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Why is South Park trending? What did I miss?
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I did but it is confusing as hell with stuff I think is from old episodes.
Someone complaining that South Park is responsible for major cultural damage. And a bunch of people, including the usual right wing types, responding about how bullshit that is.
I knew it wasn't good when I saw Posobiec and Paul Joseph "making lefties nervous" Watson were among the top.
South Park isn't getting "cancelled" you morons. It's only ending when Trey & Matt are tired of it.
South Park isn't getting "cancelled" you morons. It's only ending when Trey & Matt are tired of it.
I'm reminded of when Era was starting off and was still being raided by straight up unabashed Nazis, and you had a South Park thread say it's okay to use blackface when you're mocking Kanye West because he deserves it.
Also this:
www.nbcnews.com
South Park issues rare apology for 'ManBearPig' skewering of Al Gore
Show creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker made amends for a dis that is more than a decade old.
i notice when I do this now on Twitter all the tweets are about how the thing is trending and no one knows why
Also this:
South Park issues rare apology for 'ManBearPig' skewering of Al Gore
Show creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker made amends for a dis that is more than a decade old.
Date: November 2018.
Not sure why people are talking about that now. I mean, last season they had a two-parter that was basically one big apology to Al Gore.
Isn't that every episode? South park is a centrist's dream that loudly screeches about how caring about things is bad and makes fun of anything not part of the status quo.
That's all "Ohio 2" was last night when it was trending for whatever reason.
Centrist?
South Park is one of the most left leaning TV show in the 21st century and this coming from someone who has voted multiple times for the most left wing party in a social democracy.
It's hard to sometimes tell why something is trending 'cus when you click the trending tab, it's sometimes hundreds of tweets where other people confused as well. The only relevant thing seems that Dana Schwartz tweet but that's bringing up an old article and her Tweet thread doesn't seemed to have been triggered by anything specific.
With that said, if this is the reason it's trending: she ain't wrong.
With that said, if this is the reason it's trending: she ain't wrong.
A friend of mine was just complaining to me that her husband only gets his political news from South Park. That seems to be far too common.
That is so weird, 20 years ago the left defended it when the right was offended by the crudeness and making fun of religion.
South Park did a lot of the heavy lifting of turning my otherwise intelligent friends into "both sides suck so why care" alt-light nihilists. I never got the impression that was South Park's intent necessarily, just a side effect nonetheless.
Well. The big purpose of humor is to normalize things. To generate release via comfort or apathy; to let your guard down when it's done with the subject.
Whether that's things we all have in common which we don't know we have in common and worry about, or things that society has deemed unacceptable for some reason.
I wonder what made a generation of young people cynical and angry, distrustful of institutions and traditional politics.
Was it the collapse in living standards and rising levels of debt
Was it the illegal wars based on lies that killed millions of people and continue to rend the world's wounds open for decades
Was it the accelerating climate crisis destroying the planet, burning, drowning, choking and poisoning us all that leaders deny is happening, and when they don't decline to do anything about since it would be too expensive
Was it the return of fascism, white nationalism, ethnic cleansing, concentration camps and xenophobia
Was it the biggest financial collapse since the Great Depression, where insane hyper accelerated greed destroyed the homes and livelihoods of the middle class
No, in fact, it was a cartoon
Was it the collapse in living standards and rising levels of debt
Was it the illegal wars based on lies that killed millions of people and continue to rend the world's wounds open for decades
Was it the accelerating climate crisis destroying the planet, burning, drowning, choking and poisoning us all that leaders deny is happening, and when they don't decline to do anything about since it would be too expensive
Was it the return of fascism, white nationalism, ethnic cleansing, concentration camps and xenophobia
Was it the biggest financial collapse since the Great Depression, where insane hyper accelerated greed destroyed the homes and livelihoods of the middle class
No, in fact, it was a cartoon
It's interesting watching people trip over themselves by providing whataboutism of other factors that influenced social and political apathy with young people. It's not hard to acknowledge that South Park played a role in a lot of people's take on issues.
Even the viral tweet continues to say that she doesn't blame the show itself. But it contributed to a culture where insecure and fragile youth gravitated to a show for their stances, because it was comfortable and edgy.
Even the viral tweet continues to say that she doesn't blame the show itself. But it contributed to a culture where insecure and fragile youth gravitated to a show for their stances, because it was comfortable and edgy.
Nothing proves her point better than the fact that the bulk of this tweet's detractors are alt-right stooges.
I'll always have a soft spot for Cartman tricking that one kid into eating his parents, but I grew out of this apathetic-libertarian soapbox ages ago.
While South Park has been influencial in the last decades the good it has done compared to the harm far outweighs the criticisms. I know its not a popular opinion but they nailed the execution of representing both sides in a negative and positive life, while also being so absurdist yet so grounded in reality I'm actually kinda shocked no one has really taken a step back and thought to them selves that yeah, things really do need to change wholesale.
The popular Reddit post about South Park, it was brought up within the trending hashtag.
South Park's climate denialism has been utterly uninfluential on young people though.
The climate strikes last September were the biggest in world history.
There was a news story about some high schoolers that were suing to prevent a trans girl from participate in girl's sports recently. It was posted to reddit, and naturally, people brought up the trans athlete episode of South Park, as if they some sort of prophet that was 100% correct on every issue.
Millennials grew up with South Park. From my understanding, Millennials did not lead the climate strikes. Millennials make up "young people"
I think the telltale sign of how things don't feel like they're changing is that they did a second episode tackling the Catholic Church abusing kids, 16 years after the original.
Millennials participated in the climate strikes, and overwhelmingly believe in climate change science as a cohort. The Green New Deal was proposed by a millennial!
"Impossible to overstate the cultural damage done" is a hell of an opening statement to a criticism lol
Yes they participated. And? It is undeniable that large groups of millennials were influenced by South Park. No one is saying all millennials. And yes, I would hope if there is a non-apathetic millennial in office who wasn't influence negatively by South Park, they would push for climate action.
Then why do they have the polar opposite view on climate change to the one pushed in Manbearpig?
If it's "impossible to overstate" the influence, how come the majority of them are on the other side of the issue?
If had a nickel for how many times I've heard people cite that stupid giant douche vs. turd sandwich episode...
I wouldn't necessarily call South Park left-leaning, but more Right Critical. They constantly mock and parody right-leaning thoughts and tendencies, but also the entire show is in that 'point of view'? The biggest example that comes to mind is one of the more recent season finales where everyone having a gun actually does work since it's a stalemate of everyone not shooting each other because they're all armed. It appeals to the left because it's a criticism of the right, but I wouldn't necessarily call it left-leaning.