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‘South Park’ Brilliantly Mocks PC Culture
newsbusters.org ^ | 11/18/2015 | Alexa Mouteveli

Posted on 11/19/2015 6:57:21 AM PST by rktman

TRIGGER WARNING: This article is about South Park and thus contains some explicit language and themes!

On the South Park episode "Sponsored Content," PC culture is upended when a student with a disability uses un-PC language. PC Principal is on the warpath to find out who printed a headline with the non-PC word "retarded." The culprit? Jimmy, the principled Editor-in-Chief of Super School News, who has cerebral palsy.

This scene where PC Principal calls Jimmy into his office to mansplain "about the rights of people with disabilities" while Jimmy defends freedom of speech ("I don't want people to be afraid of words if it stops them from having a dialogue") is pretty close to perfect:

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Political Humor/Cartoons
KEYWORDS: southpark; unpc
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To: KC_Lion

21 posted on 11/19/2015 7:53:10 AM PST by TADSLOS (A Ted Cruz Happy Warrior! GO TED!)
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To: cripplecreek

I remember that episode, “Death Camp of Tolerance”. It is one of the best. I almost stopped breathing from laughing. One of the plot lines involved the classroom’s gerbil and Mr. Garrison’s friend, Mr. Slave.

I never thought that I’d see THAT on a TV show.


22 posted on 11/19/2015 7:57:02 AM PST by DickBrannigan (When did logic become reversed, and right became wrong, and wrong became right?)
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To: rktman

I learned that PC stands for something other than Political Correctness.


23 posted on 11/19/2015 9:05:07 AM PST by Publius ("Who is John Galt?" by Billthedrill and Publius now available at Amazon.)
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To: rktman

Excellent!!!


24 posted on 11/27/2015 11:01:32 AM PST by Rockitz (This is NOT rocket science - Follow the money and you'll find the truth.)
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