On 26 August, Sacha Baron Cohen and Sony Pictures showed off the new Ali G sequel. The response — it’s fair to say — has not been positive. And now, campaigners are asking cinemas to not show the film, with one UK chain already confirming the following:

Cohen is receiving backlash for three primary reasons. The first is that the character is basically just Cohen doing blackface:

When Ali G first came out, the joke was seemingly pastiching white guys who appropriated what they saw as Black culture in London.

Whether you bought that joke or not, it’s clearly worn thin to the point of being non-existent at this point, and as such people are understandably taking the character to be Cohen’s impression of Black people.

  • alekwithak@lemmy.world
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    18 days ago

    Oh, now I’m a “cracker” too?

    And I’m the “Dumb Fucking Racist?”

    I get your point and met your point and tried to have a genuine discussion with you and you meet me in turn with ire and actual slurs. There goes any shred of credibility you might have had. Did you read I Have A Dream?

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      18 days ago

      Your “points” are entitled egoist nonsense whose only purpose is to avoid accepting that maybe you shouldn’t be using a slur just because you LOVE saying it so much because your shallow, entitled racist ass doesn’t have the capacity for self reflection or accepting that you might possibly have a character flaw you could work on by just not being such a tacky piece of shit about a worthless slur.

      .world mother fuckers, lmao 🤣, unironically they’re going to try to “take back porch monkeys” next