![]() ![]() Yet, the 9/11 issue has become a classic. Even today, many people rope off the events of that day-along with slavery and the holocaust-as too sacred to provide material for comedy. Two weeks after 9/11, the Onion did the unthinkable: published an issue dedicated to satirizing the event. However, it is the universal nature of South Park’s targets that makes it such a worthy modern satire. In other words, by criticizing all, none are held responsible. In retrospect, it seems impossible to overstate the cultural damage done by SOUTH PARK, the show that portrayed earnestness as the only sin and taught that mockery is the ultimate inoculation against all criticism Recently, South Park’s humor has come under fire from feminist Dana Schwartz who criticizes it as a show, “whose message is: both sides are equally terrible so the only correct thing to do is nothing, while mocking it all from your position of intellectual superiority.” Overuse will make you grow bored of an otherwise fun word. I was already well acquainted with swear words: this was the time I had been not just told, but shown the need for restraint. Perhaps the idea of a second-grader watching such smut would distress many parents, yet I credit that episode with helping me develop a more mature attitude towards vulgarity. The episode was “It Hits the Fan,” in which the citizens of South Park began to overuse a certain scatological four-letter word until a plague descends upon the town: as it turns out, curse words are actual curses and their overuse summons demons and diseases from the underworld. My introduction to South Park came in second grade.
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