At Long Last The Blue Checkmark Brigade Is Trying To Cancel South Park (LOLLLL)

Nate2/14/2020 2:06 PM

Right now South Park is trending on Twitter and this tweet is the reason why. Miss Dana Schwartz, who I'm sure is nice and means well, seems to think South Park ruined lives, a generation, and caused irreversible harm to the world by making a few poop jokes and having Scott Tenorman eat his own parents.

I don't even know what this part means- "mockery is the ultimate inoculation against all criticism". I just...it's so hard to put into words how dumb this is. The entire premise, the entire point of the show is to mock. To show how dumb some things are, whether it be pop culture, politics, or you know, completely insane social justice warriors. And I'm probably more moderate than most when it comes to social justice. I think there's times where it can be useful or important. But uhhhh...this ain't one. We're talking about "cultural damage" done by a cartoon where an episode revolves around Cartman painting Jennifer Lopez on his hand and pretending it's really her?

She goes on...

In real life I just took a big, deep breath. I...I've typed two dozen or so blogs discussing this type of thing. We can't just get mad at every comedy because it's not the comedy *we* want. That's not how it works. And who is saying South Park is this beacon of intelligence?! Oh I guess she watched this episode and made that conclusion?

Fuck sake now I started reading replies from other Blue Checkmarks and I'm wondering why Twitter was invented in the first place? So everyone could ruin everything we all like?

My god the irony. I bet Robert would be a lot happier if he cared a lot less about pretty much everything. This is so fucking meta it is folding into itself like origami.

These takes are up there with "Trump ruined everything, Barstool ruined everything" except we've now put South Park in instead of Barstool.

Imagine Twitter in South Park's heyday? It pains me to even think about. Back before everyone was so up their own assholes they could take time just to breath and realize not everything that is a tiny bit off the straight and narrow needs to be whined about.

That's why I'm so jealous of everyone not on Twitter. I have friends in Oklahoma and I was there a few years ago and we were watching the OU game and there were about 20 of us and I was the only one on my phone during it. And it made me realize people just like watching things without other people telling them what to think about it. They didn't need that wacky joke about the game to enjoy it, they just…enjoyed it. Made me want to throw my phone into a lake.

The good news is South Park is South Park and Matt and Trey are much too rich to care. They aren't going to change at all, and if they are told to change, they'll just go create something else awesome somewhere else (maybe another movie? Please? It's been a while!). So I think South Park is safe from faux outrage Twitter cancel culture and all these Blue Checkmarks sniffing their own farts.