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Author, fanwriter, trash bandit, queer geek feminist, dork. Jack of all pronouns, mxtress of none. Yells about hockey. Aussie in the US.

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    1. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows Mar 21

      South Park started in 1997, when I was eleven. It's *still airing*. From 1998 - my first year of high school - onwards, my entire peer group was obsessed with it, such that I ended up being talked into watching it, too. And I often enjoyed it, because I was 12/13 -

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    2. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows Mar 21

      - and because, even though it was a cartoon, it was a cartoon with SWEARING that also talked about political issues from time to time, and that made you feel like the show was treating you as an adult, instead of (as was actually the case) feeding you shitty propaganda.

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    3. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows Mar 21

      The Chinpokomon episode? We were obsessed with that while still, at the same time, being fans of pokemon! And because of that, me and my white friends happily copied the joke about Japanese men having small penises, complete with racist accent. Because Chinpokomon was funny!

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    4. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows Mar 21

      South Park is what paved the way for other, shitty shows like Family Guy, cementing the cultural idea that anything could and should be mocked; except, of course, the idea that awful white dudes should be centered in the narrative. THAT shibboleth was, funnily, never challenged.

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    5. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows Mar 21

      It's bitterly ironic that a generation of shitty centrist/libertarian dudes who got their start watching South Park are able to "take a joke" about anything EXCEPT the idea that "lol chill it's just comedy" is a shitty position. They learned to mock everything except themselves.

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    6. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows Mar 21

      That's the lingering cultural toxicity of South Park and its successors: the total inability of those who think they mock & challenge everything equally to see that "everything" excludes themselves and the value of their (often violently bigoted) mockery.

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    7. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows Mar 21

      It's why you get conservatives now who'll call liberals snowflakes for making a basic political claim like "X group deserves human rights," then with zero irony melt down over cashiers saying "happy holidays!" instead of "Merry Christmas!". No self-awareness.

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    8. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows Mar 21

      I'm struggling to articulate this point concisely, but it's something so fundamental to the seeds of alt-right bullshit in the modern world that I think it's important to get the wording right, so bear with me.

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    9. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows Mar 21

      The type of toxic comedy embodied by South Park & others says, "Nothing is sacred!" while quietly but purposefully sanctifying straight white maleness. This taught too many straight white men that being straight white men isn't an identity, but an objective, neutral viewpoint.

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    10. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows Mar 21

      "Identities" are for non-objective, non-neutral groups whose insistence on being non-objective and non-neutral - that is, not straight white men - is their problem. "Identities" can't understand why laughing at them is funny, because they lack neutrality and objectivity.

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      Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows Mar 21

      There's more I could say on this, but I'll leave it here for now. I just... get really tired, sometimes, when I think about how much vitriol and bullshit ultimately stems from the unconscious assumption that a particular group shouldn't or can't be criticised.

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        2. Lady Menopause Needs Justice for Tay Jefferson‏ @LadyMenopause Mar 21
          Replying to @fozmeadows

          @threadreaderapp unroll por favor

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        3. Thread Reader App‏ @threadreaderapp Mar 21
          Replying to @LadyMenopause

          Hello, please find the unroll here: We don't talk enough about how the stated morals of classic South… https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1373879303268536322.html … See you soon. 🤖

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        1. An ordinary dame‏ @AnOrdinaryDame Mar 22
          Replying to @fozmeadows

          Your detail made me think, thx. I always viewed SP & FG as intentionally ironic, mocking cruelty, w the danger being that some might miss the social crit, & would instead find the literal cruelty amusing. My family stopped watching FG when a dev disabled character was mocked.

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        1. Juan Sanmiguel‏ @RainbowWar71 Mar 22
          Replying to @fozmeadows

          I gave up on it early on because I got tired was trying "Hey we are cynical, laugh at us". I never could get into McFarlane shows which is why the the quality of The Orville surprised me.

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        1. Scott Baradell‏ @DallasInbound Mar 22
          Replying to @fozmeadows

          Really good points.

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