So we know the release date and it is next Friday. I thought about how to make complaining easier for you and below is a much less passionate than mine :) and simplified email with the relevant email addresses and subject line, all you need to do is copy and paste - please do so today and ask friends and family to do the same! You can complain from anywhere as long as it is in English!
Итак, мы знаем дату выхода "Борат 2" на платформе Амазон Прайм Видео - это следующая пятница. Неимоверно важно, чтобы ваши жалобы, а также жалобы ваших родственников и друзей, дошли до Амазон как можно скорее (на английском). Чтобы помочь вам в этом, я упростила и укоротила шаблон жалобы - ниже, привела строку Тема (Subject) и имейл адреса, на которые жалобу нужно отправить, чтобы вы могли просто скопировать и вставить текст в имейл и незамедлительно его отправить! Неважно где вы, отправьте вашу жалобу сегодня!
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To: jeff@amazon.com, AmazonDigitalUK@amazon.com
Subject: Openly racist programming on Amazon Prime Video
Dear Mr Bezos, team,
I wanted to bring to your attention that “Borat 2”, the film that Prime Video are preparing to release on October 23rd, is extremely racist to Asian people and that you should not release it.
In it, a white celebrity Mr Cohen openly racially abuses and culturally appropriates a whole Asian nation. The fact that this extremely racist film has passed Prime Video's legal and quality checks without being flagged is a testament to how deep rooted systemic racism is. White privilege unfortunately has a double standard - if Mr Cohen’s character was black or Jewish, Amazon - or anyone - would refuse to support it. In fact, how is "Borat 2" different from blackface? Mr Cohen intentionally chose a relatively unknown Asian nation and by doing so continues to normalise offensive and deeply traumatising racism for laughs. He says his film is about Trump and exposing ignorance, yet look closer and Mr Cohen's humour is no better, if not worse, than Trump's racist slurs.
More than 100k Kazakhs and supporters in total have signed several petitions to raise awareness of the mental torment and racial abuse inflicted on us by the first “Borat” (here: https://secure.avaaz.org/community_petitions/ru/president_of_kazakhstan_republic_ministry_of_cultu_why_borat_2_should_be_cancelled
here: https://www.gopetition.com/petitions/cancel-borat-2.html and here: http://chng.it/W7XcWDyb We call on you, Amazon and Prime Video to stop the release of racist and traumatising “Borat 2”. You just can not support such projects in 2020, not when we saw firsthand what racism can do.
I hope you educate yourselves (read the petitions above), address your white privilege bias, revisit your values, prioritise ethics over the business case and do what you should have done when Mr Cohen approached you first - #cancelborat.
Kind regards,