That's it, let's talk about how I'm mad
Hey remember when they shat on Al Gore for warning people about global climate change?. Then 10 years later when California was literally in flames while rich people played golf, they were like:
"oops got that one wrong".
Or remember when they "made fun" of people warning about wallmart becoming too big, with "it's just the natural way of things". Then around 10 years later they suddenly discover that amazon has become too big and have essentially reimplemented slavery with AI.
"oops again"
Yeah really awesome show, glad it hasn't done permanent fucking damage to public discourse for years on end.
What they did to trans people with Mrs. Garrison's Fancy New Vagina is gulag-worthy unforgivable even if they made up for it uh 15 years later with a milquetoast rebuttal and then immediately undoing it by talking about trans women in sports.
A couple of white 50+ year old multi-millionaires spouting reactionary bullshit and pretending its self evident, funny and edgy.
God I hate that I watched the show for so many years.
When moving from one state to another, I binged season 10 and I hate that I did, because it infected my politics for years.
Still catch myself in one of their bullshit setups at least once or twice a year. Reading and exposure to counter arguments helps to remove the brain rot.
i find bunch of libertarians complaining about private companies censoring their shit,,, ironic.
But you see for comedy purposes they HAVE to depict the prophet Mohammed as if that's the pinnacle of comedy
the problem is even if they HAVE to depict it and see it essential to their freedom of speech, they can. they just have to find somewhere else to stream it, and get rid of their slave masters in comedy central, it is their beloved capital that restricts them, private censorship. it is just so stupid of them to try to make a such point.its like people complaining about disney's shady business practices to pander to the chinese audiances, of course both practices are still unwelcome in leftist spaces, at the end of the day companies do not censor stuff because we are outraged by it, they censor it to make money.
They were beside themselves that Comedy Central was so COWARDLY not to depict Mohammed in such an innocuous way and oh blah what the fuck ever, these Charlie Hebdo types acting like they're Anne fucking Frank because they doodle a picture of a random dude in a turban and claim it's the prophet
south park warped my generation's brain into thinking libertarianism is ok. Criticize the left, now criticize the right. But only the ahistorical American notion of "left" and "right". Underlying systems get no criticism.
It's dumb in that two 20 year old morons got to have so much influence. But 4chan incels gave us Q anon. Our society has brain damage.
South Park basically created this entire community and all of its offshoots. It's just black pill consumerism. It used ironic culture war imagery to unironically wage a culture war. Sure it makes consumerism seem absurd but it also makes sure to NEVER present another option.
It's part of this group of weird intellectual liberals and libertarians like Penn and Teller and Steve Pinker and Sam Harris that were branded as contrarians while always siding with the military industrial complex. All this lame shit was funded by The Kochs, John Malone, Stan Kroenke aaaaaand Epstein. Pinker fucks kids.
Fuck, i always forget Gladwell on my list of kid fuckers/galaxy-brained 2000's morons. I think he's almost too obviously a moron for me to even remember he's a moron. Gladwell is a burrito so stupid that gladwell himself could not eat it.
I will never forget Gladwell who explained racism didn't exist because he got profiled by the police simply based on his haircut
Can you be more specific? Is this specifically something from South Park?
It didn't originate from them but it was popularized by them and the phrasing is certainly South Parkian. Ironically they've contradicted themselves on this argument by arguing that the n-word is never okay to say (while having a white character and a voice actor say it) and then arguing that using the gay slur f-word is totally okay because it doesn't mean anti-gay stuff anymore.
this is why comedians need to be shot and we should have satirists rule society's comedic sector
I think I first saw it in iDubbz's tana mogeau video; made in response of her criticising him for saying the n word. He makes a couple of fair points and pulls up evidence of her using the word but he also uses this exact talking point to justify his use of the word. It's funny because in the exact same video, he also makes the argument that context is imperative; which contradicts the above argument. I think the whole thing was more so an exercise in creating "youtube drama" as opposed to making any sort of cogent point about the nature of comedy and free speech.
I have said that the reason people say you can't make rape jokes isn't that you can't make rape jokes, but that the vast, vast majority of those making rape jokes are so lazy and uninspired and frankly upsetting that you might as well ban people from making them.
One of the funniest jokes about both rape and toxic masculinity was from Dave Chappelle where he said that if he ever did get raped, he'd just lie and say he was cheating on his girlfriend, because the fallout of that is easier to deal with than the humiliation of rape and that one hit me so hard because it's truer than it is funny.
Back in college I overheard some people using the f-slur in the computer lab and when I asked them to stop they instantly went to "either it's all ok or none of it is!". I have no idea what point they thought they were trying to make, I think it just became a reflexive answer to that sort of request to them
God where it cuts to graphic images of black and white video of actual surgery. I just fucking can't.
An interesting book on this is "The Case Against Free Speech" by P. E. Moskowitz.
God I used to use that excuse when I made edgy 9/11 jokes in the early 2000s