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How ‘South Park’ Perfectly Captures Our Era of Outrage
If “South Park” were a person, it would be old enough to vote, though it probably wouldn’t. That scabrous cartoon has been a one-stop shop for anti-partisan satire and blasphemy on Comedy Central since 1997. Few comedies can stay first-rate for that long. (Sorry, Homer.) Early in the current season, the show’s 19th, the creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone seem to wonder how well the show’s offend-at-all-costs ethos has aged. “It’s like I’m a relic,” a recurring character says.
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I think the problem with South Park is that some don't take the show in as entertainment, but rather a basis for their own morals.
I see this a lot on Reddit. There's people that watch South Park, because they enjoy it as entertainment, but there's also a good number of people that take it to heart. Rather than formulating their own opinion, they just copy and paste from that show, or the works of other comedians. I've seen people try to defend the use of the word 'faggot' solely by linking a video of that Louis C.K. bit, without any extrapolation or qualification. For every person that's used them to see an issue from a different perspective, there's a good number of people that just go, "Yeah, that totally makes sense," and moves on - not bothering to really think about what was said.
It's good to satiric or comedic works to see another side of the story, but it's not a positive action to justify them without any other sort of criticism.