True. He did not try to get the higher ranking Republicans to drop their pants, one may notice - because he has a good idea going in of how far he can push. But I agree, out there surely ypu could find some (D) State Assemblymen or city councilmembers who’d be down for some Deep Stupid.
Right, just different kinds of stupid, like believing that all illnesses are curable with the right diet, that modern medicine is a scam, or other quackery.
On this most recent episode I was astounded when Roy Moore authoritatively stated that Alabama is historically known for believing in freedom and equality. Like, what?
Then I started laughing my ass off when Cohen used the pedophile scanner on him.
I’m not saying he couldn’t find dumb progressives and troll them hard, but it’s not going to be pulling down his pants because he believes it will terrify members of the KKK. I don’t necessarily think that Spencer was necessarily stupid. He might know how to rebuild automobiles and write code for all I know - but he’s still living in a world of strong biases and perceptions, and he Cohen was feeding those biases.
In fact, right after Cohen (the instructor) corrects him about the n-word, there’s a moment at which it almost seems that Spencer kinda suspects, just for an instant, that he might be getting pranked. It’s an awkward moment. He could have backed out there. But he didn’t. Why? Because he Cohen was feeding his perceptions of reality about Muslims, and Spencer believed in it so strongly that he felt compelled to continue his mission, even when it was already beginning to dawn on him that he was humiliating himself. And that’s one of the most important points that Cohen’s little experiment teaches us: people will go to unimaginably ridiculous lengths to defend and act on their own biases. Now if someone is willing to scream racial epithets and pull down his ass crack and walk around like a toddler who just shit his pants in an attempt to fight Islam…what else do you think he might be capable of to attack his perceived enemies?
Remember, too, until last week, this was a member of a pretty high elected office, someone with real power, who was voted into power by thousands of like-minded people.
They’d all run away screaming when they saw his fat, pasty white tuchus, I guess.
SBC’s brand of humor is too off the wall even for me.
I don’t even think these are the proper comparisons, since these are all well known and people already have opinions about them.
But suppose you had some guy posing (via media entity vouching) as a reputable geologist warning that the Earth’s crust could completely collapse from any more fracking (or something like that). I bet you would pull in quite a lot of elected leftists to participate in PR announcements decrying the possibility, ridiculous as it would seem once the taping is done and everyone is mocking it.
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[/QUOTE]Well…you win.