Was the episode made to mock people who get mad about pandering or no, I keep seeing post from r/saltierthankrayt that say people aren’t getting it. Plus their kinda mean.
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The episode mocks both sides of the culture war because it’s just two regards fighting each other. Eric is a paranoid racist panicked about Kathleen Kennedy making his friends all diverse women who lets her live rent free in his mind sending 12,000 hate letters a day.
Woke Execs/Kathleen Kennedy/Disney are pandering hacks who are too lazy to write good diversity and instead rely on cheap race swaps of the same character and make them gay for money
And then there’s the normal people over the bullshit. Some don’t like pandering because it doesn’t make sense but don’t hate diversity (Kyle) and some don’t care at all (Sheila). And some get distracted from the failure of things like capitalism/billionaires and resort to blaming Kathleen Kennedy for everything (Randy)
Look I love South Park, I’ve been watching it for decades, but there’s one thing that basically every South Park subject has in common so often that it’s kind of boringly predictable: Matt and Trey are almost always mocking everyone on every side of every issue for getting too invested in it.
A lot of the time, they’re right to do so, because everyone’s acting silly. Sometimes I think they are making a mistake to choose the centrist perspective, but that’s a function of my beliefs. I do think some things are worth getting fired up about. But at the end of the day they’re a comedy show and the goal is to laugh at everything.
They’re never going to be on someone’s side 100%. They’ve established that.
People who overanalyze things like South Park can come off sounding mean. They want to be “correct” and find a hidden meaning in everything.