Digested week: no sympathy for the second most awful man in America – The Guardian

Monday
Ive always felt sorry for the victims of Sacha Baron Cohen, no matter how much they seem to deserve it. He plays on their vanity and eggs them on to say terrible things, but he also hoodwinks them using something less laudable: the desire, present in most people, to avoid causing someone else in this case, Baron Cohens buffoonish alter egos social pain or embarrassment.
There is, it turns out, an exception to this weakness of mine, a person Im only too happy to see Baron Cohen torment. Step…

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