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Here is the true message of this special since both the left and the right are too stupid to understand:

Pandering is a lazy form of storytelling, but sending hate to Disney doesn't solve anything. If anything, it gives them a reason to do more pandering. Cartman is DEFINETLY NOT the voice of reason of this special. Stan and Kyle are. Their cordial speech on why pandering doesn't work is Trey and Matt's voice being heard. Stuff like Miles Morales is a great way of representation because it is innovative and a complete new spin on a classic character. Race swapping is just lazy.

I hate how the left wing only focus on the part where Cartman says "complaining about woke stuff is kinda lame" at the end, and use it as the basis of what they think the message of the special is, as if it is in favour of their side only. Disliking pandering isn't a right wing viewpoint, and I hate how people think it is. They missed the point.

I also hate how the right wing think that Cartman IS the voice of reason, thinking that the whole episode supports the their side only and that sending hate to Disney is the right way to go about it. It is annoying to see conservatives act like the whole episode is for them. They have also missed the point.

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[–] JFlizzy84@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

I feel like a lot of people are straw manning the shit out of this episode

I see MUCH more people complaining about how nobody understood it than actual people misunderstanding it

It seems like there’s a very firm consensus that the episode attacked both sides and appealed to the common sense answer to the ‘culture war’: instead of pandering to the cultural zeitgeist in order to achieve a bare minimum, shallow, surface level of diversity, focus on telling good stories and the socially progressive cultural zeitgeist will take care of diversity for you.