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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 plorkyeran »

nostrademons wrote: post #71
kg wrote: post #16

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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…

Latinx is terrible, though, because it is something no native Spanish speaker would ever say. It's an example of the exact same sort of cultural imperialism that most of the people who like to say latinx rail against. The term that Hispanic queer and non-binary communities use is latine , which is pronounceable, follows normal Spanish grammatical rules, actually arose from the communities being discussed, and plurali…

It's almost like it's not a Spanish word. It was coined by native English speakers to describe themselves. It also happens to be a terrible English word, but the fact that it doesn't work in a different language's grammar isn't why it's a bad English word.

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

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Post by optionalsquid »

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

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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").

That was conclusively disproven by Schwarzenegger et al., 1994.

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Post by liveoneggs »

ipaddr wrote: post #84
edoceo wrote: post #41

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

The Christian right was trying to ban books in the 70s/80s. Fought heavy metal music in the 80s. Then you have 911 censorship. But after 2008 the left brought woke to power which saw banning people from twitter, social media, right speech. Then we reached covid which saw banning of facts. Deplatforming / banning / doxing became the norm until the return of Trump who then moved the needle and started pro Jewish censor…

Harry Potter is the funniest example because it started out being a target of the evangelical "right" and has become a target of the culture-war "left"!

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

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Post by seba_dos1 »

sapphicsnail wrote: post #98
henryfjordan wrote: post #82

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> Censorship is the government controlling what information the public can access Wikipedia and the ACLU both use a more expansive definition, where your definition is only 1 type of censorship. The "Left" uses empathy to convince people to self-censor and less often uses "Cancel Culture" to pressure companies into private censorship. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship https://www.aclu.org/documents/what-censor…

What's wrong with empathy?

Broken people consider it a weakness.

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Post by matwood »

jackp96 wrote: post #19
gjsman-1000 wrote: post #9

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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.”

Eh, it's a decent joke, but it seems like the power dynamics here are a bit out of balance? Maybe I just live in a red area, but I see a lot of people judge liberals based on wild Twitter takes and random think pieces — which aren't actually policies/rule of law. If Joe Biden signed an EO denouncing the use of the phrase "pregnant woman" in government documents as a queerphobic slur or mandating Gov employees add the…

You reminded me that I had a person at work get mad that I used the phrase “9 women can’t have a baby in 1 month”. They couldn’t explain why other than I’m a man and can’t talk about women. So it’s not wild Twitter takes.

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

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Post by Lammy »

lobf wrote: post #97
Lammy wrote: post #93

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> Giant Douche vs Turd Sandwich, the epitome of "both sides are the same." idk I feel like an election boiling down to “Which Bonesman would you like?” is a valid thing to question: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skull_and_Bones#Notable_member... > In the 2004 presidential election, both the Democratic and Republican nominees were members of Skull and Bones. When asked what it meant that both he and George W. Bush wer…

Is their membership in this silly club the defining characteristic of either man? What does this have to do with their presidential platforms?

How could I know? He literally said it's a secret.

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Post by Gud »

CobrastanJorji wrote: post #43
EA-3167 wrote: post #12

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https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/south-park-issues-rare-... How is that not changing?

See the word "rare" in the headline? They didn't go after Gore because he was wrong. They went after him because he committed the cardinal sin of really, earnestly taking a stand on a big issue. That is NEVER okay in South Park. There is never a correct side. Both sides must always be bad, on every issue. The "correct" view in South Park is always to not really take a stance on anything, and any character who is stro…

Gore is a massive hypocrite and deserves the ridicule he gets.

No champion of the environment gallivants in a jet and lives in a mansion.

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Post by cr1895 »

atmavatar wrote: post #90
liveoneggs wrote: post #13

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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)

I feel it worth pointing out an important distinction between censorship coming from "the left" vs. that coming from "the right". On the left, when someone uses a racial or sexist epithet, for example, the reaction is to exert social pressure against that individual. Social media escalates that to a giant dogpile, which, in some cases, results in some extreme cases where the individual loses their job in addition to…

> On the left, when someone uses a racial or sexist epithet, for example, the reaction is to exert social pressure against that individual. Social media escalates that to a giant dogpile

Not sure it’s correct to characterize that as a reaction of only the “left” - case in point, the reactions to Charlie Kirk’s death.

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Post by GJim »

XorNot wrote: post #100
Johnny555 wrote: post #83

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>It's not clever satire because unlike say, the Gulf of Mexico, South America is an actual real geographical designator in common usage. It's almost as dumb as renaming lake Ontario to Lake America to "punish" Canada (presumably because it shares its name with the province of Ontario), when that lake has had its name since the 1600's (before the USA or Canada even existed) and is based on a Native American Iroquoian…

My point is that the satire doesn't work because it doesn't understand the issue at hand. A fictional American town being renamed to to South America doesn't actually capture the absurdities or issues of the current American administrations actions and directly undermines the message because the name they picked is another actual place name, rather then a made up vapid one (which is the case with "Gulf of America" an…

> My point is that the satire doesn't work

"If you have to explain satire to someone, you might as well give up"

  -Barry Humphries
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