Here is the true message of this special since both the left and the right are too stupid to understand:
Pandering is a lazy form of storytelling, but sending hate to Disney doesn’t solve anything. If anything, it gives them a reason to do more pandering. Cartman is DEFINETLY NOT the voice of reason of this special. Stan and Kyle are. Their cordial speech on why pandering doesn’t work is Trey and Matt’s voice being heard. Stuff like Miles Morales is a great way of representation because it is innovative and a complete new spin on a classic character. Race swapping is just lazy.
I hate how the left wing only focus on the part where Cartman says “complaining about woke stuff is kinda lame” at the end, and use it as the basis of what they think the message of the special is, as if it is in favour of their side only. Disliking pandering isn’t a right wing viewpoint, and I hate how people think it is. They missed the point.
I also hate how the right wing think that Cartman IS the voice of reason, thinking that the whole episode supports the their side only and that sending hate to Disney is the right way to go about it. It is annoying to see conservatives act like the whole episode is for them. They have also missed the point.
I don’t even think it is truly about anything to do with right wing / left wing in the larger scheme of things. The bigger issue is and always had been that ANY complaint leveled against Disney for their poor performances lately had been labeled as extreme right bigoted hatred.
In other words what we’re seeing is, even the general apathy portrayed by characters like Stan and Kyle (the common fan) being lumped in with the few extremists (cartman) in order to attempt to paint some type of picture of this massive gang coming after Disney unfairly.
When you read reviews by common movie goers, the negative reviews tend to mostly be about boring, badly written, redundant storytelling… And of course every so often you’ll find some lunatic making off the wall comments. However, reading the media’s response to these reviews, you’d get the impression that all of it is racist trolls. We’ve actually turned a corner recently where Disney has been doing so poorly that even the media isn’t bothering to cover for them any longer.
The other side of the coin is that you’ll get people on the most progressive side of the political spectrum that do nothing but boast the merits of Disney’s diversity driven agenda all over social media. The mystery is why all this support isn’t translating to success at the box office. The answer is either that all these people talk a big talk but don’t actually support the product… Or their numbers are so few that they can’t actually make a difference.
The people who you will see claiming this episode for their side are a drop in the bucket in the larger scale of things.
Ultimately the creators of Southpark have made their stance on what they think of Disney as a whole abudnatly clear regardless for years well before this episode even aired which some people seem to currently be totally oblivious to.