Unpopular Dissent

I’ve been really lazy and complacent recently, so much so that I didn’t even write this next blog entry. It comes to you from a friend of mine.

Why Are South Park Fans So Goddamn Defensive? A Bewildered Response To The Backlash From The Mindless Middle

By Joseph Wallace

Maybe they’ve just done such a fine job of insulating themselves in a bubble that defies the traditional left-versus-right dichotomy of most debates and don’t expect anyone will be able to lay sights on the middle ground for targeting, but FSM almighty, they will go to any length with those goalposts to avoid admitting that they and their idols Parker and Stone are preachy little cunts with a penchant for smarmy self-congratulation. Is it because they’re all slacker krons who have comforted their tiny minds with the quaint notion that a comedy show cannot possibly have an agenda and/or message? Because that is always their first knee-jerk response when the unthinkable happens and someone goes after Parker and Stone, previously thought to be immune to criticism due to their facetious equal-opportunity offender shtick; “ungh man chill out duder buddy man duuuude its just a cartoon peace chillax 420″ ad nauseum.

I get it; it is in an animated format. How this makes it incapable of delivering smug centrist rhetoric that leans right is beyond me, and I can point to examples of why this isn’t so, which causes them to lurch to crutch #2: “man buddy duder dude bro they make fun of everyone but they dont mean it just bend over and give them a blank cheque bro dudey budder 420.” Of course, I am supposed to take them on their word that Parker & Stone wrote these conspicuously reproachful sermons to end episodes with having no message in mind, and it is some highly removed, abstract, sophisticated form of humor, replete with a figurative pulpit for Stan or Kyle or whomever in the form of a clearing in an angry mob and dramatic music.

Maybe I just don’t butt heads with enough Family Guy or Simpsons fanboys, or those of some other big comedy series, but it seems to me that wherever I go that involves South Park wankers, be it online or face-to-face, I continually find myself being handed this line about how Parker and Stone are these cunning satirical geniuses incapable of partiality or crude political rhetoric, and anything that appears as such is either unintentional because animated comedies shows can never make points, or back down the other end of the field to “ha ha you were duped by their sly comedic acumen”, to whatever – but no matter the approach, the goalposts always read “PARKER AND STONE DO NO WRONG, SHIT GOLD AND THEIR CRITICS DON’T GET THEM.”

I’ve always hated South Park. Suffice to say, this rant of Joe’s fits nicely with the title of this blog.