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Trey Parker and Matt Stone Are Changing the Name of South Park to South America

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Re: Trey Parker and Matt Stone Are Changing the Name of South Park to South America

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Post by badc0ffee »

kg wrote: post #16
gjsman-1000 wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, I think both sides are the same to an uncomfortable degree. To quote Bill Maher: “Trump has renamed Lake Ontario to the Lake of America. Of course, the left knows you can’t just rename things for political gain, just ask any Latinx birthing person.”

His examples don't hold up. Latinx is attempting to provide an umbrella term for latino and latina, it's not renaming one of the two. "Birthing person" is attempting to provide an umbrella term for people who can give birth that may or may not necessarily be female. (You can express your own feelings about the reality that this exists, but it does exist regardless of how you feel about it). On the other hand Lake Ont…

You definitely need to be female to give birth, regardless of whatever gender identity label you give yourself (e.g. "man" or "non binary").

Re: Trey Parker and Matt Stone Are Changing the Name of South Park to South America

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Post by mdp2021 »

XorNot wrote: post #38
grebc wrote: post #33

Pretty clear there’s a lot of people here without a sense humour.

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> South America is an actual real geographical designator in common usage

Hence naming something that is absurd. That is the joke. The renaming is preposterous - that is the message.

Edit: and maaany other "short-circuits" around that idea are suggested.

Re: Trey Parker and Matt Stone Are Changing the Name of South Park to South America

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Post by skygazer »

martythemaniak wrote: post #3

I watched South Park for almost 20 years, but stopped about a decade ago. Have the creators ever reconned with their role in normalizing and popularizing.. the current situation? What I mean is, SP is one of most prominent cultural examples of " both sides are equally bad, everyone and everything sucks", they've had great success with this schtick, ManBearPig, Turd Sandwich, etc. They did a lot of prep work for the c…

Well, in fairness, both sides were bad, and still are -- although, now, one side is spectacularly worse. Dems can't ever agree on a candidate or position or message, and intentionally run candidates the otherside would abhore, and Republicans would happily vote in unison for an old shoe as long as it was sufficiently dog-whistley.

Re: Trey Parker and Matt Stone Are Changing the Name of South Park to South America

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Post by ceejayoz »

badc0ffee wrote: post #61
kg wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

His examples don't hold up. Latinx is attempting to provide an umbrella term for latino and latina, it's not renaming one of the two. "Birthing person" is attempting to provide an umbrella term for people who can give birth that may or may not necessarily be female. (You can express your own feelings about the reality that this exists, but it does exist regardless of how you feel about it). On the other hand Lake Ont…

You definitely need to be female to give birth, regardless of whatever gender identity label you give yourself (e.g. "man" or "non binary").

Oh yeah?

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19155947/

Re: Trey Parker and Matt Stone Are Changing the Name of South Park to South America

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Post by henryfjordan »

edoceo wrote: post #41
liveoneggs wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

south park is a product of the 1990's! its origins lean heavily on the still-true left/democratic party's pro-censorship leanings just because the recent right/republicans were able to more effectively lean into the meme-heavy southpark-type (crude, male-targeted) humor as marketing doesn't really track with your last assertion (for me)

The US-Left is pro-censorship? My recent memory of headlines was the US-Right attempting to ban books. What am I missing?

The perception is that the left is in favor of censoring slurs and hate symbols. As a reaction, Trump/MAGA has brought back the R-word for instance.

Saying the Left are "pro-censorship" is not factually incorrect but definitely has a different connotation.

Re: Trey Parker and Matt Stone Are Changing the Name of South Park to South America

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Post by Whoppertime »

edoceo wrote: post #41
liveoneggs wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

south park is a product of the 1990's! its origins lean heavily on the still-true left/democratic party's pro-censorship leanings just because the recent right/republicans were able to more effectively lean into the meme-heavy southpark-type (crude, male-targeted) humor as marketing doesn't really track with your last assertion (for me)

The US-Left is pro-censorship? My recent memory of headlines was the US-Right attempting to ban books. What am I missing?

How did the institutions dominated by the left react to dissent when it came to COVID 19 policy? Like the authors of the Great Barrington Declaration. Were they open with speculation about the virus, vaccine policy or the lockdowns? Or did they censor Disinformation and Misinformation on Campus, on social media,and at the work place?

Re: Trey Parker and Matt Stone Are Changing the Name of South Park to South America

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Post by plussed_reader »

martythemaniak wrote: post #3

I watched South Park for almost 20 years, but stopped about a decade ago. Have the creators ever reconned with their role in normalizing and popularizing.. the current situation? What I mean is, SP is one of most prominent cultural examples of " both sides are equally bad, everyone and everything sucks", they've had great success with this schtick, ManBearPig, Turd Sandwich, etc. They did a lot of prep work for the c…

No; the cruel libertarian streak that has been at the basis of the show since inception is still ever present.

They are still very good about not punching down and I think that is one of the nicer things to say about the show but their shtick got old during the 45th admin and I haven't tuned back since.

Re: Trey Parker and Matt Stone Are Changing the Name of South Park to South America

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Post by justin66 »

ChrisMarshallNY wrote: post #39
grebc wrote: post #33

Pretty clear there’s a lot of people here without a sense humour.

I have been informed that a common HN practice, is to have your sense of humor extracted, when getting your first colonoscopy.

They tell you it's a diagnostic procedure but if they see a sense of humor in there they just zap it.
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