The TV series South Park has always been famous for being absolutely irreverent and unhinged, with scathing parodies and satire of all kinds of ideas, ideologies, movements, cultures and people. Nothing seems to be off-limits, no matter how "politically incorrect" it may be. Christianity, Islam, Mormonism, Scientology, Jews, social justice ideology, transgenderism, Donald Trump... You name it, South Park has probably satirized it.
The authors have never shied away from criticizing ideologies and movements in the form of parody and satire, even when it might even be dangerous for them to do so, such as in the case of Islam (and, in the modern world, social justice activism).
With one exception.
I have seen the entirety of South Park, from beginning to end, every single episode, and it appears to me that even though they aren't afraid of satirizing almost anything, there's one movement that they won't touch with a ten foot pole. Namely, the "Black Lives Matter" movement. Not a single episode deals with them in any way, shape or form.
In fact, there are a few episodes that, perhaps, very subtly actually placate to them, rather than criticize and parody them.
Of course I cannot possibly know what goes inside the heads of the authors, but I somehow have got the hunch that, perhaps, they are actually afraid of being designated as "racists". Islamophobes, transphobes, sexists... anything goes... except, it seems to me, racists. I somehow get the feeling that they draw the line there. Anything else is fine, but that's where they stop. That's their limit. That's where they won't go.
It doesn't matter that over the past 5 or so years the BLM movement has engaged in a large amount of abuse, fascist behavior, and even outright crimes, the South Park authors will not touch that subject. Pretty much anything else is fair game, except for this. It seems to me that if there's one thing that they are afraid of, it's this.
The authors have never shied away from criticizing ideologies and movements in the form of parody and satire, even when it might even be dangerous for them to do so, such as in the case of Islam (and, in the modern world, social justice activism).
With one exception.
I have seen the entirety of South Park, from beginning to end, every single episode, and it appears to me that even though they aren't afraid of satirizing almost anything, there's one movement that they won't touch with a ten foot pole. Namely, the "Black Lives Matter" movement. Not a single episode deals with them in any way, shape or form.
In fact, there are a few episodes that, perhaps, very subtly actually placate to them, rather than criticize and parody them.
Of course I cannot possibly know what goes inside the heads of the authors, but I somehow have got the hunch that, perhaps, they are actually afraid of being designated as "racists". Islamophobes, transphobes, sexists... anything goes... except, it seems to me, racists. I somehow get the feeling that they draw the line there. Anything else is fine, but that's where they stop. That's their limit. That's where they won't go.
It doesn't matter that over the past 5 or so years the BLM movement has engaged in a large amount of abuse, fascist behavior, and even outright crimes, the South Park authors will not touch that subject. Pretty much anything else is fair game, except for this. It seems to me that if there's one thing that they are afraid of, it's this.
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