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...pure comic genius when you see one. Shawn Fitzgerald Melrose, Massachusetts, U.S. Baron Cohen criticizes all the things Borat pretends to admire and uses Borat's faked attitudes and stories to reveal the hidden resentments within the people he encounters. As a Jew, Baron Cohen carries Borat's anti-Semitism to the extreme, thus making a laughingstock of it while also revealing the bigotry of the unsuspecting people he is fooling. Borat's imaginary Kazakhstan serves the same purpose. He is making fun not of Kazakhs but of arrogant, ignorant Westerners who overrate their own cultures. Dominik Mauer Augsburg, Germany...
...MADD anti-drunk-driving campaign doesn’t slow down for facts: En route to an accident-free utopia, who cares if our civil rights are run over. Many states already penalize drivers arrested for—not convicted of—drunk driving by revoking their license, and Los Angeles makes a tidy profit by seizing their cars as well. Washington, meanwhile, tells juries in DUI cases to “assume the truth of the prosecution’s...evidence” and make their decision “in a light most favorable to the prosecution...
...Boston area is certainly familiar with anti-transgender sentiment. The Day of Remembrance was established in 1999 to honor the death of Rita Hester, a transgender Allston resident who was stabbed to death the previous year...
...time has come for the anti-gay movement in America to do a bit of soul-searching. And, if the recent turmoil within its ranks is any indication, some serious therapy wouldn’t hurt either...
...discouraging students from going home for Thanksgiving and encouraging students who leave early to compromise their academics, Harvard unnecessarily promulgates an anti-family-friendly policy...