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South Park Shows How to Defeat the Social-Justice Warriors
National Review ^ | 11/2/2015 | Steven Miller

Posted on 11/02/2015 10:54:45 AM PST by Servant of the Cross

A soul-crushing society, led by a click-happy media and finger-wagging president, that has demanded our country and culture change everything from its football-team names to its campus speech policies, has gone largely unchecked for the past seven or so years. Today, the shirt a scientist wears is more important than his first-in-human-history accomplishments, and the jokes we tell on Twitter lead to angry mobs waiting for us at the airport. Random YouTube comments are held up as paramount examples of our society as savagely sexist, racist, or whatever other kind of "ist" the shame media can think of.

The Gawkerization of media demands we care if a celebrity appropriates corn rows in an Instagram picture, and drives clicks through the comments that savage social-media timelines. Sensationalized celebrity media has effectively weaponized itself with the encouragement of a president who believes we should apologize for everything from our professional-sports team names to our ancient crusades. If it all feels overwhelming and exhausting, it's because there has been very little pushback against any of it.

Until now.

The cries for liberation from this browbeating have finally been answered, by what might appear, on the surface, to be unlikely heroes: the boys from the quaint Colorado town of South Park. In their 19th season, show creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone have taken aim squarely at the thought-crime police. But they aren’t relaying a message about how suffocating a society built on the foundations of political correctness can be by preaching about it; they are putting the citizens of South Park through it, and in doing so, they're showing us all just how ludicrous we’ve become.

As the good people of South Park embrace each new step on the way to PC, the consequences they face become that much worse.

(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Political Humor/Cartoons; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: antipc; ridicule; southpark
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1 posted on 11/02/2015 10:54:45 AM PST by Servant of the Cross
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To: Servant of the Cross
Total outrage from the Left if you buy a chicken sandwich, but nothing when Planned Parenthood is exposed for selling baby parts. No outrage when the Climate Change Hoax is exposed over and over and over over and over and over over and over and over over and over and over, ad nauseum.

“Liberalism is a mental disease”
~ M. Savage

2 posted on 11/02/2015 10:58:34 AM PST by PATRIOT1876 (The only crimes that are 100% preventable are those committed by illegal aliens)
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To: PATRIOT1876

^
Ad nauseam


3 posted on 11/02/2015 10:58:47 AM PST by PATRIOT1876 (The only crimes that are 100% preventable are those committed by illegal aliens)
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To: PATRIOT1876

“Liberalism is treason.”


4 posted on 11/02/2015 11:02:43 AM PST by Carl Vehse
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To: Servant of the Cross
For them, this isn't about liberal vs. conservative politics per se, and it would be a foolish thing for the political Right to attempt to lay claim to Parker and Stone (although, personally, I would hand the keys to the RNC over to them after last week's CNBC debate debacle). We should, however, embrace what they are doing and sit back and admire it.

Vote for Cartman ... Head of the RNC!


5 posted on 11/02/2015 11:07:11 AM PST by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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To: Servant of the Cross

Point taken, National Review. But you could also do you part by not bashing true constitutional conservatives and stop pedaling RINO establishment types.


6 posted on 11/02/2015 11:08:36 AM PST by surroundedbyblue (DEFUND BIG MURDER NOW!)
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To: Servant of the Cross

What is the name of the episode in question? The extremely poorly written NRO essay has it very well hidden... or not at all.

Thanks.


7 posted on 11/02/2015 11:09:08 AM PST by samtheman (I will build a great, great wall on our southern border... - DT)
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To: surroundedbyblue

I read and note some authors who happen to appear on NR ... Andrew C. McCarthy, Stephen L. Miller, Ian Tuttle are a few of the good ones.


8 posted on 11/02/2015 11:11:50 AM PST by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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To: Servant of the Cross

Will it include what SP did to yelpers?


9 posted on 11/02/2015 11:12:43 AM PST by KosmicKitty (Liberals claim to want to hear other views, but then are shocked to discover there are other views)
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To: Servant of the Cross

Trey and Matt - irreverent and cool.

Unless of course, you’re Muslim, in which case they crumble like Gramma’s apple pie...


10 posted on 11/02/2015 11:14:09 AM PST by Old Sarge
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To: samtheman

It’s the entire 19th season (which is this year). The article mentions something from each episode.


11 posted on 11/02/2015 11:18:05 AM PST by Bryanw92 (Sic semper tyrannis)
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To: samtheman
As the article stated, this topic could not be dealt with in one single fearless 22-minute episode.

South Park Season 19: "Stunning and Brave"

"Stunning and Brave" is only about Jenner in that she serves as the catalyst for a schism in South Park. The boys' school has some new leadership in the form of PC Principal, who is sick and tired of the town's backward ways. Kids in school still use the R-word, and used to force their now-deceased black chef to sing soulful songs. The only non-white kid of note in the place is Token, and to PC Principal, the name says it all.

12 posted on 11/02/2015 11:19:27 AM PST by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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To: Old Sarge

>>Unless of course, you’re Muslim, in which case they crumble like Gramma’s apple pie...

Not really. Their commentary on the “special status” of islam was an excellent indictment of the cowardice of the media and the anti-religious left.


13 posted on 11/02/2015 11:20:33 AM PST by Bryanw92 (Sic semper tyrannis)
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To: Old Sarge
Gramma's apple pie crumbles?! NO!


14 posted on 11/02/2015 11:22:55 AM PST by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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To: samtheman

Sounds like he’s lumping a few recent episodes together. I saw the Whole Foods one where they gentrify the slummy part of town that Kenny lives in. They build a whole upscale business/residential/art district around his little cracker box house.


15 posted on 11/02/2015 11:30:22 AM PST by Hugin ("First thing--get yourself a firearm!" Sheriff Ed Galt, Last Man Standing.)
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To: Old Sarge
For the record, I do believe that any crumbling is done by Comedy Central ... and not the irreverent and cool Trey & Matt.
16 posted on 11/02/2015 11:30:32 AM PST by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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To: Bryanw92

I’m going to watch that episode (I think it was a two-parter?) again...


17 posted on 11/02/2015 11:36:16 AM PST by Old Sarge
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To: Hugin

Yes, if you read the article, he is clearly talking about the theme of the entire season.


18 posted on 11/02/2015 11:37:56 AM PST by SoothingDave
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To: Servant of the Cross

South park has been a favorite of mine for years. And its amazing how current they are.

The Elian Gonzales situation with Janet Reno episode aired the day aftger it happened. ITs uncanny how quickly they were able to get that episode on TV.

Because people have short memories.


19 posted on 11/02/2015 11:38:20 AM PST by Uversabound (Our Military past and present: Our Highest example of Brotherhood of Man & Doing God's Will)
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To: PATRIOT1876
Total outrage from the Left if you buy a chicken sandwich, but nothing when Planned Parenthood is exposed for selling baby parts. No outrage when the Climate Change Hoax is exposed over and over and over over and over and over over and over and over over and over and over, ad nauseum.

David Horowitz:

The title of [Hillary] Clinton's thesis was "There Is Only the Fight: An Analysis of the Alinsky Model." In this title she had identified the single most important Alinsky contribution to the radical cause -- his embrace of political nihilism. An SDS radical once wrote, "The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution." In other words, the cause of a political action -- whether civil rights or women's rights -- is never the real cause; women, blacks and other "victims" are only instruments in the larger cause, which is power. Battles over rights and other issues, according to Alinsky, should never be seen as more than occasions to advance the real agenda, which is the accumulation of power and resources in radical hands. Power is the all-consuming goal of Alinsky's politics

20 posted on 11/02/2015 11:38:31 AM PST by PapaBear3625 (Big government is attractive to those who think that THEY will be in control of it.)
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