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In response to
"I’m not convinced his “give a man enough rope to hang himself with” approach to comedy really works the way he thinks it does. -- (edited)"
by
znoooooooo!!!
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Agreed. His overall points are right, but the way people react to his characters is more a function...
Posted by
Inigo (aka Inigo)
Oct 21 '20, 07:05
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...that everyday people just aren't equipped to push against a charismatically insistent personality. He's expecting people to tell him how wrong he is, and that's just not how most of population works.
To be clear, I'm not talking about the people who've said or done horrible racist things in front of Borat/Ali G etc..., but more the people who didn't call out Borat for his antisemitism.
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