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Re:Sacha Baron Cohen Uses ADL Speech to Tear Apart Mark Zuck... by core-questions on Friday November 22, 2019 @12:10PM (#21607539)
Well, you're either employing tactical nihilism or you truly do need more tea. Cohen has shown himself to enjoy manipulating rubes in social contexts where the pressure to perform is present, not entirely dissimilar from how hypnotists work in crowd situations. Rather than letting it be all in good fun, though, Cohen has made people say offensive things, and then uses it to pretend it's what those people really think rather than admitting it's 99% social pressure.
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Re:Sacha Baron Cohen Uses ADL Speech to Tear Apart Mark Zuck... by sharkmerry on Friday November 22, 2019 @12:29PM (#21607745)
Is your argument that none of the people Sacha has gotten to say things, actually believe those? Its just pressure to perform, so EVERYONE would say things they dont believe if put in the same position?
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Re:Sacha Baron Cohen Uses ADL Speech to Tear Apart Mark Zuck... by SpicyLemonZest on Friday November 22, 2019 @12:59PM (#21608111)
Yes. I'm confident that a charismatic person could walk into any bar anywhere in the world, and get some of the people there to sing along with an offensive song. I'm not quite sure how someone who's familiar with bars or alcohol in general could doubt this.

I'm equally confident that most of the people who sang along did not actually want to throw Jews down a well.

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Re:Sacha Baron Cohen Uses ADL Speech to Tear Apart Mark Zuck... by Udik on Friday November 22, 2019 @12:51PM (#21608021)
Cohen is a great comedian, but I suspect he also has the skills of a con-artist, or a hypnotiser: he manages to get people to "sing along" with him well beyond what is normal and reasonable, and then ridicules them. It's funny, sometimes very interesting, sometimes leaves you a bit suspicious.
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Re:Sacha Baron Cohen Uses ADL Speech to Tear Apart Mark Zuck... by handelaar on Friday November 22, 2019 @12:38PM (#21607859)
That, and he's also arguing that they're all somehow the victims of a hate crime.
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Re:Sacha Baron Cohen Uses ADL Speech to Tear Apart Mark Zuck... by jonbarker on Friday November 22, 2019 @02:08PM (#21608857)
One distinction though, the rubes he targets are generally rubes with some level of power or influence. That's kind of the point.
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