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Thread ID: 11815 | Posts: 8 | Started: 2004-01-09
2004-01-09 04:41 | User Profile
So much for South Park being un-PC. I sterting watching it tonight and the subject matter was how "Token" the token black student is smart, lives in a huge house, has successfull rich parents, and wears clothes from Armani Exchange while everyone else has to wear "J-mart" clothes. The black is the brightest student in the class and the other students claim that it is because his family is rich.
I was so disgusted I turned it off.
While you do have wealthy blacks in big houses, they are always either entertainers of government enforced affirmative action executions. They kids are still dumb as shit and get bad grades.
2004-01-09 05:16 | User Profile
[QUOTE=heritagelost]So much for South Park being un-PC. [/QUOTE]
The details you gave didn't give me enough info to know which episode. What was the plot?
There's nothing un-PC about blacks being poor. In fact, until recently, it was un-PC to show blacks as rich. TV shows and movies that did it were accused of blaxploitation, which includes "failing to depict in the films the realities of Black life." Blacks are suppose to be shown as victims struggling against an oppressive white society. South Park doesn't do that.
By making Token's black family rich, the creators of South Park prevent Token from being seen as a victim of the working class white community. That comes in handy when the show is addressing racial issues.
For example, an eposide called "Cartman's Silly Hate Crime" is about when Cartman gets accused of commiting a hate crime against Token after a small playground incident. (If I remember right) Cartman is tried and convicted of a federal hate crime and locked up. Cartman's sort-of friends go through most of the eposide having no clue that all this fuss has to do with Token being black. When they figure it out, they free Cartman by convincing the governor how hypocritical hate crime laws are. That must be un-PC as I've never seen any other entertainment show take a clear stand against hate crime laws.
If Token were poor and the whites well-off, then in the minds of brainwashed viewers, it would have been harder to make Cartman the victim rather than Token, thus undermining the show's criticism of hate crime laws.
2004-01-09 07:10 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Happy Hacker] In fact, until recently, it was un-PC to show blacks as rich. .[/QUOTE]
Where have you been?!?! Ever heard of the Cosby Show? UPN has a whole night of shows depicting Negroes living in huge high society houses with lots of money. One of the networks has a new show about rich Negroes that let a poor unfortunately single white mother and white son move in with them.
2004-01-09 14:57 | User Profile
[QUOTE=heritagelost]Where have you been?!?! Ever heard of the Cosby Show? UPN has a whole night of shows depicting Negroes living in huge high society houses with lots of money. One of the networks has a new show about rich Negroes that let a poor unfortunately single white mother and white son move in with them.[/QUOTE]
The height of blaxploitation bashing (PC attacks against shows and movies that didn't show blacks as oppressed victims) was in the 60s and 70s, by the 80s it had mostly faded.
The Cosby Show also escaped charges of blaxploitation because it was a black-only show (other than a dumb, mute, chubby white kid as a semi-regular). There are no whites in the Cosby world to oppress blacks. It pretended to show how prosperous blacks would be if it weren't for whitey oppressing blacks.
Other black shows with rich blacks make sure to always remind viewers that the rich blacks have overcome oppressive whites. For example, in the Fresh Prince where poor Will Smith goes to live with his rich uncle, the Civil Rights struggle is commonly referenced in the episodes.
Compare to South Park. It's not a black world that blacks can be prosperous because there are no evil whites around. There never is the suggestion that any rich blacks faced any oppression to overcome. There merely is the fact that the black family is rich and thus isn't oppressed.
There is an episode where Cartman starts his own band and he needs band members to out compete with a band started by his sort-of friends. He goes to Token's house and tells Token to get his bass guitar and meet him at a certain time for band practice. The rich Token tells Cartman that he doesn't have a bass guitar. Cartman tells him that he does, just check the basement. All blacks have bass guitars. Token laughs at the idea. Then later, Token, looking a bit disappointed, shows up at practice with a bass guitar and tells Cartman that it turns out he did have a bass guitar.
Cartman then tells Token to play some bass riffs. Token replies that he has never played the guitar and knows nothing about it. Cartman assures him that because he's black he has a natural ability to play riffs. Token says that's nonsense. Token tries and out comes some bass riffs. Token gets a disgusted look on his face and says "D*mn it."
2004-01-09 15:33 | User Profile
Well, I admit that South Park is nothing like network tv. I mainly don't like South Park anymore for the same reason I don't like Crankyankers and the Man Show. All the sick low brow humor.
I like the Daily Show and Tough Crowd a lot.
2004-01-09 17:57 | User Profile
[QUOTE=heritagelost]Well, I admit that South Park is nothing like network tv. I mainly don't like South Park anymore for the same reason I don't like Crankyankers and the Man Show. All the sick low brow humor.[/QUOTE]
I would love a Politically Incorrect, a paleoconservative version of something like Frasier, a high-quality production with fairly clean and intelligent humor.
I think Sourth Park avoids being cancelled for "hate" because of it's low brow humor and egalitarian offensiveness. The un-PC acts are just accepted as low brow vulgarity rather than being hateful.
Crankyankers and the Man Show have no redeeming un-PC value.
2004-01-09 19:30 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Happy Hacker]I would love a Politically Incorrect, a paleoconservative version of something like Frasier, a high-quality production with fairly clean and intelligent humor.
I think Sourth Park avoids being cancelled for "hate" because of it's low brow humor and egalitarian offensiveness. The un-PC acts are just accepted as low brow vulgarity rather than being hateful.
Crankyankers and the Man Show have no redeeming un-PC value.[/QUOTE]
This sounds like a job for Captain TelevitzKiller...
2004-01-11 02:38 | User Profile
That show you're referring to had a wild twist. You should have struck around and saw the rest of it.