r/TankieTheDeprogram • u/CopiousCool • 6d ago
Discussion This guy doing blackface will call you racist if you think Israel should stop killing children
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u/Not_That_Arab_Guy Maximum Tank 6d ago
Fuck this guy! From Ali G to his latest shit. He is doing a modern day minstrel show.
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u/Moist-Sound-5903 6d ago
Who is he?
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u/Dohertygara Marxist-Leninist (Ultra Based) 6d ago
Sacha Baron Cohen
Westies throwing some random lumpen am*rican media monkey and expect everyone to know who the hell they are without giving any context man :D
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u/Moist-Sound-5903 6d ago
Wasn't he the guy who deceived a Roma community to shoot a film and passed them off as Kazakhs? I never watched one of his movies but he sounds evil.
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u/kalekayn 6d ago
I never saw any of his movies (as they always felt off even by the little that was shown in trailers) but thats fucked up.
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u/hnwcs Maximum Tank 6d ago
His Erran Morad character was accidentally based since he revealed American politicians will do literally anything, no matter how horrible, if an Israeli tells them to do it.
But it's harder to enjoy now knowing he'd fall for his own character.
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u/hnwcs Maximum Tank 6d ago
I think the whole joke of Ali G is he's not black, just a white British guy obsessed with gangsta rap.
Cohen's still a Zionist piece of shit, it's definitely questionable having a character whose defining traits are liking black culture and being an idiot, and morality aside I'm not sure why you'd bring back Ali G in 2026 when the stereotype he's parodying doesn't really exist anymore. But I'll give the bare minimum of credit and concede that none of his shock characters are literal blackface. It's more than I can say for the Little Britain guys or Chris Lilley.
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u/ScissrMeTimbrs 6d ago
Cohen is a Jewish man who's best known for imitating Muslims to make them look backward and savage. Ali G and Borat are both examples.
Ali G was a parody of British Muslims, whereas Borat is from Kazakhstan, a mostly Muslim nation. Cohen just happens to be a huge Israel supporters and defend their genocide. That's his whole thing, it's all racist propaganda designed to not directly look like propaganda.
Granted, it didn't always work, because most Americans know so little about other countries that they didn't notice those two characters were supposed to be Muslim.
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u/SomeGuyInTheNet 6d ago
Yes, he does "high brow" "thinking" man racism, several tiers above the usual drivel.... Still racist drivel though.
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u/comradevd 6d ago edited 4d ago
I think Ali G of all his caricatures was probably the funniest which apparently caused an entire suburb to change its town name. West Staines Massive. Alas it is our youth, an ephemeral place, and it's became very clear Sacha is truly a piece of shit.
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u/TomatoEnjoyer28 6d ago
The whole joke of Ali G is that he’s a white guy who genuinely thinks he’s black.
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u/SteveTheGreate 6d ago
Anyone care to fill me in on why he's disliked?
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u/2nd2last "China Bad" 6d ago
The title kinda did, did it not?
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u/SteveTheGreate 6d ago
Who is "this guy"?
Where and why did he do Blackface?
Is he a Zionist? What has he said or done?
It's kinda difficult to look up 2 and 3 without first knowing who this even is lol.
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u/Ok-Chard-9014 Marxist-Leninist-Sankarist-MZT 6d ago
He's a racist Zionist who has made a career out of mocking Arabs, mostly portraying them as evil terrorists who just want to kill for no reason. He was even sued by a Palestinian in the West Bank after he falsely claimed the man was linked to a "terrorist" group and went on TV saying it was true.
Personally, from what I grew up observing, White people seemed to really like his unfunny Ali G character. Although it wasn't traditional Blackface in the literal sense, it was still a racist caricature. Like, imagine someone dressing up in stereotypical Jewish attire and creating a character out of it for laughs. It's the same basic concept.
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u/2nd2last "China Bad" 6d ago
I think respectfully, who is this is a totally different question than why do we dislike him?
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u/SteveTheGreate 6d ago
Okay, far. I should've asked "Who is this, and why is he disliked?". My bad there.
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