Dear Neal Brannon, loved your second (and first) Netflix special, quick favour - please don’t call Borat a legend, it is in fact a hugely racist film derogatory to Central Asians. Many white folks are not aware of this, does not mean it’s ok.
Kazakh writer and translator on how being mockingly called a “borat” triggered childhood memories of ethnic & racial slurs she heard growing up under Soviet regime
Read her article here: https://t.co/qRby6e2AcM
#WeAreNotYourJoke#NoAwardForBorat#CancelBorat#StopHateForProfit
I've been feeling truly sick about the racist depictions of Central Asians in the Borat films, and I felt the need to write about it. #antiAsianhate
https://t.co/LF8oYFvRTL
Here is one of many examples of how damaging #borat is for #kazakh ethnic community in the West. Each and every one of us had felt the harmful impact of the borat stereotype that has nothing to do with our indigenous nation and its proud culture. #whitewashing#racism