I never thought of South Park as nihilistic. The show regularly examines meaningful social issues despite its comedic delivery. They just do not seem to be alig

I never thought of South Park as nihilistic. The show regularly examines meaningful social issues despite its comedic delivery. They just do not seem to be aligned with US party politics very well. But that does not seem to be the core message of the article, which is that someone tweeted something about a show and got an unexpected, disproportionate and apparently also very rude reaction. I think that's largely a problem of Twitter. It's structures (public by default, designed to cut context, encouraging brevity, enabeling users to bring their followers as some kind of drive-by audience etc.) appear to me to make piling and bullying a very rewarding experience.