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Super unpopular opinion, I can’t relate to South Park anymore, even the old episodes I used to love are kinda painful. Maybe I’m old. But the old episodes of the Simpsons still hold up, the old South Parks feel out of touch to me
Havent watched SP but humor changes.
There was a time when joking about racial stuff was funny.
In the earlier days a german sweet called "Schaumkuss" (marshmallow glazed with chocolate) was called a "Negerkuss" (transl.: Nigger's kiss)
At the time it was appropiate.
Culture and humor is always changing. You could make as many terrorist jokes as you wanted but queue 9/11 and suddenly you had to be careful about the target group and culture.
Europeans would maybe smirk at 9/11 or terrorist joke (maybe not even those since the IS attacks in Paris, Brussel, etc.) but an american would knock you a peg deeper into thr ground.
Also this all depends on the context.
I think that's true but South Parks humour has also changed over time. That's the nature of satire - it lampoons human folly and vice, including the ideas of offence and moralising which are so often borne out of hippocracy.
You mention taboo topics like 9/11 as if it's a no go area but actually that has been a rich source of comedy and satire due to the level of hippocracy displayed around it. The hippocracy of Uber patriotism, religious nationalism, racism (you mention people having to be careful about the target and culture of jokes, but many groups found the exact opposite after 9/11 - certain ethnic and religious groups were all tarred with the same brush, particularly in the US) and more. Even the idea of self censorship out of fear of causing offense. Some of this is being replayed right now with a contemporary conflict.
South Park is in a similar tradition to other satire such as Private Eye in the UK, or The Onion, or various other TV shows. South Park is just a sometimes more extreme version more willing to be deliberately offensive. But satire moves with the times like any other type of humour.
I believe you mean hypocrisy?