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If he's trying to be funny, then it's not that funny because it's so obvious as to be trivial. I think the same of most of Sasha Baron Cohen's work: it's derivative and takes easy shots at easy (in some cases, unsuspecting) targets. People pay to see it, but I don't find it all that funny. My 11 year olds like it. They'd probably like this if recited in a fake foreign accent. Maybe 11 year olds are his target audience.
I might have reacted differently if he'd used a different icon and name. I just don't find mimicking people for whom English is a second language all that funny, unless it is very clever. This is just not clever enough to cross that threshold.
Andy Kaufman was a highly original and creative, comic genius. This stuff...not so much.
I hear what you are saying PFS74, and I too had initial reservations about this poster's schtick (and brought it up to the Administration Forum). However, the reaction from other posters has been so overwhelmingly positive and the tenor of Dikembe's posts seem to just be humor without bite.
Now all that being said, that is just my opinion from what I've seen - - if many others are truly hurt by this, I agree we should take it down.
Regarding people who are ESL, I can only reference Abdul7's post the other day to Dikembe:
Post#22
"HELLO DIKEMBE , WELCOME HERE. I AM ARAB SO GOOD I HAVE SOMEONE WITH ME FROM FAR AWAY. PATS FANS FROM FAR AWAY ARE GOOD NO ?
WELCOME BROTHER. WE MUST RUN JONAS GRAY MORE THIS SUNDAY. I HOPE JOSH READING NOW."