How ‘South Park’ Perfectly Captures Our Era of Outrage

Re:How ‘South Park’ Perfectly Captures Our Era of Outrage by danharaj on Tuesday December 08, 2015 @09:46PM (#10701593)

Generic in the same sense as this quote:

“In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.” -Toni Morrison

So maybe white, but possibly not. It is a personal decision. It is a statement about one's personal politics where one sees their identity as either apolitical or that it ought to be apolitical. Perhaps even that identity politics itself should not be a thing. A politics of generic identity.

I said 'men' because I was referring to Stone and Parker. Their politics epitomize genericity and a politics of being apolitical which is functionally a reactionary politics.

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Re:How ‘South Park’ Perfectly Captures Our Era of Outrage by oldmanjay on Tuesday December 08, 2015 @10:40PM (#10701769)

You're taking quite the issue with the comedy stylings of a tv show that has long taken shots at anything that takes itself seriously. I suspect you take your politics very seriously indeed, but that doesn't make them actually serious. If you learn the distinction, you'll have less agita over entertainment.

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