[lbo-talk] Borat

[sean.andrews]

Michael Pugliese wrote:
>> Along these lines, I'll also mention that there is a controversy brewing
>> here at GMU because a white student went to a Halloween party dressed in
>> blackface, wearing chains and torn clothes.  I'm sure this could be spun
>> as some sort of subversive act, but some things can be considered in such
>> bad taste that they are simply not funny.
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>   http://www.democracy-project.com/archives/002893.html
>   Penn President Poses with "Suicide Bomber"
> http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1423506/posts
>   Har, har, har. We Are All Hezbollah!
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As for the Freeper crap I'm familiar with this propaganda strategy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=441LRDyOD3w

I'm also intrigued by the reason these Campus Watch folks find it 
problematic: not because this is the only representation we get of the 
Palestinians or Arabs but because it is assumed that this Middle Eastern 
kid is advocating violence in his stereotypical portrayal.  Notably, 
this is the thing he apologizes for, not his reinforcement among this 
crowd of the characteristically violent Arab, something which they 
seemed to regard as commonplace.  I guess you'd agree.

-s