{"id":814,"date":"2006-11-14T07:53:10","date_gmt":"2006-11-14T07:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2006\/11\/14\/the-judgement-of-borat\/"},"modified":"2006-11-14T07:53:10","modified_gmt":"2006-11-14T07:53:10","slug":"the-judgement-of-borat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/11\/14\/the-judgement-of-borat\/","title":{"rendered":"The Judgement of Borat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scott Aaronson <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottaaronson.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/public-relations-101.html\">renders a judgement on the <cite>Borat<\/cite> movie<\/a> (scroll down into the comments), but I think my opinion is best summed up by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonmonthly.com\/archives\/individual\/2006_11\/010221.php\">Kevin Drum<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>[T]he lesson of the movie wasn&#8217;t some razor-sharp subversive point about how we&#8217;re all racists and xenophobes an inch under the surface, the lesson was that if you act like a complete whack job you can get ordinary people flustered and flummoxed. This doesn&#8217;t really strike me as any kind of surprise.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This can be sort of amusing in five-minute chunks, but I don&#8217;t think it would hold up for a full-length movie. As a result, I have no intention of paying good money to see this in the theater.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scott Aaronson renders a judgement on the Borat movie (scroll down into the comments), but I think my opinion is best summed up by Kevin Drum: [T]he lesson of the movie wasn&#8217;t some razor-sharp subversive point about how we&#8217;re all racists and xenophobes an inch under the surface, the lesson was that if you act&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/11\/14\/the-judgement-of-borat\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Judgement of Borat<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}