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Say what you will, I usually find his movies extremely funny. These types of movies and characters have become so rare that it's almost refreshing.
That it pisses a lot of people off would not surprise me, but it's the best marketing you can get for free.
Borat pisses people off because it's very directly racist (unlike Ali G)
Plus he exploited real people living in poverty for the Kazakhstan scenes which is a very not cool thing to do
They got paid, they just wanted more money (like actor level pay) after finding out the success of the movie. No one got exploited.
Source: I'm from Romania, I know those kind of people.