Smirnoff_Ice_King

joined 1 year ago
[–] Smirnoff_Ice_King@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

The GOP has truly fallen apart today. They are only staying afloat by making crazy political goals or making fake problems to distract from the real problems.

Because you know- rising poverty, inflation, healthcare infrastructure all come secondary to culture war which is the real problem today /s

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

Because they forced the balance of the Supreme Court to be a 6-3 conservative majority and overturned stare decisis and Roe for political gain. Basically they saw they can’t win democratically so they used the judiciary to overturn rights that way.

[–] Smirnoff_Ice_King@alien.top 2 points 1 year ago

The episode mocks both sides of the culture war because it’s just two regards fighting each other. Eric is a paranoid racist panicked about Kathleen Kennedy making his friends all diverse women who lets her live rent free in his mind sending 12,000 hate letters a day.

Woke Execs/Kathleen Kennedy/Disney are pandering hacks who are too lazy to write good diversity and instead rely on cheap race swaps of the same character and make them gay for money

And then there’s the normal people over the bullshit. Some don’t like pandering because it doesn’t make sense but don’t hate diversity (Kyle) and some don’t care at all (Sheila). And some get distracted from the failure of things like capitalism/billionaires and resort to blaming Kathleen Kennedy for everything (Randy)

[–] Smirnoff_Ice_King@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Where are the libertarians in this? I need to know where I stand

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

No you see South Park doesn’t have a theme or a point. They’re just telling fart jokes and owning the libs/cons. /s

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

No. Not really. Because throughout the entire episode they had maybe one scene about a fake trans athletes dominating women. That gets hyperfixated on.

While an entire plot and ending that gets conveniently overlooked where the board girls demonstrate they are able to put Heather Swanson and Cartman in their place in the girls only activity.

[–] Smirnoff_Ice_King@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not enough chick. Not enough gay. Not enough lame. Too patriarchy

 

I find it interesting how so many people see Kathleen Kennedy portrayed as the outright bad guy in the special. Going off the reactions from anti-woke youtube- who all talk about how she got OWNED, DESTROYED, OBLITERATED.

I interpreted the Cartman Kathleen Kennedy as an obvious horror- the woke monster that lives in the anti-woke crowd’s mind rent free personified. The clear final boss. Someone who only cares about diversity at a surface level- “put a chick in it and make her gay” just because. A Disney exec not interested in exploring the good side of diversity but in pandering alone.

But the normal Kathleen Kennedy actually seemed to be portrayed quite sympathetic even if naive. Sure she started the cycle by making movies with diversity, but it was Eric’s hateful reaction that created the woke/anti-woke cycle. Her intention was portrayed as good (“I just wanted to make good entertainment, but then you get piles of hatemail”), but misguided while Eric’s was portrayed as an extreme reaction. 10,000-13,000 hate mail letters? Those letters all complaining not about the writing or story, but about inclusion of diverse women- cause Eric is clearly portrayed as racist/sexist.

Down to the final city woke encounter. It points out all woke and anti-woke content is just a series of extreme reactions. Kathleen reacting to a few bigoted persons, who she thought was thousands of individual bigots. Who she thought she could fix by pandering more. While Eric fumed harder as she pandered more. They really created each other. Kathleen was reckless with franchises, while Eric was a bigot too passionate about those franchises.

Yet, I can’t help but feel Eric has more blame here in his portrayal. If he had complained about things like the storylines being bad like Kyle who rants about the laziness of the multiverse. Instead rather than resorting to complaints about diversity itself. Could it have been avoided? Would wokeness have gone full pandering if anti-wokeness hadn’t shown the ugliness of society?

Edit- Also people this is clearly about her character portrayal in the show’s message more than her real life blame. The regular her is portrayed pretty sympathetic in her goals. She even gets an apology from Eric of all people.