Maybe Sacha Baron Cohen = Stanley Milgram?

The Forward reported two years ago that Sacha Baron Cohen was playing clubs as Borat, in a singalong urging the audience to throw Jews "down the well" to purify his country. Sounds like he's modeling Stanley Milgram, the Yale psychologist whose famous experiment induced its unwitting subjects to turn up the electric shocks for every bad answer from a supposed test subject, screaming in pain through the walls from another room. Thereby answering the question: Will otherwise decent people follow murderous orders? Cohen seems to be testing an antisemitic principle of human nature.
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