Sacha Baron Cohen

Sacha Baron Cohen    (comedian, propagandist)
Born	1971-10-13 Hammersmith, London, England
Nationality	UK
Alma mater	Cambridge University/Christ's College
Children	3
Spouse	Isla Fisher
Claiming to be a provocateur, he reinforces enemy images of groups the liberal establishment needs to dehumanize to attack: rednecks, Arabs, Eastern Europeans, Central Asians..

Sacha Baron Cohen is a UK comedian whose activities include the creation of outrageous fictional characters in movies such as Borat (2006), Brüno (2009), and The Dictator (2012)

Claiming to be a provocateur, thus bypassing what would otherwise be crude ethnic stereotypes, he helps maintain enemy images to dehumanize Eastern Europeans, Central Asians, Arabs and other "lesser breeds" in areas where the US/NATO/Israeli war machine is active.

His comedy also helps keep maintain the US liberal establishment's enemy image of flyover country United States as populated by stupid, racists rednecks similar to the ones abroad, to be contained and never be let near power, as showed in their reaction to Donald Trump's 2016 electoral win.

Zionism

Palestinian activist Steven Salaita pointed out

There is a disturbing connection to be made between Baron Cohen’s Zionist politics and his willingness to exploit real communities and to bastardize ethnic imagery. Zionism, an ideology that can accommodate liberal and humanistic discourses, cannot be practiced without a concomitant abrogation of the rights of those who are not Jewish, a reality that becomes even more severe when we consider that the vast majority of Palestine’s indigenous inhabitants are Muslim and Christian.

The first rule of good satire is to ridicule sites of entrenched power, not to reinforce them. Racial satire is even trickier, for many a would-be satirist has used the cover of humor to buttress racist paradigms, something Baron Cohen does when he satirizes groups of people that are elsewhere victims of his troublesome politics.

Sacha Baron Cohen is not a maverick. He is an apparatchik of Hollywood’s most profitable brand.

£3 for being humiliated

In showing Borat’s origin at the start of the movie Borat (2006), Baron Cohen ditched the sound stage in favor of a real village in Romania, whose dirt poor residents "were appalled to learn that the documentary they thought Baron Cohen was filming turned out to be a degrading parody" presenting the villagers as subhuman. Those who participated were paid £3 for being presented as a backward group of rapists, abortionists and prostitutes, who happily also engage in casual incest. Borat grossed more than $260 million.

Random VIPaedophile find?

In December 2018, Deadline reported that at the time of the exposure of Harvey Weinstein, Sacha Baron Cohen had filmed a concierge in Las Vegas who had offered to help him find a lawyer to assist with similar difficulties. Sacha Baron Cohen then asked whether the concierge could find him an underage boy as a date and the concierge agreed. His team turned his video footage over to the FBI "because we thought, perhaps there's a pedophile ring in Las Vegas that's operating for these very wealthy men, and this concierge had said that he’d worked for politicians and various billionaires." The FBI were uninterested.

"The greatest propaganda machine in history"

In 2019, Sacha Baron Cohen spoke about "hate speech", calling for restrictions on free speech, terming social media "the greatest propaganda machine in history".

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