MarsAtlas said:
Josh123914 said:
Not in the way you want them to.
I don't know where you're getting this idea that I want them to do an episode on "x" subject matter. They can do an episode on whatever they want. They can't, however, say that they are indiscriminate in who and what they make fun of. That is untrue. They are entitled to their show and they are entitled to say what they want on their show but they are not entitled to their own facts. Nobody is entitled to their own facts. They are not indiscriminate in what they comment on so they do not get to say that they are without being called out as liars. When somebody says that they are doing "x" and they know they are not doing "x" they are lying.
You're confusing saying their claim that they're willing to offend anybody, with the concept of them going out of their way to offend
everybody.
And how many of those people watch South Park?
Well lets re-examine your claim
"and something most of the target demographic is unanimous on?"
You can:
a) take the data I provided as relevant
b) provide your own specific data regarding a significant data size of the South Park's specific target audience in 2005 and their personal take on climate change, showing that they are unanimous as that is the standard you are setting
or c) back off on your claim
Do you reject the idea that Comedy Central has a predominant demographic of young liberals? And you know you're never going to find the poll at (b) that you're looking for. Submit one to /r/Southpark if you care so much.
When was the big event wherein the Prominent Creationist set out the manifesto for how and why Climate Change exists? For a charicature to work, South Park needs a celebrity. Without that, they just have a mean-spirited strawman, which is not funny.
Donald Trump, the guy who you think its going to become President of the United States. Ben Carson, the guy who is currently trailing right behind Donald Trump. Many, many sitting senators, sitting congresspeople and presidential candidates in the United States between 2005 and now. This [http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/nov/17/climate-change-denial-scepticism-republicans-congress] is the very first search result for "climate change denial politician".
You didn't learn about them through their Climate Change skepticism.
You'll also notice that they're running for President, and the Climate Change episode that would dispell all of your allegations is unlikely to happen around this lot because Ben Carson believes the Egyptians stored grain in the Pyramids (among other nonsense) and Donald Trump is a successful businessman that they would never insult. Climate Change is not unique enough for them to make an episode about.
Because, as said in the interview linked above, Climate Change has been done a million times, and making fun of somebody like Al Gore (who was fading into irrelevance before he came out swinging with AIT) is way more fun for them.
While I know this is a matter of personal taste I can't see Al Gore being more deserving of ridicule than politicians sitting at the federal level who don't know how ice cubes work. *shrug* Personal taste though.
Because the politicians are same shit, different day. Al Gore has been explained several times in this thread (I think even to you) that his doomsaying made him a fun charicature, since after he lost the election, he was irrelevant if not for the Inconvenient Truth.
Are we even watching the same show? Have you watched the first two episodes of just this season? If you have, you'll know why the creators have issues with Jenner. Not even Jenner, just PC culture in general.
But there's nothing wrong with her. She's a person. Thats about it. I mean the transgender has a big beef but thats not what is being acknowledged by them.
You're right. She's a person. A fallible person. People should have a right to express opinions beyond blind praise about a flawed person regardless of their gender.
Oh this is too funny. There is no way you actually watched that episode.
I've watched every episode of the show. I know whats going on.
I know some diehard fans of the show that haven't seen every episode over the past 18 years, but I won't say I don't believe you.
10 years have passed, and Climate Change isn't front page news. Deal with it.
What news are you paying attention to?
The type that covered ebola for about 3 weeks, and then moved onto something else despite people still dying in the thousands for months afterwards. You can't expect people to talk about the same thing all day long without any exciting developments.
Goobacks is satirizing illegal immigrants, but once again they avoided using any nationality by making the immigrants future humans who are a mix of every ethnicity.
That link you provided is evidence of your own misunderstanding. Those people in the meeting are there to be laughed at and made fun of, because they are dumb hicks brainstorming ways to get rid of the immigrants. The global warming suggestion was done to kill the Goobacks off, not a serious plea to stop Climate Change.
Yeah, I know. When they want to get rid of the goobacks they try to come up with ways to ruin the future so that the goobacks won't exist to travel back in time in the first place. Somebody says, paraphrasing just slightly, "how about we bring about a major climate shift to make future planet inhabitiable?" He gets called a "fucking retard" for suggesting that such a thing is possible.
The show creators literally just used a character as a mouthpiece to call people who suggest the possibility of a dangerous climate shift "fucking retards". How could they possibly be any more clear? I know it wasn't a serious plea. It was the exact opposite, and that was my point. Honestly, not being condescending, are you even understanding what I'm saying? What can I do to make this more clear?
No they didn't. Those hicks are renowned for being uneducated idiots, "They tuk ur jerbs!"?
The humor stems from someone in the crowd suggesting they allow Global warming to get completely out of control, and he gets shouted down by the Alpha Hick, who obviously doesn't believe in Global Warming.
If anything that scene runs against your argument, because it made a comic relief idiot one of the only characters to take a stance on Climate Change, and it was to oppose it.
Stop jumping to conclusions.
Tom Cruise has told follow workmates not to diss Scientology, the woman who voices Bart Simpson has warned the Simpsons writers not to ridicule her religion after she converted.
Yes, why would people who make television shows satirizing things ask somebody to not satirize their religion after the religion has been receiving public ridicule? Hmmm, why would they ask their colleagues to not jump on an ongoing bandwagon to bash their religion?
Its not cultish brainwashing when somebody ask their colleagues to not ridicule them on national television. You may disagree with that behavior but its not the result of being in a cult.
They knew signing up to these shows that satirizing things would be on the agenda. The Simpsons and South Park have routinely made fun of religion, in fact the Simpsons has devoted entire episodes just to sectarianism. I mean telling co-workers on a comedy show not to speak ill of your new religion is already kind of red-flaggish, but then all the accounts from ex-Scientologists say that the church would punish believers who allowed Scientology to be made fun of. For somebody that has watched all the episodes, you seem to think it would just be in Stone and Parker's nature to viciously attack Chef's VA the way they did. If they were that malicious, why did you insist on still watching all the episodes?
Furthermore, if it was the case of them just victimizing Chef's VA, wouldn't that validate the assertion that they are willing to target anyone?