I’d recommend to watch later episodes. They’ve pretty much abandoned the 90s libertarian edge-lord moments and explicitly disclaimed and apologized for it. They’ve had quite a few “wow, we were the problem” fourth-wall-breaking moments in recent years.
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queue@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months agoSouth Park would probably be on the side of Google and other corporations, Matt and Trey are diehard libertarian capitalists.
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livus@kbin.social 5 months ago
I never really forgave them for the original ManBearPig climat change denialism.
Hazzia@discuss.tchncs.de 5 months ago
Even though the eventually admitted their mistake with the whole “ManBearPig is real” episode, the damage had been done years prior. I haven’t watched many recent South Park episodes, but I hope they learned their lesson to maybe not ignore actual scientists next time.
livus@kbin.social 5 months ago
If it had happened like in the 1980s or something it would have been forgiveable but it was like 2006 or something, at that point we all already knew climate change was real.
anachronist@midwest.social 5 months ago
2000s were peak libertarian for SP. They were against the war on terror so they didn’t code “Bush-right” but they were extremely libertarian. I remember the media trying to push this “millennials are conservative actually” line by inventing the phrase “South-park republican”
Still I remember them landing some good observations. For instance, in one episode the boys learn how veal is made and become animal rights activists. You can tell TP/MS are not animal rights activists, but after the boys steal the cows the media, police, government, etc all instantly start calling the boys “terrorists.” It really caught the whole post-9/11 zeitgeist of “anybody you don’t like is a terrorist.”