I don’t want to read any references to South Park in my comments. They repeatedly produced absolutely horrid transphobic cartoons that helped normalize the hatred and disgust of transgender people in this country.
Nothing they can say or do now will make an ounce of difference compared to the damage they’ve done. Fuck them a lot. I don’t even want to see people mentioning them to insult them. As bad and as damaging as the terf queen has been and continues to be, South Park‘s insult feels much more personally insulting to me.
Even before that I’d stopped paying attention to them for their cartoon that made the case that it didn’t matter if you didn’t vote in Kerry v Bush, right before the election. Idgaf how liberal they are on this or that position; both of these things directly contributed to the rise of global fascism.
Have they occasionally been funny? Unfortunately yes, but like with Dave Chappelle, I’m trying to forget anything they ever did to amuse me, because it makes the poison feel more like betrayal than just “random celeb boosts nazis.” In the “don’t vote” show they had a rap featuring the line “bounce your titties when you vote bitch” which is quite funny.
I’d love to bounce my titties when I vote in good cheer. But this is not possible. Don’t fuckin breathe a word about South Park around me, thx.
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Noted, and I concur. I’ve never found it very humorous. I don’t find it “edgy”. I don’t care that a lot of their humor is in what some people would call “bad taste”, there is a lot of very funny humor which is in bad taste. And while I do think there can be some humor in “punching-down” if it is done right (i.e. obviously not seriously), the tactic for this show seems to be to pick a target-of-the-week and throw whatever they can at it. They have never appeared to care at all who the target is, just as long as they can identify one. Whether the stuff they threw at a target was accurate or not, the important thing appeared to be hitting the target. Humor was a secondary consideration, shock was the primary one.
There is a great amount of pretentious privilege in the idea of, “Let’s insult people and see who gets upset! We’ll just say it’s humor.” I’m a privileged, pretentious, asshole, and I don’t find what they are doing funny. Maybe because I can see my 20-year-old self thinking it is.
thanks, comrade.