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...gags that pepper his routines. Borat in thong underwear may be designed to get a few chuckles, but when an enraged Kazakh crowd yells “Kill the Jew-egg before it hatches!” the laughs are enormous. Unlike the more benign jokes in his routines, Borat??s anti-Semitic ones are designed to provoke...
...that racism does not exist. If “Borat?? is any indication, it is alive and well. But not at Harvard. At Harvard, it has been bludgeoned to death for well over half a century, where, if it exists, it is now an ailing, sickly worm. Today, the most universal personal quality of white students at the College is guilt. Harvard’s classrooms have become her confessionals. We are nowhere, in short, near a plantation...
...that Borat is, in fact, not a Muslim (and even appears to have converted to Christianity by the end of the movie). There is also little evidence that Cohen tried to portray his character as a Muslim. Despite all this, a largely subconscious tension exists between the similarity of Borat??s “Muslim” attitudes and his claim not to be an adherent to Islam...
Overall, “Borat?? provides a relatively unthreatening forum for expressing people’s exasperation and anxiety about the West’s encounters with Islam. But it does so in an oblique way. We can laugh at Borat??s ridiculous anti-Semitism, without having to think about Ahmadinejad’s ominous statement that Israel should be “wiped...
...political discourse. But if America were not mired in Iraq and if Muslim relations with the West and the War on Terror—or as Borat calls it, the “War of Terror”—were not so important, “Borat?? would not have sold as many tickets as it has. The movie would still have been funny, but it would not have been the cultural event that it has become. Whether they realize it or not, many Americans seem to like the idea of laughing at Borat?...