Steve Sailer seconds my theory on why Borat is funny

More than a month ago I said: "Borat asks his viewers to laugh at racist jokes under the guise that it's really racism, not minorities, they're laughing it." Fans of Borat never agree with me when I say that in person.

Steve Sailer has a very similar post up today. I recommend reading the whole thing, but here are some key excerpts:

"The tendency of politically correct critics to develop meta-justifications for politically incorrect comics like Sara Silverman and Dave Chappelle -- 'They're not getting laughs from ethnic stereotypes, they're, uh, getting us to laugh at the stereotypicality of the stereotypes, you see. It's all very meta.' -- might be pretty funny if the comedians themselves sometimes didn't fall for this nonsense.

"The Jewish comedians like Baron Cohen and Silverman generally know how to play this game. Silverman, for example, occasionally throws in an intentionally stupid, untrue racial stereotype ('Mexicans smell bad') so all the nice white liberals in the audience can pretend her other stereotypes ('Asians are good at math') are dumb too, and that they are actually laughing at all those idiots conservatives who believe Asians are good at math, as if there is any such thing as race. Or math, for that matter.

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"The tragic case is Chappelle, who actually fell for the critics' wheeze that he wasn't poking fun at blacks, no, he was exposing the stereotypes held by bigoted white people who thought about blacks in the way Chappelle portrayed them. Then one day, a white man on his set laughed so hard, in such an un-meta way, that Chappelle finally realized that the whole meta theory was just white jive to justify laughing at funny black people. So, Chappelle ran off to South Africa and walked out on his $50 million contract."