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That video is quite funny. The logical conclusion.
glad someone got it
That video is quite funny. The logical conclusion.
Fair enough, I guess it's just a style of comedy more suited to people with an attention span longer than five minutes.
gervais is def a cunt and is maybe worse as he tries to hide it more and just seems to have no clue that hes a cunt.
I'd definitely put Baron-Cohen in the second of those groups since roughly the second series of Ali G though.
The first bit of the film didn't involve any Americans at all to be fair, just SBC reeling off some weak stereotypes about Kazakhs (or more accurately, whatever Kazakhs were meant to symbolise, non-white people you can get away with'comically' painting as uncultured/backward or whatever. Can you imagine if the character had been portrayed as Japanese or Liberian? I can't imagine the film ever getting made)
Underneath all this, two connected issues bubble away. First, as anyone halfway conversant with social theory could tell you, there is a strong sense of these pseudo-storms obscuring real issues about people's rights, the distribution of wealth and power, and what we now call institutionalised prejudice – something neatly dramatised by the way that the Boyle hoo-ha overshadowed the inspired protest about the involvement in the Paralympics of Atos, the corporation whose contract for work capability assessments makes them a byword for the government's unforgivable treatment of disabled people.
Second, it seems self-evident that vigilance about "hate speech" is in danger of curdling into a state of continuing hysteria. The police – the police! – investigate "bullying" on Twitter, drunken fools who issue "racist rants" on public transport go to jail, and, in response to such lunacies, fairly unpleasant people can easily become renowned martyrs. Put another way, while zero-tolerance comes hammering down on random targets, does Britain feel like a gentler, more accepting place? Not really. Such, perhaps, is what happens when you remove responsibility for human prejudice from the public realm and habitually call in the clunking fist of the state – which is a perverse consequence, to say the least.