and cultures we know nothing about, and criticise our sense of "better than them".
Yes exactly, it's more of a tool to unleash the inner(and not so inner in a lot of places) bigot in people
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No, at least not entirely

and it is fiction
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Borat is a fictional character played by Sacha Baron Cohen, he's also played characters called Ali G and Bruno
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...I was just frozen at cringe all the way through...but somehow I found it very feel good as well in the relationship dynamics...I’m not sure how that happened but...I kind of liked it...

...(...not a watch again movie, though..)...
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Sacha likes controversy i guess, with stereotypes

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...he’s a really underrated actor, I think ...
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...he’s a really underrated actor, I think ...
no hardly underrated, more overrated
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no hardly underrated, more overrated
Pretty conclusive opinion to draw, given you didn't have a single clue what his performances entailed less than an hour ago.

He's not a stand up, either.
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Pretty conclusive opinion to draw, given you didn't have a single clue what his performances entailed less than an hour ago.

He's not a stand up, either.
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for Borat, creating a disgusting stereotype, most kazakhi people are most definitely nothing like that

for Bruno another disgusting stereotype, surprises me he didn't get complaints from LGBTQ+ community

for Ali G, well just a dumb weirdo who tries to come across as a rapper


overall Sacha is a one trick pony, and thankfully controversial twats never win any awards
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for Borat, creating a disgusting stereotype, most kazakhi people are most definitely nothing like that

for Bruno another disgusting stereotype, surprises me he didn't get complaints from LGBTQ+ community

for Ali G, well just a dumb weirdo who tries to come across as a rapper


overall Sacha is a one trick pony, and thankfully controversial twats never win any awards
Except these ones

2006 – Won: Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor.
2006 – Won: San Francisco Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor.
2006 – Won: Toronto Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor.
2006 – Won: Deutscher Comedypreis (German comedy award) for Best International Comedy.
2007 – Won: Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Comedy/Musical
2007 – Won: MTV Movie Award for Best Comedic Performance
2007 – Won: Evening Standard British Film Awards: Peter Sellers award for Best Comedy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacha_...nd_nominations
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