Stop this generational shit! It is not boomers versus xennials versus zoomers or whatever other bullshit some consultancy is peddling to drum up business. It is the elite super-rich who are doing this, who are lying to the masses, who own the media outlets, who have every politician and police department on payroll. Fucking stop.
There are puritan twats and corrupt assholes in every generation yup.
what is this shit???
I liked the shows because I thought swears were funny. And then I grew up to realize that centrist libertarians are useless fucking cunts.
Even i wasnt raised on South Park. It’s a fucking dumb show.
People aren’t raised on adult shows.
oh, yes they were.
Some are, some arent.
okay boomer
Who cares what other people are offended by? This is a trash take.
Well, my Christian parents would never let me watch either of those shows.
I actually don’t like Family Guy. I prefer Dilbert. I can hate the creator all I want, but the show itself molds with my particular profession. The creator can rot for all I care.
Dilbert was great. Surreal Office before The Office
Dilbert’s message was just vague and short enough that people could just insert their own message into it. The cartoon had some good moments in it, but you could also see some problems as well, but the Bob Bastard episode or Dilbert’s take on charities.
Uhh…Family Guy and South Park are both Millennial. Gen Xers are Seinfeld and Simpsons.
Every generation since Gen X has been Simpsons. They’ve been on for 35 years.
Yeah but nobody younger than a Zillenial watches the show.
To.be fair, the Simpsons hasn’t really been on in a long time.
Glory years were 1 to ten, then 11 to 20 was ok ish. The Simpsons does not now nor has not counted in a long long time.
People keep saying the last few seasons have been a lot better than they’ve been (though not as good as the golden years). I’m long past caring, of course.
There was a fucking candlelight vigil on my college campus for Kirk last night. It was some Jim Jones looking shit. People brought fucking Boquets of flowers and laid them out. Like stop showing empathy for this twat, he literally said it himself.
they had a vigil at my city hall. i personally know about 1/3-1/2 of my town and did not recognize a soul there (i had to bicycle by). now i’m not saying these are paid outside agitators, i’m just saying i’ve trimmed my social tree damn well.
Boomers weren’t raised by South Park and Family Guy, what are you talking about?
Large chunk of MAGA are gen xers.
I still think most Gen Xers were not in the target demographic of South Park or Family Guy, especially when they were hitting their stride several years after they premiered. Younger Gen Xers, sure, but not the ones born in the 60s or early 70s
Yep, South Park’s not on the list of products targeted specifically at GenX.
If you were wondering, here’s that list:
i see what you did there.
The “rad” generation turned out the same as the one before.
Because those shows believe in “moderation” and only attacking the underprivileged with any real heat. Those are both massively bigoted shows that support racism and discrimination as a difference of opinion but fighting against it as the ultimate sin.
Have whatever opinion you want about the shows, but it’s disingenuous to say “only attacking the underprivileged with any real heat”. The poor and underprivileged Scientology, Catholic Church, Christianity as a whole, Kanye West, Donald Trump, etc. I think it’s fair to say those topics got raked across the coals. Sure, maybe if you count everything up, it’s lopsided, but South Park 100% has torn into topics other than underprivileged people. They literally are in the middle of a storyline where Trump is the new Saddam Hussein.
South Park has some hits, but they also have some huge fucking misses.
Their episode on trans people where transitioning is compared to mutilating yourself into being a dolphin is pretty fucked up. Their episode where they directly compare the “persecution” associated with saying the n-word to being black is pretty fucked up. “Lol it’s okay to say ‘f_ggot’ is okay because we get to redefine it as ‘obnoxious person” is pretty fucked up. Those are definitely episodes where they made the deliberate choice to punch down.
I like South Park a lot. Back when you could stream every episode for free, I watched it on loop to fall asleep. But they have had absolutely fucking garbage takes. See also the episode about smoking - at least Penn and Teller have somewhat acknowledged that their 14 year old libertarian contrarian take about smoking was fucking stupid.
The f slur was 100% used like that in the 90s. I’m not saying that no one used it in a bigoted way though. In my school growing up, there was a lot of that word and if you thought something was dumb, you said it was gay. It wasn’t until way later that kids, likely as adults, reflected on how messed up that was and what the words might mean to others. So maybe it’s really regional, but I understood where that episode was coming from because I 100% used that word in school in the 90s and there was not a single time that I was ever using it with hate. And it was wrong, but we were ignorant kids. The dolphin thing, well I got nothing for that. I thought the n word persecution thing though was meant to be making fun of people that actually felt that way. That those people were the joke. But maybe I’m off as that’s just my interpretation.
They’re also not really offended. They act that way because it gets what they want.
Exactly right. These people are looking for an excuse to get offended on somebody’s behalf so they can gang up on somebody and be shitty with them.
There is a reason everyone hates the aggrwssive polirically correct and that is it.
And it hurts the entire flank being associated with them
This is the case. Actual offense would indicate actual morality. What we have here is support everything that makes Trump and Trump supporters look good and frame everything else as criminal.
Maybe the world has just gotten shittier
I love that the title displays like crap because OP used asterisks and Lemmy interpreted it as markdown!
using boost
Where do I file a bug report for Boost?
