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⌈ Secret Post #3535 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

If South Park hasn't specifically made fun of you, you're not human.

[(Anonymous)]

Right???

Like, does it actually spend a lot of time making fun of libertarians, people who think the truth is in the middle, and people who object to political correctness. Maybe it does. I don't watch the show.

[(Anonymous)]

"and people who object to political correctness"

Kind of? Cartman is the most racist, bigoted member of the main cast, and he's treated as a joke and pretty much always shown to be in the wrong.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah but I always got the sense that was more on account of Cartman specifically being a tremendous dick / evil? In a sort of comedically absurd way that they don't usually try to frame as related to reality?

[(Anonymous)]

NAYRT

Comically absurd and unrealistic is South Park's modus operandi. I mean... that's how they make fun of everyone?

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah but I would argue there's a difference between the way they depict - for instance - Al Gore in the manbearpig episode, and Cartman generally. It's a different mode of over the top that's less rooted in actual social things.

[(Anonymous)]

True, but all the views he espouses are ones held by real people. Cartman's characterization is a classic example of taking ideas and beliefs and comically exaggerating them to show how nonsensical they are.

You know, actual satire, as opposed to the mindless offensive-for-the-sake-of-being-offensive bullshit that so many "adult" cartoons try to pass off as satire. *cough*FAMILY GUY*cough*

[(Anonymous)]

I think there are times when Cartman is being used to satirize stuff but I don't think his character is in general satirizing anything particular.

[(Anonymous)]

And the chicken molester was an Ayn Rand fan.

[(Anonymous)]

nayrt

That's not the best example if you're trying to disprove ayrt's point. The only people who take Ayn Rand fans seriously are Ayn Rand fans.

[(Anonymous)]

My point was that, yes, they'd made fun of libertarians? By implying they like to fuck poultry?

[(Anonymous)]

Ayn Rand fans are an extremely specific subset of libertarians in my experience, but fair point.

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[(Anonymous)]

The argument I've heard from a couple different sources is that South Park makes fun of people who care about things, no matter what it is they care about. According to this formulation, the way to not be made fun of is to not care about anything at all. I can't speak to how accurate this is, since I don't watch the show.

Re: OP

[(Anonymous)]

I'd say that's an accurate summary. It makes fun of people who take themselves or their opinions too seriously.

Re: OP

[(Anonymous)]

Which by them means actually caring about anything? Huh. Asswipes.

Re: OP

[(Anonymous)]

No. There's a big difference between people who care about things and zealots.

Zealots are what "South Park" makes fun of. The people who care so much about something that they get very irrational about it and cannot tolerate any other viewpoint in the world. People like the Westboro Baptists, for example. Oh they care about their cause, all right. But do you really believe that's healthy caring?

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[(Anonymous)]

AYRT. 'Course not. But the Anon above did not make the distinction you did, and that sort of flippant, "nothing REALLY matters except our oh-so-witty dialogue" trick writing annoys me.