I'm hesitant to jump in here but this thread has taken a harsh turn.
A huge element of the movie, and the controversy around it, is how much of it is meant as either parody or absurdity. The danger is in saying things that one doesn't mean - about Gypsies, about throwing Jews down a well (from the movie), about women, and about lots of other things.
The debate about whether one can make, for example, Kazakhstan jokes without any disrespect towards Kazakhstanis is a debate for somewhere else. Hence the request for thread deletion, I suppose.
John, I'd suggest that it's not about "hate". I think our "Borat" doesn't hate Gypsies; he's probably never knowingly met someone of Gypsy background.