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Comedy has always been a place you'd look if you want to see someone speak truth to power, for millennia too, and South Park has always done that. No, not alwa
by dfxm12 7y ago
Comedy has always been a place you'd look if you want to see someone speak truth to power, for millennia too, and South Park has always done that.
No, not always. They sometimes do that. Calling vegetarians pussies [0] is not speaking truth to power. It's punching down. South Park's approach is more the "try to piss off everyone" approach, which while funny, is a bad way to find your moral compass.
0 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTog_NtCEio https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTog_NtCEio
- miles 7y agoNo need to take anything South Park does personally; they do a great job of making fun of just about everyone ("Team America" perhaps being a prime example). The "vegetarians are weak" meme will slowly die as more amateur and professional athletes (including MMA champions, Olympians, and even the guy who coined "You hit like a vegetarian") jump on the plant-based wagon: https://gamechangersmovie.com/#trailer https://gamechangersmovie.com/#trailer
- dfxm12 7y agoI don't know why you think I'm taking anything personally. I'm certainly not a vegetarian. That was the first example of South Park punching down I thought of. Like I said, South Park does make fun of everyone. That's explicitly not always speaking truth to power, like the parent poster is claiming. And I agree with the grandparent post that we shouldn't look to South Park as a moral compass.
- sodosopa 7y agoTheir main philosophy is “If you can’t laugh at yourself, who can you laugh at?”
- lawnchair_larry 7y ago“Punching down” itself is a concept they would, and should, make fun of. That term is just a way of framing speech that you disagree with in order to censor it for being anti-virtuous.
- dfxm12 7y ago“Punching down” itself is a concept they would, and should, make fun of. Well, it's been well established that they would make fun of anything. I'm not arguing that. You tell the writers what they should be doing though. That term is just a way of framing speech that you disagree with in order to censor it for being anti-virtuous. No it's not. You're making a lot of false assumptions about what I said based on zero evidence. If you don't understand what I'm saying, that's one thing, but don't put words in my mouth.
- Can_Not 7y agoCalling the term "punching down" just a way to frame speech that one disagrees with in order to censor it just sounds like a way for you to censor people who criticize you for punching down.