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In the mid-2000s, the character of Borat Sagdiyev, as played by Sacha Baron Cohen, became a pop culture phenomenon. The character’s origins were Baron Cohen playing similar foreign characters on F2F and Comedy Nation. Eventually, Sagdiyev made his debut on Da Ali G Show. He would appear in the form of interviews with unsuspecting people in the United Kingdom and United States.

Eventually, in 2006, the character would be given his own movie, Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan. Produced for a modest $18 million, the movie would end up grossing $262.8 million worldwide. Additionally, it received an Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay and Baron Cohen won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Motion Picture-Musical or Comedy.

However, with the movie’s popularity, there was a non-insignificant amount of people who seemed to have misinterpreted it. Essentially, these people laugh with Sagdiyev’s prejudices, particularly against women and Jewish people. These people may not be quite as extreme as Sagdiyev’s views, but they like seeing, in their view, ownage against these people.

An example of this is in a scene when Sagdiyev visits a feminist group in New York City, New York. While there, they explain to him that women should be equal in various matters, to which Sagdiyev starts laughing. He proceeds to explain that women have smaller brains than men and makes other sexist comments.

Later in the movie, Sogdiyev and his sidekick, Azamot Bagatov, go to a bed and breakfast hotel operated by an elderly Jewish couple. When they are given food, they believe they are being poisoned by the couple. Eventually, insects appear in their room, Sogdiyev believes that the couple transformed themselves into these. The solution he comes up with is to throw money at them, in an effort to distract them (using the greedy Jewish person trope), as they escaped.

In each of these cases, Sogdiyev’s views are supposed to be repulsive, with the people on the receiving end having done nothing to earn this ridicule. Meanwhile, there are other scenes where he encounters people in America who actually have these types of views, which Sogiyev, the character, lets be said unchallenged. The fact that these views get endorsed by Sogdiyev should already raise a red flag, seeing that he is meant to be a bigot.

In one scene, Sogdiyev performs before a rodeo in Salem, Virginia. Before this, he meets with Bobby Rowe, the General Manager of Imperial Rodeo, who makes various Islamophobic and homophobic comments, which Sogdiyev gives support to.

Later, he meets students from the University of South Carolina, who make claims that seem to support slavery and claim that minorities have the true power in the United States. During this scene, Sogdiyev does not challenge the people.

It should be noted that Baron Cohen, as Sogdiyev, managed to mock right-wing politics and views in the movie, but only in a form that could be interpreted as a person being in support of it, but not speaking good English, meaning some phrases are theoretically said wrong, which is why the people who identify with Sogdiyev are not offended by it. For example, in the aforementioned rodeo sequence, Sogdiyev attacks then-President of the United States George W. Bush and the Iraq War, which he calls the “war of terror”, rather than the War on Terror.

Perhaps due to the responses to the Borat movie, the sequel, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm, is much more direct in mocking the political right-wing. As examples, there are scenes where Sogdiyev, dressed as President Donald Trump, heckles Vice President Mike Pence and, using his daughter Tutar Sagdiyev, tricking former Mayor of New York City, New York Rudy Guiliani into participating in an interview, which he concluded by touching her and appearing to start touching his genitalia.

It is now starting to occur to certain people that Borat Sogdiyev was not on their side.