You know, the continuing absolute stupidity of critics never fails to annoy me. Their response to Borat, of course, is no exception. Actually, it's not just the critics at fault here, it's everybody, the whole hypocritical American malaise. If there's one thing I don't have respect for, it's people who don't stand by their own principles.

Now, Borat was funny enough. But let's face it, it was a shitty little spin off of some sketch comedy show and worthy of no greater praise than something like Wayne's world. But no, the critics have anointed Borat as some sort of vastly significant social barometer.

Jesus Christ.

I read one review (and I generally have to read five or six reviews before I really get worked up) that said Borat's clever narrative device (of suckering people into a video interview under false pretenses) always revealed prejudices that the subjects wouldn't have admitted to themselves.

What?

OK, so you're some kind of bigot if you get pissed off when some foreign stranger invites a prostitute into your house? Why? Because the prostitute happened to be black? Do you think they would have all sat down to dinner if it had been a white prostitute?

God, this witch hunt to find racists and assoles is becoming really annoying. Sure, racism exists, it's a problem, but there is no reason to destroy otherwise good people because you treated them like shit and they eventually got provoked to the point where they retaliated.

Borat shits on the trump building, he masturbates in public, and if we don't accept his racial diversity, we're intolerant? That's nonsense.

Actually, and I'm no grand fan of the typical Annoying American attitude, I thought most of Borat's victims accounted themselves pretty well. The whole concept of "trick video" seems a little underhanded, and unfair. For example, Borat is well aware that Americans are told to be tolerant of the beliefs of other nations, but then he claims to be anti-Semitic. So what are people supposed to do, be disrespectful to Borat, or be disrespectful to the Jews? Borat (and I'm just not bothering to look up the actor's name, even though it would be more appropriate here) knows that, so he just tricks people into situations they can't win. Either way he's going to get good footage for his movie.

The movie had some funny moments, but it missed the mark and settled for cheap laughs where it could have done some real social probing. If Borat had asked more pointed questions, he might have actually made the movie the critics thought he did. For example, the forum with the feminists was wide open to all manner of belief-system prodding (they all got up and left remember, if they were such strong people, why didn't they try to educate Borat into their way of thinking). But the feminists didn't receive any criticism for their actions and neither did Borat, so tell me, who's in the wrong here? The fucking viewer? Who's the bigot?

Whatever.

I liked the part about the bear.

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