Trey Parker and Matt Stone are probably two of the most courageous and talented satirist the world truly needs right now.
Props to them for being one of the only people who views Woke as something else other than just the cringe way of saying “Political Correctness”
Truly admirable and sagacious comedy CHADS!!!
Dude they’re known libertarians. They moderated over time like all semi-rational people when exposed to Trump, but they had early episodes depicting the people tearing down the rainforest as heroes.
South Park is satire, and they very often use irony. I feel very rude for pointing that out, but you’ve missed the point entirely if you genuinely do think their intention was to… Depict deforestation as heroic…
It actually was their intention. They did a similar number for very many other issues. They were consistent in their libertarianism, and they were basically the animated version of Penn and Teller’s Bullshit for a pretty good stretch in that era. Many of their episodes tackled the same issues in much the same way.
Penn Gillette was arguably more of a public mascot and mouthpiece for libertarianism, but both shows were heavily steeped in it.
Watch it again with open eyes. There are lots of examples.
I don’t recall those episodes even though I definitely saw them, but that really doesn’t feel like that was the intent of the episode… that would be out of character
edit: to be clear I do mean that it would be out of character to show deforestation as heroic, and that yes it must have been satire
They have a super famous bit with the BP CEO acting like a giant dickhead apologizing for the massive oil spill when Obama was president. It’s some of the most on the nose satire of a corporate apology I’ve ever seen.
that’s the nipple rubbing, right? (among other occasions)
because yeah that shit is on brand. I just don’t see them portraying deforestation as heroic
No, the nipple-rubbing was for cable companies (and was more fantastic satire.) The BP CEO included the guy lying naked on a rug in front of a fire place.
Then watch the episode.
They aren’t fucking Colbert Report. I know. I watched all of it.
They looked for these angles. They did a similar thing with trying to make tobacco companies look heroic.
Look man, it’s not some kind of hidden thing that they were (or maybe are) right libertarians. It’s well documented for anyone who cares.
I think there was even “South Park Republicans” floating around in the vernacular for a time (the reference is probably still on Wikipedia).
Have you any media literacy? Or are you basing this off of random clips and hearsay from friends. Because South Park has been well known for taking massive dumps on literally every demographic, and consistently standing by said dumps when people get pissy over being rightfully satirized.
I watched the first episode when it aired dude.
Watch the episode about hybrid vehicles, starving Africans, goobacks, etc, etc, etc forever.
Back when South Park was extremely relevant they and Penn and Teller’s show Bullshit were basically the mechanisms for poisoning everyone with libertarian ideology.
(Though I feel obliged to say they are at least funny unlike today’s right wing comedians.)
They were all funny to me as a twenty something. I watched all of them. Their politics still consistently sucked balls.
Yeah so have I and so did I. I grew up with nothing but Comedy Central on TV at my dads.
If you think they were making fun of Goobacks, youre once again missing the whole episodes point of doing better for those around you and the world in general to prevent massive immigration.
They weren’t shitting on hybrids, they were shitting on the smug ass owners of them which very much was a thing, now they’ve just transitioned to being Tesla owners.
And I don’t remember starving Africans well enough rn to dispute you, but I genuinely think you’re viewing their show through a reactionary lense and immediately clutching your pearls.
For as crass and immature as the show is on a surface level, there’s tons of nuance as you get deeper into the meanings you’re meant to gleam from it.
The characters basically never learn or become better as people because they’re not supposed to.
I garuntee if you sat down and actually watched the show, youd realize very quickly these guys only hate pretentious hypocrites, racists, bigots and politicians. But most people miss that because they’ve decided you can’t poke fun at anyone without being part of that group, entirely missing Matt and Treys point for the last 30 years.
Again, watched it as it came out. Watched the arc with family guy where they made that point explicitly. It still is just them trying to pretend that they don’t have a political viewpoint and “poke fun at everyone” when it’s pretty clear that was never the case. In other forms of media it’s called the “view from nowhere”, and it does have a political bent despite them continually trying to say that it does not with the assistance of people such as yourself.
They called climate change “manbearpig” and have since apologized for it. Also, if South Park is deep or nuanced to you, I’m not sure what to tell you, because it isn’t. At all.