Sacha Baron Cohen’s “Who Is America?” offers scathing commentary on 2018 America
Posted by Josh Taylor / July 21, 2018
In the wake of World War II, as the Cold War was dawning, the American identity was certain. We were the defenders of freedom. We held values rooted in the Enlightenment, Protestant Christianity, and a clear racial and gender hierarchy. The civil rights movements of the 1960s and 1970s reacted against some of the injustices in those values and, as a result, shook the American identity to its core. Who is America, now? That’s what Sacha Baron Cohen’s new Showtime show asks, and he asks that question exactly as a comedian should: by pushing the limits of who we are and what we believe to the point of absurdity.
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wow! To be honest I am a little creeped out by the picture, but interesting blog!