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I agree with you about Cohen in general. But there is actually a twist at the end of Dictator - his "99%" speech - which could point in a new direction. 18 maj 2012 kl. 05:10 skrev Nick Fredman: > ====================================================================== > Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > ====================================================================== > > > Shane Mage <shm...@pipeline.com> referred to: > > <http://www.salon.com/2012/05/16/sacha_baron_cohens_dark_political_farce/singleton> > > From this review: > >>> we see the bearded North African tyrant Admiral General Aladeen, portrayed >>> of course by Baron Cohen, playing a first-person-shooter video game called >>> „Munich Olympics.‰ You‚re groaning already, right? << > > Yep I'm groaning as it sounds like very poor and unfunny satire. Satire to > work should have some relation to the real social world. The problem is that > Cohen's work is directed at the West where where anti-Jewish prejudice is > very marginal, even among much of the far right (UK BNP and EDL, French FN) > and anti-semitism is most often raised as a slander against anti-Zionists. As > this alleged joke appears to do. Cohen shows little or no sympathy for the > victims of the racism that is actually endemic in mainstream discourse. > ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
