But panderverse Cartman calls panderverse Kyle a heathen as he’s obviously supposed to be South East Asian of some flavor. And Prime-Cartman calls Prime-Kyle a Jew several times before the swap. I think after that it doesn’t make sense to use the slurs as they don’t know about the cultural backgrounds of Kyle in their alter-universes.
So an interesting thing I’ve noticed over the years as I’ve gone back and watched the whole series thru a couple times - The show starts out as the kids representing GenX/early Millennials during their childhood, the parents being the boomer generation, and grandpa thrown in for the Greatest/Silent generations. As the show has moved forward, the show has blended the GenX/Millennial life into the Boomer parents as sort of a satire of how so many GenX/Millennials complain about Boomers, yet make the same mistakes and do the same stupid shit that the Boomers did when we were kids. While doing the same with the kids, by mixing in GenZ w/ the GenX/Millennial satire to comment on how GenZ is pretty much the new “Millennial” and how us GenXers and Millennials complain about the same dumb shit that Boomers complained about us for. It’s an interesting meta-commentary on aging over the decades.
Yeah, honestly, if this is supposed to be a “redemption arc”, it’s most likely only to set us up for him to fall even further. The hard part of making a character into a “monster” of a person, is that eventually it’s less shocking when they do something horrifying. If you make people think “oh, hey, maybe he’s turning his opinions around, and being less of a dick” and then slap them with that shocking behavior again, it lands much more effectively.