Haven’t watched the newest special, but I’m assuming Cartman is representing overly sensitive “anti-woke” people

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    the points i got from the latest special:

    Forced diversity is lazy, boring and senseless

    People who call this laziness out are not racist right wingers

    There still are racist ring wingers who make opposing woke stuff their whole identity and its cringe

    Kathleen Kennedy is annoying also but she is made to be a scapegoat for industry wide issues.

    I feel like it was clear that Cartman was representing the racist right wingers who made anti wokeness their whole identity, meanwhile the other kids were normal folks who cannot make sense out of some characters suddenly genderswapping and preaching about social issues.

    Once again, another episode reminded me why i love South Park.

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      I feel like it was clear that Cartman was representing the racist right wingers who made anti wokeness their whole identity, meanwhile the other kids were normal folks who cannot make sense out of some characters suddenly genderswapping and preaching about social issues.

      Stan and Kyle literally said they didn’t care about race-swapping.

      The point of them was that the issue isn’t diversity, the issue is just lazy writing.

      Miles Morales was used as their focal point because he is a race-swapped Spiderman who were in storylines that did preach about social issues. They like Miles because he’s actually written as a real character instead of a cash grab.

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            Its funny how insanely accurate SP is sometimes.

            That’s how Trey and Matt have always been so successful. No matter how nucking futz, insane, or seemingly chaotic South Park gets, they always seem to have their finger on the pulse of whatever issue they are parodying, and they seem to understand the actual issue very very well. This lets them then take it in a completely crazy direction on the surface but with a completely sane and accurate undertone or point.

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          Because Miles Morales isn’t “Black Spider-Man” he is Miles Morales, who happens to be a black Spider-Man. If they just made Peter Parker black, it wouldn’t be the same.

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            There’s a difference This is once well written

            Is the other issues a lazy cash grab

            That’s not Promoting Diversity It’s bullcrap

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          Nowadays he is but originally in the ultimate comics run miles replaced peter after his death. There where a few fans who did react quite explosively to that not helped by the fact that he was arguably not written as well as he was later on and didn’t have any prior legacy like a character like kid flash becoming flash did he was kinda slapped into being spider man after the death of a popular version of spider man.

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      Ah perfect balance, can’t wait to watch it later, seems like Matt and Trey made another banger satire